September 2012 Issue

Claudia Verstappen
September 2012 Issue
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Editor
Letter to you by Anne Griffin ... 08
Contributors 10
Cover Story
The Real American Dream Claudia Verstappen
ContentsSeptember 2012
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John Paul and Eloise Taylor Redifine the version
Welcome to Claudia Verstappen September 2012 issue.
We love men
Fashion
Ricky Whittle, Brad Bitt, chad michael murray
Shimmery 1970’s seduction
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Fashion Director Loves..... 26 Spotlight On Fashion
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Citezens Of Humanity
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Children Waiting Parents
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Beauty
Colour Crush
Beautiful Activism
One For The Boys
Reset Your Life
Beauty Director Loves
Spotlight On Beauty
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Fantasy of Verstappen
25 Film Honours
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Silver Circle Award 2011
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Vancouver Eco Fashion Week 120
Ecouluxe London122
Now 2011 Paris
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Winter Fluffball126
Capturing The Spirit Of Hati 128
Vancouver Eco Fashion Week 120
Ecouluxe London122
Now 2011 Paris
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Winter Fluffball126
Capturing The Spirit Of Hati 128
Go Eco
The Eco-Chick Guide to Boston.. 86
Life
Peoples Profits100
Toppling Dictators102
Poverty In America
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Hati One Year Later
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Dreams For My Daughter
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Women And Warriors
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Focus
25 Film Honours
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Silver Circle Award 2011
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Vancouver Eco Fashion Week 120
Ecouluxe London122
Now 2011 Paris
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Winter Fluffball126
Capturing The Spirit Of Hati 128
Vancouver Eco Fashion Week 120
Ecouluxe London122
Now 2011 Paris
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Special Features
25 Film Honours
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Silver Circle Award 2011
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Vancouver Eco Fashion Week 120
Ecouluxe London122
Now 2011 Paris
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Winter Fluffball126
Capturing The Spirit Of Hati 128
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SADE
The past year has not been easy for Sade
Jacob. But now she is now, emerging
from hearkbreak with a new film and
new relationship. Sade Jacobs is once
again at her straight-talking worldconquering best. The Oscar-winning
beauty tells JUSTICE PICARDIE about
family harmony, fighting for causes and
getting her power back.
Photography by CONNOR PAGE
Styled by RACHEL TAYLOR
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omen on television, including
news presenters and actresses,
are “abnormally thin” and are
causing a rise in the number of
young women suffering from
eating disorders, doctors said yesterday.
A report by the British Medical Association shows
that the position has reached an “unacceptable
level” with every family doctor in the country
treating two patients suffering from anorexia and
18 with bulimia nervosa.
Doctors called for the media to show “more
realistic body shapes” to reduce the number of
deaths caused by eating disorders. The research
shows that the gap between the perceived ideal
body shape and reality is widening, as women are
generally getting larger while models, actresses
and women who appear on television are getting
smaller.
The report will be cited at the “Body Image
Seminar” at Downing Street on 21 June, organised
by Tessa Jowell and Baroness Jay of Paddington,
where fashion editors, designers and models will
discuss the pressures on young women to be thin.
Professor Vivienne Nathanson of the association,
who launched the report, Eating Disorders, Body
Image and the Media, said: “Every doctor in the
country is seeing people suffering from eating
disorders and there is a growing recognition of the
devastating consequences.
“It is a psychiatric illness with a high death rate.
Those who don’t die suffer from long- term health
problems, such as teenage girls suffering from
early onset of osteoporosis, brittle bone disease.”
The research showed that more female characters
on television are thinner than average. It has been
estimated that models and actresses in the 1990s
have 10 to 15 per cent body fat, whereas a healthy
woman has 22 to 26 per cent.
“We need more Sophie Dahls and fewer Kate
Mosses,” said Professor Nathanson. “Actresses on
popular drama and television and news presenters
tend to be thin. Whereas male news presenters
are all different shapes and sizes, female news
presenters are all thin. The pressure on these
women to be thin and conform is enormous.”
There are an estimated 60,000 people in Britain
with eating disorders. One in 10 is male but the
majority are young women.
Anorexia nervosa affects 1 to 2 per cent of women,
aged 15 to 30 in the UK. Of those who develop the
disorder, 15 to 20 per cent will die within 20 years.
Dieting is a factor in the development of eating
disorders and recent research showed that more
young girls are expressing dissatisfaction with
their body shapes; one in seven girls aged 11 is on a
diet, rising to one in three by the age of 16.
Lorraine Kelly, a presenter on GMTV, who has
made two fitness videos about healthy eating and
exercise, has been criticised for her own healthy
weight but refuses to diet. “Diets don’t work and
are not the way forward,” she said.
Professor Sir William Asscher, the chairman of the
board of science and education at the association,
said that although there was no scientific proof
of a direct causal link between media images of
superthin women and eating disorders in young
women, all the research pointed to a direct impact
on teenage girls. “In societies where there is no
culture of thinness, eating disorders are very rare,”
he said. “Increasing Westernisation has led to an
increase in eating disorders in several cultures.”
