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☆ Gen Z's Dream of Becoming Influencers Is Getting Harder Thanks to AI
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-09 | by ( Clem De Pressigny | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +13 min

Advancements in AI tech have given birth to an industry of AI influencers, and major companies are beginning to show interest in their far more cost-effective approach to marketing. AdvertisementMiquela's success didn't spark a virtual-influencer revolution, but that was largely because of cost — human influencers were still cheaper. She sees AI influencers being used to provide a deep level of information, support, and guidance on brands and products. Do AI influencers really stand a chance at building trust with an audience? A study in the European Journal of Marketing found that consumers were just as likely to follow an AI influencer as a human influencer but that they didn't trust the AI influencer as much.

Persons: Zers, Gen Z, influencers, wannabes, — they're, Nikita Baklanov, Julia Broome, Baklanov, Broome, she'd, it's, Miquela Sousa, Lil Miquela, Instagram Miquela, Calvin Klein, Imma, HypeAuditor, Euronews, who's, Jenny Dearing, Dearing, ChatGPT, chatbot, Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Haidt Organizations: Stanford, UGC, Prada, Companies, Meta, Instagram, AIs, Oxford, Advertising, Air, European, Marketing, Air Canada, Google, Alpha Locations: strategize, TikTok, Antarctica, Air Canada

☆ Who was Kate Harrington, Truman Capote's protégé featured in 'Feud' season 2, and what happened to her?
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-19 | by ( Eve Crosbie | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

"Feud" season two shows a softer side to Truman Capote through an unconventional relationship. In reality, however, Capote and O'Shea — whom Capote remodeled into Katy Harrington — began their relationship under slightly different circumstances. AdvertisementTruman Capote treated Katy Harrington as his adoptive daughter and protégéKate Harrington and Truman Capote in 1977. AdvertisementKate Harrington talking to Gloria Swanson at a Studio 54 party in 1978, while Truman Capote rests in between them. After Capote's death, Harrington named her daughter after the authorFollowing Capote's death in 1984, Harrington moved away from modeling and established herself as a stylist and producer.

Persons: Truman, Capote, Kate Harrington, —, Ryan Murphy's, Truman Capote, Tom Hollander, Kerry O'Shea, Ella Beatty, John O'Shea, Russell Tovey, Kerry, what's, O'Shea, O'Shea —, Katy Harrington —, Harrington, Katy Harrington, protégé Kate Harrington, Ron Galella, Harrington's, Capote —, Wilhelmina Cooper's, Kate, Gerald Clarke, Richard Avedon, Gloria Swanson, Ryan O'Neal, Oscar, Tatum O'Neal, Ryan, Diana Vreeland, John McTiernan, Daniel Boczarski Organizations: Service, The Telegraph, New, UN, New York Magazine, Vogue Locations: Manhattan, New York, New, Toronto, Sheridan , Wyoming, Santa Fe , New Mexico

☆ Lila Moss copied her mom Kate Moss' see-through silver dress 30 years later
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-05 | by ( Amanda Krause | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

The look mirrored a see-through outfit her mom Kate Moss famously wore in 1993. AdvertisementLila Moss is the spitting image of her mother Kate Moss — and she's happy to be. Ian West - PA Images/Getty ImagesThe outfit also not-so-subtly referenced a dress famously worn by the 21-year-old's mother Kate. Kate Moss models for Donna Karan in New York City on April 2, 1993. Fairchild Archive/Getty ImagesRepresentatives for Kate Moss, Lila Moss, and Nensi Dojaka did not respond to a request for comment.

Persons: Lila Moss, Kate Moss, —, Kate Moss —, — Lila, Nensi Dojaka, Ian West, Kate, Moss, Liza Bruce, Jimmy B, James Brown, Corinne Day, Dave Benett, Lila, it'd, It's, Mike Marsland, Donna Karan Organizations: Service, British Fashion Council, Elite Model Agency, Elite, British Vogue, Fairchild, Getty Locations: London, England, Albanian, Soho, British, New York City

NEW YORK (AP) — “I always know, because I've lived life long enough, you can change things," Bethann Hardison said at the start of "Invisible Beauty,” a new documentary focused on her more than five decades in fashion. “She has changed the way beauty is defined.”Hardison co-wrote and co-directed the film with Frédéric Tcheng ("Halston," “Dior and I”). TCHENG: I didn't know who Bethann was when I was asked to do a short film when she received the Council of Fashion Designers of America’s Founder's Award (2014). She’s really changed the way fashion looks. I think the fashion model might be here to stay, but I have my foot on the clutch, just in case.

