Begin researching and posting your ideas, observations and experiences on the above themes and how you see these issues in evidence within the fashion industry. Have fun - set yourself a photo brief, write a critical review, draw, write, shoot, blog.... you can post exhibition reviews, street photography, sketches and of course, what you spot at the international fashion weeks in September. Your blog should be personal and professional, showing your critical response and evidence of whether you think the fashion industry is open-minded and ethical in its representations of age, gender, sexuality and body shape. 

The power of the brand has increased due to new technology and digital platforms which can reach a mass market instantly. Were as in the past they had to wait for their catwalk shows and campaigns to be featured in magazines months later.

These images are the final images that were selected for our college's exhibition as part of the All walks beyond the catwalk celebrating diversity within individuals. Diversity comes in many ways for example body shape; catwalks stereotypically only feature very very skinny models suggesting that this is what 'beauty' looks like when in reality these body shapes are unnatural and unachievable by you or I. Diversity also comes in the form of ethnicity, another stereotype of the average model is a skinny white girl. For our model we wanted to celebrate how beautiful skin colour is whatever colour it is. We used Beth as  a model. We chose two outfits which were beautiful bright colours to engage with the idea it should be about the clothes and the individual. Other examples of diversity celebrated with fashion photography was age with groups using models of a variety of ages such as "hip hop grannies" which was a photo shoot based on clothes from the 80s hip hop era featured in programmes such as the fresh prince of Bel air. They had ladies in their 70's and 80's rocking outfits next to college students of 17!