Much of the conversation surrounding New York Fashion Week has rightfully criticized the fashion industry’s continued refusal to hire non-white models, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a long history of black supermodels rising (if briefly) to the top of the fashion world.
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Orson Welles, Most Precocious Teen Ever
Orson Welles made his first short film, Hearts of Age when he was just 19 years old.
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New Blood — Emerging British Photographers
Editors Note: This is the first in a series of posts on London teen culture, past and present, to celebrate our UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival Oct 10-13.
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20th Anniversary of Dazed and Confused
Richard Linklater’s seminal high school comedy, Dazed and Confused, turns 20 on September 24th!
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Throwback Thursday: BEAUTY
Miss Teen America started in the 1980s, but teen beauty pageants have been around for much, much longer than that.
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Drowning in Unemployment!
This effective, inadvertently Buñuel-y 1979 ad for the Scottish Youth Opportunities Programme dramatizes the effects of youth unemployment in Scotland.
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LA Teen Clubs, 1983
Adult anxiety about teen recklessness has always been in style.
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Matt Wolf on BBC’s Talking Movies
Earlier this week, BBC World’s Tom Brook profiled Teenage director Matt Wolf for his show Talking Movies.
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Remembering Macaulay
Remember Macaulay Culkin? Not the Macaulay of the “WE FORGOT KEVIN!!!”
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Throwback Thursday: PROTESTS
Teens are often better than adults at noticing injustice and taking a stand against it.