eCREATIVE
campaign push. Selected comments will be
part of a short documentary that will be
submitted to film festivals later in 2016.
EMME agrees consumers can have a huge
impact on efforts to achieve more diversity in
the fashion industry. “We mindlessly buy so
best images they can with all their
consumers in mind, including ethnicity,
body size and age,” said EMME. “I loved
seeing Ashley Graham in Lane Bryant's
#PlusIsEqual campaign found in subways
and on buses and Teen Vogue shouting
out its support of #DropThePlus in their
Emme works with design students in the “Fashion Without Limits” Program.at Syracuse University.
many products that get in the way of our joy
and happiness, that we perpetuate all these
myths,” she said. “If we start writing letters
to advertisers saying, ‘I want you to show
more people who look like me or I will stop
buying your products,’ that would get their
attention.”
In addition, executives at corporate
conference tables making decisions about
images in advertising, design, and photo
retouching “need to approve and show the
November 2015 [issue]," EMME said. In
addition, corporations taking stands can
connect with celebrities in their own
campaigns. “That’s a great way to push
lasting change.”
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