This indicates that people were being commodified even before they were willing to sell themselves in order to advertise products. (Sandel 2012)[footnoteRef:6] [6: Mark Sandel, ed
This indicates that people were being commodified even before they were willing to sell themselves in order to advertise products. (Sandel 2012)[footnoteRef:6] [6: Mark Sandel, ed
This commitment and the audit results could be communicated through the organisation of a press conference, to which the media representatives would be invited, and where they could also ask questions. The focus on the company should fall on openness and transparency (Ace, 2012)
In my formulation, 'knowledge' and 'information' are the tools and materials of creativity. (Florida, 2004) It is in this aspect that entrepreneurs in the creative industries management play such a huge role in the 21st century
Many new designers fail because they have impressive artistic skills but very limited business skills. (Torres, 2004) My experience in working for others has aided me, but, more so, my ability in helping another create his own business and my capacities for resilience, with-it-ness, and daring, enable me to believe that I have the required capacities for success
People are normally accustomed to ignoring the effect that popular culture has on them, claiming that they filter the information they receive and that they avoid negative information. However, given the magnitude and the efficiency with which popular culture manages to influence individuals, it is extremely difficult for one to identify when the data that he or she comes across is meant to persuade them in favoring matters that they would normally not (Aoyagi, 144)
Eyes, hair, and skin modifications stand as a top priority for an aspiring Asian artist, as it is virtually impossible to succeed in the entertainment industry without following a recipe that guarantees triumph. Consumerism is primarily responsible for this tendency, as it virtually dictates fashion and goes as far as having certain individuals reinvent themselves for the sole purpose of being more affable to the masses (Beech)
Ethnic appearance is more important than it might seem and people in Japan seem to be well aware of this. They want to look less Asian and more like the perfect people that they are presented with in the media (Frazier)
Contemporary society perceives Japan as being formed from a mixture of both Occidental and Oriental elements. The Japanese are impressive through the indiscrimination that they put across, as they manage to live in a community that preserves a series of traditional features and concomitantly welcomes innovative and debatable influences with no hesitation whatsoever (Mostow 224)
At the heart of any cultural studies methodology lies the deconstruction of images and products as interpretative texts. Cultural Studies allows us to study "objects as systems rather than as the simple product of authorship," while culture is a site where meanings are "generated and experienced," and become "a determining, productive field through which social realities are constructed, experienced and interpreted" (Breward, 1998, pp
Fashion and Identity The following statement is indeed true: "Fashion provides one of the most ready means through which individuals can make expressive visual statements about their identities" (Bennett, 2005: 96) as we have studied time and again throughout this class
This passage on hip-hop artists and fashion presents us with a new area of discussion: how fashion as a means of expressing one's identity is impacted by celebrity culture. As it has been for many decades, fashion is well supported by celebrity culture with actresses, tv presenters, and the wives of footballers being the people who are scrutinized (Gibson, 2006)
As this paper has demonstrated, clothes and fashion don't just allow one a certain level of social distinction with which to connect their identity, they are also used as a means of asserting one's inclusion or popularity within a given social group. "To follow a fashion is to imitate the norm so that outsiders (such as those wearing sundresses) feel uncomfortable while the outsiders enjoy the feeling of inclusion" (Dant, 1999: 87)
This major connection between fashion and identity has an intense impact on fashion consumption. Identity is something which is highly open to influence and which can adapt and be influenced by the changing times: identity is not neutral (Edwards, 2011)
Rather than identifying with the many black Americans in this country who are rampantly marginalized and who male middle-class or lower-middle class incomes, these hip-hop artists embrace and embody luxury, as a means of distinguishing themselves from their peers, and of attempting to celebrate their distinction and success. This is comparable to when the zoot suit became all the rage for African-American men in Harlem and Chicago in the 1940s (English, 2007)
Fashion and the connection with identity can also manifest as a means of demonstrating one's differentness. Thus, in this manner, one dresses differently than the norm as a means of expressing one's own uniqueness; once the masses start to copy this particular mode of style, the fashion no longer becomes fashionable and desirable (Entwistle, 2000)
Thus, in this manner, one dresses differently than the norm as a means of expressing one's own uniqueness; once the masses start to copy this particular mode of style, the fashion no longer becomes fashionable and desirable (Entwistle, 2000). Thus, fashion in terms of identity can be expressed with this level of duality: it can at once be used as a means of inclusion to a desirable social group: this is often when fashion is used in connection to class, something which is nearly inescapable in terms of fashion (Kaiser, 2014)
Fashion as a means of presenting one's identity is particularly when it comes to hip-hop culture and rap artists. For example, the 1990s marked the period when hip-hop artists started becoming better compensated for their work, rappers started their own production companies and fashion lines: money started pouring in and was quickly spent (Suddreth, 2009)
Lynette Pone McIntyre, senior market editor at Lucky magazine, notes that today's consumers really care where about the origin of the clothing, the same way they care about the origin of their food. They are seeking healthier choices for themselves, and they are concerned about their "carbon footprint," meaning the resources they consume as well as the resources needed for production of the things they buy (El Nasser, 2013)
They are seeking healthier choices for themselves, and they are concerned about their "carbon footprint," meaning the resources they consume as well as the resources needed for production of the things they buy (El Nasser, 2013). The fashion industry hopes to cash in on consumers' growing environmental awareness by labeling their clothes "green," even when the production processes and materials used have not changed much (Phelan, 2012)