Despite my expectations of Dove abandoning its Campaign for Real Beauty, the brand actually reinforced it’s mission with this video: Dove Real Beauty Sketches. The video is a profound viewing experience, and shows how unrealistic and harmful our self-perceptions truly are.  Sketch artists draw how women describe themselves and then compare their results with drawings that the [...]

One of the most beautiful things is art that bravely defies convention.  For the past few months, a number of friends in the biz and I collected and published culture creators’ (e.g., brand strategists, artists, producers, creatives) points of view on good examples of brand bravery for TED’s Ads Worth Spreading Brand Bravery contest.  We [...]

I’ve been reading, posting and tweeting a ton about the HBO special, About Face, which interviews the models of the past.  One of the comments that struck me was from Isabella Rossellini.  Because of her age, she has lost her currency while her younger daughter, model, Elektra, has it now in spades. And yet, as I [...]