(France is still in many ways a more conformist culture than the Anglo-American one, but this is a good gesture)
And they still find it advantageous to edit their images... touch-up skin tones to make them more "generically white", bigger boobs (when most of the models have ample bosoms already), remove "flab" from elbows. And then remove nipples, because despite selling lingerie and pushing a sexy image, a cloth-covered nipple is a bridge too far.
It's a sad testament to Western perception of beauty and body norms.
https://britishbeautycouncil.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/... has (p.28) "The £7.0 billion [tax] contribution potentially supports vital public service work, and was equivalent to the salaries of 250,000 nurses and midwives"
The oldest russian fashion magazine of which I am aware is "Mod": still on the newsstand (Vol 63x) and published since the 1940's.
http://jurnali-online.ru/zhurnal-mod
https://books.google.ch/books?id=DZDCCAAAQBAJ&pg=PP211&lpg=P...
The creative for "Does she...or doesn't she?" knew her target audience: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/08/nyregion/shirley-polykoff...
I don't mean to be sarcastic, but I genuinely can't get it. What does "be comfortable with their natural selves" have to do with C19, or a dip in global production?
Beauty: 2% UK consumer expenditure (1,8% UK GDP)
Fashion: 7% UK consumer expenditure
Transportation: <14% UK consumer expenditure
(as noted only a fraction of the automobile part of this might be a more generally male equivalent of fashion)
former as given above,
latter from https://fashionunited.uk/uk-fashion-industry-statistics/(a decade ago, there seemed to be two distinct types of car brochure: those that show all the happy people inside the car, and those that show the car from the outside, with reflections avoiding any hint of the occupants)
* as noted above, even the soviets, not otherwise known for producing a wide range of consumer goods, had fashion mags.