The BBC and ITV dismissed the notion that they
only represented “superthin” women on television.
“The BBC seeks to depict real life across the
board and shows people of all shapes and sizes,”
said a spokesman for the corporation. “When we
do specifically address the issue of body image
through campaigns or programmes, we put the
emphasis on health and fitness rather than body
size.”
A spokesman for ITV said there were a lot of
presenters on television, such as Dawn French,
Gaby Roslin and Lisa Tarbuck, who were not
“superthin” but were among the most successful.
Rebecca Martin, editor in chief of Jump, a
monthly magazine for teenage girls, said that
it was very difficult to pin down the media as
solely responsible for the increase in eating
disorders in young girls. “Editors can help by not
putting people who look unhealthily thin in their
magazines,” she said. “We have girls of all shapes
and sizes in Jump and try to portray normal
women but this does not mean we are anti-thin,
some girls are naturally thin.”
However, Premier agency, which represents
the supermodels Naomi Campbell and Claudia
Schiffer, said women who bought fashion
magazines featuring thin models were as much to
blame as the editors and advertisers.
“Statistics have repeatedly shown that if you stick
a beautiful skinny girl on the cover of a magazine
you sell more copies,” said a spokesman for the
agency.
Editor: Abbi Pacey
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Sade Page, Model
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£25 Tophat: H&M £9,99
Black is Back with the new rock chick style collection.
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‘I do truely feel that i’m back, I
do actually have that feeling very
strongly. I think it will probably
shift and change, as these things do
- because it does take a long time to
get your power back’
Sade Page, Model
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£25 Tophat: H&M £9,99
Black is Back with the new rock chick style collection.
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Rachel-louise..
Desiginer: Claudia Verstappen 2013 collection
Photographer: Connor Page
Location: Old railway factory, peterborough station
Constance Barter seems like an ­entirely different
person from the girl whose diary I had read, and which
is about to be published. She is about to turn 17, and
is vibrant and chatty, talking enthusiastically about
her A-levels next year and what she wants to do in
the future. She is a world away from the 14-year-old
who was starving herself to death. “I just don’t see the
point of living any more,” she wrote in the first entry in
August 2007, “I feel worthless.” By that point, she had
been in a specialist eating disorders treatment unit near
her home in Hampshire for a month. Just before that,
she had been admitted to hospital where, close to death
and delirious, she was put on a drip for a week.
about how much I had eaten, and how far I had run.”
This ­continued until she started to faint and her friends
told a teacher. In April 2007, a school ­doctor examined
her and asked if she was anorexic. “I just said no. I
phoned Mum in tears. She only saw me at w
­ eekends and
saw me eating – and said ‘That’s ridiculous.’”
Constance isn’t sure when, or why, she developed
anorexia. “It would be unrealistic to try to work
out why I had the illness,” she says now, s­ itting on a
footstool by her mother, helping herself to a biscuit, but
after r­ eading her book, in which she details the i­ ntense
struggle to eat a single piece of ­chocolate or even take a
sip of water from a plastic medicine cup, it leaves you in
no doubt that she has come a long way. An only child,
she says she had a very happy, stable childhood with
her mother, Sarah, and father, Clive. “I remember her
friends saying ‘Constance is so pretty, clever, ­popular –
why is she doing this to ­herself?’” says Sarah. There is
no answer, says Constance.
Constance was taken to see an ­ophthalmologist because
her vision suffered during fainting fits. “It sounds like
it must have been so obvious what was wrong with her,
but it wasn’t,” says Sarah. “I had never known anyone
who had anorexia and it wasn’t really on my radar. In
May, I finally begged her to tell me what was wrong.”
About one in 150 girls of 15 has anorexia nervosa,
and in extreme cases it can be fatal. There are certain
character traits that are associated with the i­ llness, such
as perfectionism and drive – both things that Constance
says she has. She was never satisfied with her straight-A
school grades and says she never felt good enough. She
started running and was soon running for her county –
once she realised she was l­ osing weight, this became the
perfect excuse to train i­ ncessantly (at one point she was
­running 25km and ­swimming 6km every week). She
was eating less and less, which was easy for her to do
without anybody ­noticing b
­ ecause she was at boarding
school during the week. “I used to dread school
holidays,” she says, “because I knew I would have to eat.
I became a really good liar and I would lie to my friends
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Sarah didn’t know what was wrong with her daughter.
“She was eating normally, as far as we knew. She was the
only one who knew what was going on and the rest of us
were in this wake of lies. She was exhausted the whole
time.” Glandular fever was mentioned, and chronic
fatigue.
Constance confessed that she hated herself and the way
she looked, and that she wasn’t eating.
She was officially diagnosed, but it was still a shock
for the family. “I still thought it was ridiculous,” says
Sarah. “We’re a family that likes food, likes eating, likes
cooking. It was sheer shock and disbelief, and I had the
naive view that anorexics don’t like their food. I didn’t
understand the illness, but once we realised that it was a
mental illness it helped us to deal with it.”
