Beverley Luckings PR: Rankin Forces London Fashion Week to Face Up To Its Limited View of "Beauty" The Portrait Positive - Steven Tai/Changing Faces

New Rankin portraits of women with disfigurements to feature
in exclusive book to challenge the fashion industry’s limited view
of “beauty”. Launch event to be hosted by Gail Porter
— New book, #PortraitPositive, features women with disfigurements,
marks, scars and conditions to challenge the status quo
— Ambassadors from charity, Changing Faces, were dressed by
fashion designer Steven Tai and shot by world renowned
photographer, Rankin, and feature in the book
— TV presenter Gail Porter hosts the book launch event to support
UK charity Changing Faces
Tuesday 25 September, London: The fashion industry will be
brought face-to-face with its narrow standards of beauty through
a unique collaboration between world-renowned photographer
Rankin, designer Steven Tai and the charity Changing Faces.
The Portrait Positive project, conceived by Stephen Bell, challenges
perceptions of beauty through a series of striking images of 16
different women with visible facial and bodily differences, shot by Rankin
and dressed in designs by Steven Tai.
The Portrait Positive images have been collated into a book of the same
name, designed by Carter Studio—proceeds from the sales of which will
go to support Changing Faces’ work across the country. TV presenter
and fashion blogger Gail Porter will launch the Portrait Positive book on
Tuesday 25 September at a celebratory event in support of the campaign,
and the charity. The book will be available to purchase on the Portrait
Positive website as well as select stores, boutique and art spaces across
the UK.
Changing Faces is the leading charity for 1.3 million children, young
people and adults in the UK who have a medical condition, mark or scar
that makes them look different. Approximately one in 111 people in the
UK have a significant visible facial difference, despite being largely absent
from representations in fashion and the media.