How The ‘Rule Of Thirds’ Helps Make Men Look Taller

Not content with reverse-engineering ‘how to dress rich’ and nail ‘denim on denim’, TikTok’s newest collective fashion obsession is an old old convention from the world of visual arts — the rule of thirds.

Succinctly described, by none other than Adobe, as a “composition guideline that places [one’s] subject in the left or right third of an image, leaving the other two thirds more open”, the rule of thirds has been practised in a wide range of visual artforms for…