Constance was seen by the h
­ ospital, who created a meal
plan for her to ­follow at home, but it became ­impossible
for Sarah and her husband to cope. “Your normal life
grinds to a halt. She was argumentative, ­depressed,
­distraught, sometimes very, very scared. And then
she would be funny and ­brilliant, only to be worse the
next day, as a kind of punishment to herself. It was
exhausting, ­everything – t­ rying to ­support her, ­trying
to keep our ­marriage together.”
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mustard yellow lace dress £45.00,
Hat: Topshop £6,99, with matching grey woop
cut-off fingers gloves £6,50.
Jet Black suede stiletto shoes, River Island
£29,99
Stripped laced 70 denier tights to match the
shoes £5,99.
Black cotton vest £12,99 Jane Norman.
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£6,99, White gold necklace: H.Samual £45,00
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£6,99, White gold necklace: H.Samual £45,00
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cubic zone and Stripped laced 70 denier tights
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Fantasy canrival...
Photographer:Dawn Rogers Pivotal
Model: Natalie Robinson
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A
t the age twenty-two Luke Castillo
has managed to achieve a variety of
substantial roles and responsibilities
as a freelance stylist. From a humble
beginning at Barnet collage he began to
consciously acknowledge his unique perception
of the human silhouette. Luke then made the
decision to boldly enter the fashion world. By
late 2008 Luke graduated at London College Of
Fashion in Fashion Styling and Photography
with a impressive contact list under his wing. He
obtained an internship, which quickly turned
into a fulltime placement with acclaimed fashion
stylist and fashion editor of Attitude magazine
Frank Strachan. Luke worked on numerous
projects ranging from artists such as the
Saturdays, Girls Aloud and Will Young. He also
worked on The Sunday Night project as well as
travelling to France to shoot a collection story for
the magazine.
Luke
Castillo’s
new
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‘The term stylist has been loosely abused. One
merely dresses oneself and claim the title.
After assisting for the past year I realised that it is
not as glamorous and simple as it is to obtain the
Photographed: LUKE CASTILLO
name. My love for art has enabled me to discover
my styling ability and motivated my levels of
With no desire to become complacent Luke
creativity.’
turned to his budding contact list and drew the
attention of genius costume designer and founder
of British fashion label ‘Bodymap’ Stevie Stewart.
As a freelance stylist Luke has lent his services
‘My work is described as theatrical with an
emphasis on the obsession for the metamorphosis to boy Band ‘The Wanted’ with British stylist
of being.’
Luan Sampson where he has independently
taken control of the bands looks for television
programme ‘Graham Norton’. Luke has also
‘Working in commercial and art based styling as- taken on the demanding Tour world assisting on
Kylie Minogue’s ‘Aphrodite’. He is continuously
well as sticking to my convictions has guided me
onto the next stage within this fast paced industry proving to be a face to watch amongst peers.
which is to conquer my ambitions as a freelance
stylist’ Luke’s talents and passed achievements indicate
his future is firmly secured in fashion styling. His
popularity continues to increase whilst his goals
and ambitions prove to be achievable for the
Always eager to move onto the next step Luke
sort after Alison Elwin who he had graciously
hardworking aspiring fashion mogul.
admired for several years. After working
closely with her he quickly became her first
View his latest collection now on www.
assistant for UK girl band the Sugababes. Luke
fashioncapital/fashionweek2012.co.uk
began to realise the many facets of styling it
was at this point that he was head hunted by
Top Man personal shopping. Here he learnt
to commercialise his point of view, relate to
shoppers and influence the buying decision.
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LUKE CASTILLO
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white tights 20 denier £7,99.
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LCallio Shiffon peach blouse £70, Pale blue
pleatted mini skirt £39.00, plae white tights 20
denier £7.99, Ballet lace up shoes £25.50
Acylic horse necklace £12.99.
PHOTOGRAPHER & FASHION STYLIST:
LUKE CASTILLO
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tights 40 denier £8.99, Ballet lace up shoes
£25.50
PHOTOGRAPHER & FASHION STYLIST:
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Smart
meets
Casual
Fashion designer/photographer/sylish = TJ Lynch
FeroFero - Terry James Lynch
Social Entrepreneur, Image Consultant, Events
Director, Brand Manager, Web Management, Bow
Tie Designer and Fashion Editor.
Online blog documenting Fashion, Art, Music,
Lifestyle, Organised Events, and all round Fun Stuff
that is happening in the world of pop culture.
This space is to promote and critique new and
innovative ideas, projects, developments and
everything else that is fabulously fashionable, trendy
and exciting currently unfolding within the creative
industries.
Look out for weekly updates on events happening in
the capital.
Encouraging other up and coming: Bloggers,
Stylists, Make-Up Artists, Photographers,
Models, Buyers and Visual Merchandisers to add
their contributions to the site or email: terry@
terryjameslynch.com for additional information.
Find us on:
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“FeroFrero is my new brand which i strongly beleive will be suited for all types of people. due to the tailoring of perfection”,,
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“I feel my collection strongly
represents the idea of geek
being ‘chick’ by the use of
tailoring”
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