Persons: — “, I've, Bethann Hardison, Hardison, ” Tracee Ellis Ross, “, ” Hardison, Frédéric, “ Dior, Frédéric Tcheng, hadn’t, America’s Organizations: Garment District, Girls ' Coalition, Diversity Coalition, of Fashion Designers Locations: “, Versailles, ”, New York, London, Paris, Milan, Brooklyn

CNN —Demolition of the Los Angeles area home where Marilyn Monroe spent her last months has been put on hold by Los Angeles City Council, following a last-minute motion aimed at designating the house a Historic-Cultural Monument. Baron/Hulton Archive/Getty Images Norma Jeane Mortenson, who later changed her name to Marilyn Monroe, was born in 1926 in Los Angeles. Hulton Archive/Getty Images She was in several movies in 1950, including "The Asphalt Jungle" and "All About Eve." Hulton Archive/Getty Images Monroe wins a trophy at the "Star Of Tomorrow" Awards in Los Angeles in 1952. Bettmann Archive/Getty Images Monroe and former Yankees baseball player Joe DiMaggio leave city hall after their wedding.

Persons: Marilyn Monroe, Traci, Baron, Norma Jeane Mortenson, Gladys Baker, Marilyn, Claudette Colbert, Monroe, Jim Dougherty, Grace McKee, Grace, Michael Ochs, Norma Jeane, Emmeline Snively, Richard C, Miller, Donaldson, they're, Ben Lyons, Lyon, Theisen, he'd, Mira Sorvino, Frank Cronenweth, Peggy Martin, Shutterstock Monroe, Phil Moore, J R, she's, Johnny Hyde, Nancy Lee Andrews, you'll, Earl Leaf, Ray Anthony Band, Shutterstock, David Wayne, Christina Newland ., Kardashian, Amber Tamblyn, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Jane Russell, Joe DiMaggio, Amy Greene, Monroe's, Matty Zimmerman, DiMaggio, Joe, it's, Ella Fitzgerald, that's Ella Fitzgerald, Ed Feingersh, Elizabeth Winder, Ellen Burstyn, Arthur Miller, ullstein, He's, Harold Clements, Queen Elizabeth II, Laurence Olivier, Sugar Kane, Billy Wilder, I'm, Christina Newland, John F, Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, It's, Cecil W, Marilyn Monroe's, ”, “ Organizations: CNN, Los Angeles City Council, Department of Building, Safety, Hulton, Michael Ochs Archives, Model Agency, Century Fox, Columbia Pictures, Columbia, West Hollywood, Photoplay, Getty, Gentlemen, Fox, Hollywood, Bettmann, Yankees, US, Tiffany Club, New York, Grand Central, Queen, Royal, Daily Herald, Stoughton, Alamy, Los Angeles City, Historic Resources Locations: Los Angeles, Brentwood, Monroe, West Virginia, Columbia, Warrenburg , New York, American, Hollywood, Korea, York, New York, California, Hollywood , California, New, Grand, London, England, Polyclinic, Madison

☆ Eating disorders: Olympic high jumper Priscilla Frederick-Loomis pressured to 'perform better' and lose a few pounds
▼ + stars: | 2020-10-06 | by ( Noura Abou Zeinab | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

And you’re adding on top of all that body shaming.”Loomis competes in the women's high jump final at the Pan American Games in August 2019 in Lima, Peru. Dr. Brooks is the vice president and chief clinical officer for the Renfrew Center, a US-based clinic specializing in eating disorders treatments. Over Brooks’ 30 year career, she has treated many patients who suffer from eating disorders and acted as the eating disorders specialist in the HBO film Thin. “We are really understanding more and more that eating disorders are not just a White, suburban women’s disease, and that, you know, for a long time the belief was that women of color, particularly Black women, were protected culturally from developing eating disorders,” said Dr. Brooks. Three years later she placed fifth in the high jump at the Commonwealth Games in Australia.

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