Findlay, Rosie (2019) "Trust Us, We're You": Aspirational Realness in the Digital Communication of Contemporary Fashion and Beauty Brands. Communication, Culture & Critique, 12 (4). pp. 553-569. ISSN 1753-9129. E-ISSN 1753-9137. (doi:10.1093/ccc/tcz047) (KAR id:90107)
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Abstract
In recent years, a number of fashion and beauty brands have developed promotional content that circulates an aspirational quality imbued with unstudied “cool” around their product. Despite the appeal of this conceit to tropes of the everyday, authenticity and belonging, it presents a superficially relatable ideal whilst exploiting digital media’s capacities to foster intimacy and promote a postfeminist subjectivity based on consumption.
This article examines three brands that circulate “aspirational realness” around their product: Glossier, Reformation, and Maryam Nassir Zadeh. All remediate the conventions of prior fashion media to communicate discourses of neoliberal femininity to a media-savvy consumer. Aspirational realness is thus read as a means by which consumption is both encouraged and situated as a means of self-realisation in the likeness of other aspirational “cool girls.”
Item Type: | Article |
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DOI/Identification number: | 10.1093/ccc/tcz047 |
Uncontrolled keywords: | Digital Media; Fashion; Branding; Postfeminism; Glossier; Reformation |
Divisions: | Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of Arts |
Depositing User: | Rosie Findlay |
Date Deposited: | 02 Dec 2021 14:02 UTC |
Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2023 13:56 UTC |
Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/90107 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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