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Would You Risk Your Lives for Art? These People Did.
Painting by Nelly Toll Musings by @APosner on the @NYTimes article “Art From the Holocaust: The Beauty and Brutality in Hidden Works” If you think beauty is a luxury and not a necessity, think again....
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Why Super Bowl Fever is a Very Beautiful Thing
Like so many of us, I have Super Bowl fever. I actually don’t care about football or even enjoy watching sports in general. But my kids, especially my middle son, are buzzing with excitement. And...
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What’s Your Most Attractive Quality? It’s Deeper Than You Think
Given the nature of my posts, I absorb myself in reading and writing about beauty. While I’ve presented many theories on what makes something or someone beautiful, I don’t often share what I consider...
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Provocative Theories of Beauty: Why & How It Stirs Us
“As the force of physical attraction, beauty drives fertility, inspiration, creation, and reproduction. Beauty ricochets through the body and mind … Beauty has been the root of deep division and...
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Beauty Vloggers: A Sign of a Digital’s Much Bigger and More Powerful...
What if I told you a bunch of beauty bloggers reflects a great, new and culture-altering phenomenon? A report was just published that proves what we, in the tech business, have known for quite a long...
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As one of the world’s ugliest problems, could beauty be part of the answer?
In this week of heightened awareness of violence against women (first with the win of A Girl in the River: The Price for Forgiveness at the Oscars and second thanks to the march against violence by...
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“The inevitable dissatisfaction with one’s own appearance is the engine not...
I’m in SXSW now but before my trip, I knew I had to clean up my act before my panel. I don’t mean I had to behave like a responsible adult (the totally wrong move in Austin :)). No, I had to get...
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What do Lady Gaga, the start of spring and your bodies have in common? So much.
If you were like so many of us who witnessed Lady Gaga’s amazing Oscar performance of “Til It Happens to You,” you were moved. The song is amazing, but it’s her passion and power that make it so...
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Are We Hard-Wired to Be Attracted to the Beauty of Our Elders?
Is it me or are we finally looking at our elder beauties in a new light? Every where I look I feel like people are starting to pay attention to the beauty of the older women and men in our society in...
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Freckles, Tech & Mother’s Day: What Do They All Share?
What do Mother’s Day, freckles and tech have in common? I recently came across an interesting new beauty trend in JWT Intelligence Report’s 100 Trends to Watch for 2016. It isn’t the latest lipstick...
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Beauty, Judgements & Hypocrites: Enough is Enough
That’s a picture of me when I was about 6 months old. As you can tell I’m wearing a special shoe on my left foot. That shoe, along with a cast, straightened (well, for the most part) the crooked leg...
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Getting Up Close and Personal with the Hottest, Coolest, Ladies in Fashion Tech
Warning: This is not your typical Beautyskew post :). I’m taking a leap. For those of you who follow my posts, you know that I share my thoughts in written form. Well, for the first time, I’m going...
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Monica Phromsavanh: From refugee to serial entrepreneur. Hear her story on...
A few weeks back I announced my panel and podcasts at the National Retail Federation‘s Big Show (“Getting Up Close and Personal with the Hottest, Coolest Ladies in Fashion Tech“). I was so fortunate...
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Fashion Tech: A Dichotomy or Beautiful Pairing? Two Amazing Experts Tell It...
Last week I kicked off my series of posts dedicated to the amazing people I interviewed on my fashion/beauty tech podcast at the NRF Big Show. This week I’m excited to share with you the fantastic...
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What’s the Unexpected But Key Role of a Fashion Tech Boss? Check Out This...
Welcome to our third podcast from the NRF Big Show a month ago. For this podcast I spoke with Dolly Singh, founder of Thesis Couture, and Alison Lewis, founder of Switch Embassy. We also had the...
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Data, Intimacy & Wearables: A New Take on “We are What We Wear” And How We...
The beautiful, scary, amazing and conflicting role of data is a conversation that has only gotten hotter over the years. And now with our clothes and jewelry offering access to intelligence about us...
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“Beauty and the Beast”: A Blow to Feminism or Something Powerful For Us All?
This week we are changing things up! While the last number of posts have been about the future, i.e., upcoming fashion tech, this week I’m going to talk about something that’s been around for...
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The Role of Ugliness and the Need to Address the Topic Head On
A couple of weeks back I posted my point of view on the recent film, Beauty and the Beast. Honestly, I didn’t think many would read it too closely, let alone comment on it. Well, I was wrong. And I’m...
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Beauty in the Workplace: How We Can Embrace, Not Fear, A Multi-Generational...
Within minutes of me publishing last week’s post, The Role of Ugliness and the Need to Address the Topic Head On, I received a very interesting plea by one of the readers. He urged me to address...
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The Evolutionary Proof of the Value of Beauty’s Pleasure
Let’s take pleasure in pleasure. In case you’re feeling a bit hesitant about this, take a look at evolutionary theories to give you some extra ammo. We’ve all learned the appeal and surprising...
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