Models as Brands: Critical Thinking about Bodies and Images

Fashioning Models: Image, Text and Industry

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 15-33

  Entwistle, Joanne ^a   Slater, Don ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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