Now that I finally have my magazine finished, I will be answering some very important questions relating to it in creative ways.
1. How does your product use or challenge conventions and how does it represent social groups or issues?
I answered this question in a podcast format, explaining how my magazine challenges conventions and how it represents social groups and issues.
Hi everyone, and welcome back to the Fashion-Forward 2025 podcast. Here, we delve into the background of the fashion-forward 2025 movement, how it originated, and its future developments, and address any questions you may have. Today, we will explore how the fashion-forward 2025 movement challenges conventions and represents various social groups and issues. To provide some context, I designed this magazine as a blend of beauty, fashion, and lifestyle. Inspired by renowned magazines such as Forbes and ELLE, I aim to present young teenage girls in a fashionable light while inspiring younger girls. My magazine draws inspiration from the recent trend known as the " clean girl aesthetic, “which emphasizes self-care and self-love.
Although this trend originated on social media, I embraced it throughout my magazine because it fosters a healthy mindset, healthy habits, and a healthy lifestyle- something I believe is a challenge for girls in today's world due to social media. Given the society we live in today, I advocate for body positivity and diverse beauty standards by featuring girls in my magazine with varied appearances, including different body shapes, ethnicities, and abilities that challenge conventional ideals of beauty. In the subsequent pages of my magazine, I showcase unedited photos to counteract the unrealistic beauty standards perpetuated by social media and advertising. I also highlight inspiring women to share their personal stories about self-acceptance and confidence. Throughout my magazine, I consistently feature encouraging gender-fluid fashion, breaking the stereotypes that dictate certain clothing is exclusive to specific genders. I wanted my magazine to be inclusive of all genders. Although my title is Her Era, I still included pages that portray girls in roles traditionally occupied by men, showcasing them in fashion-forward, non-traditional attire.
Another great part about this magazine that helped to break regular societal norms and conventions is that it addresses mental health and the well-being of young adolescent people in our world. Normalizing conversations about anxiety, depression, and body dysmorphia helps resonate with teenagers and helps to inform them in a creative way that these things are not taboo and can be spoken about safely. Providing self-care tips and real stories from young people navigating mental health challenges also helps to break society, norms, and conventions in my magazine. All the tips and tricks that I’ve included in my magazine help to build girls, confidence and boys’ confidence to be OK with their bodies, to help make themselves feel better and look better. I believe that looking good and feeling good is a healthy mindset that a bunch of young adolescent people should follow because it helps to build confidence, self-worth, and love.
That’s why, in Her Era, we make it our priority not to influence people to look a certain way but to brace their uniqueness and their unique beauty by giving them tips and tricks. I think that my magazine is very accepting of all aspects of beauty, as well as unrestricted to boundaries such as financial stability, as we include expensive and non-expensive options regarding makeup products, beauty products, skincare products, and dupes that all ranges of people could purchase. I think that’s something that a bunch of girls struggle with when they’re young, trying to be someone they’re not at such a young age, meaning trying to grow up so fast without appreciating the beauty that they have at their age. I included pages in my magazine that are targeted at even younger girls to help them feel comfortable in their skin and accept themselves as young women. I love the final product of this magazine and how amazing and impactful it can be in our modern-day world. In her era, we hope to continue breaking social norms as our magazine gets put on a wider stage. if you guys have any questions or would like to be featured on our podcast on Instagram, her era, remember, self-love, and confidence will lead you to success!!
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2. How did you integrate technologies-software, hardware, and online-in this project?
I answered this question through an infographic which I explained each technological aspect of the processes I used to put my magazine together. Here is a picture of my infographic.
3. How did your production skills develop through this project?
I answered this question through a canva presentation in which I went through the different aspects of my magazine, the difficulties I faced, and how I overcame them. I added pictures of the slides and added a link:
4. How does your product engage with audiences and how would it be distributed as a real media text?
I answered this question through a media kit in which I went into detail about how I would give my target audience options to include their photos, and videos, and get further access to my magazine.
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