100 years in 1.5 minutes: how the ideals of female beauty changed in West and East Germany

How the ideal of female beauty changed in Hollywood: from fragile beauty to chocolate bbw

For the most part, we are used to seeing cinema as entertainment. Nevertheless, it is also a powerful conductor of ideology, ranging from political ideas to the standards of human relations. As an art that makes extensive use of visuals, cinema has actively shaped the concept of feminine beauty. However, the heroines of different eras themselves actively promoted the images they created at the "dream factory". Let's track the evolution of the ideals of female attractiveness using popular

How the standards of female beauty in Russia changed: why did they blacken their teeth, whitened with lead and other fashion trends of the past

Despite the cult of individuality, individuality and dissimilarity, modern women strive to be "no worse than others." Beauty standards are adaptive preferences imposed from the outside, but the beautiful half of humanity invariably strives to adjust itself to them. Such a desire has been characteristic of women at all times, and not only now, when the canons of attractiveness are changing at the speed of light

100 years in 1 minute: the best video on how the ideals of female beauty changed in South and North Korea

North and South Korea today are complete opposites. Divided after 1945, the countries developed in completely different ways, despite their territorial proximity and a common past. These differences are especially noticeable in how ideas about female beauty have changed in the DPRK and the Republic of Korea

100 years in 1.5 minutes: how iconic male images of the 20th century changed

Recently, videos "100 years in one minute" have become very popular on the Internet, reflecting the beauty standards of different eras inherent in a particular country. This time, a group of makeup artists chose not a girl as a model, but a guy, and using his example, they displayed iconic male images, from the 1910s to the present day

24 women of James Bond, or how the idea of female beauty has changed in 50 years

"James Bond" is one of the most successful and long-lasting epics, in which great attention is paid to the charisma of the heroes, and Bond himself in the first place. But to embellish the adventures of the determined playboy, the ladies next to him had to be no less charming. And these 24 images of James Bond women are a good anthology of types of genuine beauties of their time