Heathers & The Age of Innocence: Baby, Please Make A Change

July 28, 2016 / BY Fashioned by Pluche
Love is torture makes me more sure Only love can hurt like this Paloma Faith - Only Love Can Hurt Like This Our love is God. Let's get a slushie. After reading The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (first published in 1920), I couldn't help but find quite a few similarities between the novel and the 1988 film Heathers. Both stories are based on society, or better: both stories are a comment on society....

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Summer Loving, Hating & Writing | Sea You Later

July 26, 2016 / BY Fashioned by Pluche
Now, now, now, honey You better sit down and look around Cause you must've bumped yo head And I love you enough to talk some sense back into you, baby I'd hate to see you come home, me the kids And the dog is gone Check my credentials I give you everything you want everything you need Even your friends say I'm a good woman All I need to know is why? Why Don't You...

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A Historical Exploration of Body Image & (Feminine) Beauty Ideals

July 21, 2016 / BY Fashioned by Pluche
People are all the same And we only get judged by what we do Personality reflects name And if I'm ugly then  So are you So are you Sugababes - Ugly History will be the judge... At the beginning of this month a historical moment happened. I know, I know, nowadays everything is being bombarded into a 'historical moment' (I made a sandwich today #historicalmoment), but this time it truly is! "An actual historic moment?",...

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The Urge To Create: What Does It Mean To Be Creative?

July 19, 2016 / BY Fashioned by Pluche
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be  relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. Giorgio Armani   A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do. I'm going to argue that the word 'creativity' and the word 'fuck' can be seen (and perhaps used) as synonymous to one another. Mind you, not literally in the definition-sense of the word, but literally seen from a symbolic point of view. Creativity is a funny little word. It...

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THE Reality: Mrs Dalloway, D&G and Family

July 14, 2016 / BY Fashioned by Pluche
It's funny how the colours of the real world only seem real when you watch them on a screen. Anthony Burgess As famously sung by Freddie Mercury: "Is this the real life? Or is this just fantasy? Caught in a landslide, no escape from reality." But what is he on about? What is 'reality'? Well, reality comes from the Latin realitas, meaning 'relating to things'. Today reality is mostly defined as "the state of things...

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