The Institute of Art and Ideas | How the beauty industry is destroying us | Jessica DeFino | FULL INTERVIEW @TheInstituteOfArtAndIdeas | Uploaded August 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
Jessica DeFino, “the woman the beauty industry fears the most" (The Sunday Herald), talks cosmetics, physical attraction, and bringing down the beauty industry.
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Jessica De Fino is an award-winning beauty reporter and critic (New York Times, Sunday Times, Vice). She writes the beauty advice column Ask Ugly and publishes a weekly newsletter The Review of Beauty which “basically gives the middle finger to the entire beauty industry” (HuffPost). Join her as she discusses what beauty really means, why we need to divest from the beauty industry and how we should divert from the toxic beauty standards perpetuated by the industry. We discuss cosmetic colonialism, the connection between the climate crisis and the beauty industry and how the skin microbiome effects attraction.
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Jessica De Fino is an award-winning beauty reporter and critic (New York Times, Sunday Times, Vice). She writes the beauty advice column Ask Ugly and publishes a weekly newsletter The Review of Beauty which “basically gives the middle finger to the entire beauty industry” (HuffPost).
00:00 Introduction
00:40 How can you have beauty without the beauty industry?
01:27 How can we understand the difference between beauty and appearance?
03:07 What is beauty to you?
04:52 How can we be more attuned to collectivism in beauty?
07:01 How do we divest from beauty when there is the collective pressure to buy into it?
09:38 Do you think it’s on celebrities to push back against beauty standards?
11:02 How has colonialism affected beauty standards?
13:17 Why is beauty radical to you?
14:32 How does attraction differ from beauty?
17:19 How do we overhaul patriarchy, both in the beauty industry and beyond?
20:13 Do you think Substack can challenge the publishing industry?
22:15 How do you balance working for magazines that push narratives you work against?
24:07 What has been most rewarding to you as a culture critic?
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Jessica DeFino, “the woman the beauty industry fears the most" (The Sunday Herald), talks cosmetics, physical attraction, and bringing down the beauty industry.
What can you say on SubStack that you can't write in Vogue?
Watch a debate on the politics of desire at iai.tv/video/the-politics-of-desire?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=the-politics-of-beauty
Jessica De Fino is an award-winning beauty reporter and critic (New York Times, Sunday Times, Vice). She writes the beauty advice column Ask Ugly and publishes a weekly newsletter The Review of Beauty which “basically gives the middle finger to the entire beauty industry” (HuffPost). Join her as she discusses what beauty really means, why we need to divest from the beauty industry and how we should divert from the toxic beauty standards perpetuated by the industry. We discuss cosmetic colonialism, the connection between the climate crisis and the beauty industry and how the skin microbiome effects attraction.
#substack #beauty #cosmetics #makeup #makeuptutorial
Jessica De Fino is an award-winning beauty reporter and critic (New York Times, Sunday Times, Vice). She writes the beauty advice column Ask Ugly and publishes a weekly newsletter The Review of Beauty which “basically gives the middle finger to the entire beauty industry” (HuffPost).
00:00 Introduction
00:40 How can you have beauty without the beauty industry?
01:27 How can we understand the difference between beauty and appearance?
03:07 What is beauty to you?
04:52 How can we be more attuned to collectivism in beauty?
07:01 How do we divest from beauty when there is the collective pressure to buy into it?
09:38 Do you think it’s on celebrities to push back against beauty standards?
11:02 How has colonialism affected beauty standards?
13:17 Why is beauty radical to you?
14:32 How does attraction differ from beauty?
17:19 How do we overhaul patriarchy, both in the beauty industry and beyond?
20:13 Do you think Substack can challenge the publishing industry?
22:15 How do you balance working for magazines that push narratives you work against?
24:07 What has been most rewarding to you as a culture critic?
The Institute of Art and Ideas features videos and articles from cutting edge thinkers discussing the ideas that are shaping the world, from metaphysics to string theory, technology to democracy, aesthetics to genetics. Subscribe today! iai.tv/subscribe?utm_source=YouTube&utm_medium=description&utm_campaign=the-politics-of-beauty
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