Author: Olivia Wilcock

Popular high street store Topshop has sparked outrage in the media this month with their controversial range of scar tattoos. But, do they celebrate flaws or trivialise mental illness? Earlier this month, high street giant Topshop released a new range of ‘self-love’ accessories, controversially including a line of golden, scar-like temporary tattoos. The collection was created and designed in collaboration with Lucie Davis, a student of Central Saint Martin’s Art School, London. Davis was the winner of a competition for second year students of the school, in which they were asked to design a collection based on the words ‘women…