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Hello Kitty is 35 years old (do you remember your juvenile bling-bling?)

Hello Kitty is 35 years old (do you remember your juvenile bling-bling?)

She was born as a Japanese cartoon character in 1974. Today, she is the icon of a multimillion industry around the globe. Hello Kitty has, indeed, grown up. What used to be an unassuming and simple cartoon character more than three decades ago is now a global phenomenon. She is now, among other things, a theme park, a TV series, and a restaurant. We [...]
Health versus Fashion: the rise of anorexia

Health versus Fashion: the rise of anorexia

Several international blogs are discussing the picture above, of a campaign of Ralphe Lauren. The discussion rotates around the excess of the use of Photoshop in advertising pictures, besides the women’s valorization more and more thin, inciting the anorexia, for instance. Psychiatrists asked the British government to take some kind of attitude [...]