Beauty canons

Exchange on stage between Jean MAUDUIT, general secretary of the magazine ELLE and Louisette BLANQUART editor-in-chief of the magazine Antoinette, on the image of the woman proposed by the magazines women. About the appearance and image of women, Jean MAUDUIT gives his point of view: "...the appearance and the image, it is also part of a perspective of evolution of the woman, it is important, it is part of her progress...".

Beauty canons

Interviewed on the image of women shaped by magazines, Béatrice MAJNONI D'INTIGNANO, economist, academic and author of the book "woman if you knew", gives her point on the new aesthetics of women’s bodies.

Beauty canons

Interviewed, Françoise GIROUD expresses what she considers to be the true beauty of women and what women aspire to in terms of beauty.

Beauty canons

Michèle DECLERCK, advertising, dissects the stereotype of thinness in women.

Beauty canons

Beauty canons

Interview of two young girls who share their conception of feminine beauty.

Beauty canons

Microsidewalk with women and men about cosmetic surgery. Some advise against it, in order not to lose any character, others believe it is necessary, especially for women "who have a nose like Pinocchio"...

Beauty canons

Have it or not? hair is controversial and is the subject of many treatments. Techniques are plural and sometimes expensive. On images of hair removal sessions and testimonies of women on the subject, sociologist Daniel WELZER-LANG analyses this dependence on hair removal that has conditioned the woman for a long time.