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8 Jan

They Were, They Are: Culture News to Watch in 2023

2022: What a weird 12 months, indeed. It was the 12 months we discovered the term “nepo babies” (and debated their validity), the 12 months we passed time on Wordle and the 12 months we debated if Harry Styles really did spit on Chris Pine in Venice (something that definitely was not on WWD’s 2022 Bingo card). Celebs and fashion folk alike rallied around crypto only to have it blow up of their faces, and lots of users debated leaving Twitter after Elon Musk’s rocky acquisition of the social media platform. It’s hard to assume a time once we weren’t aware of Julia Fox and her penchant for a barely there fit, yet it was only in early 2022 when the “Uncut...

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7 Jan

Is self-confidence culture helpful, or a late capitalist ploy?

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Is self-confidence culture helpful, or a late capitalist ploy?

Confidence has been hijacked and sold back to us, distracting us from changing anything outside of our own self-esteem The story of Kat Hernandez is a parable of our times. The Euphoria character, played by Barbie Ferreira, starts off as an insecure teen who, over the course of the season one, overcomes her body-image issues and finds power through engaging in online sex work. A triumph of our current model of empowerment feminism, body positivity and self-love. Once we revisit Kat in season two, nevertheless, things aren’t going as well for our teen dominatrix who’s in a decidedly more vulnerable position: lying on her bed in a state of self-loathing. “Kat hated herself,”...

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1 Jan

How culture has modified since Christina Aguilera’s 2002 hit

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How culture has modified since Christina Aguilera’s 2002 hit

To mark its twentieth anniversary, the singer has updated her ‘Beautiful’ music video – here, we speak to the director to learn the way much, and the way little, beauty expectations have shifted Christina Aguilera’s “Beautiful” is an iconic music video. Released in 2002, the song was the second single from her image-shifting album Stripped, a raw soulful ballad which followed the attention-grabbing first single “Dirty”. With lyrics centred around insecurity, self-esteem and inner beauty, the video shone a highlight on the people affected by society’s strict beauty standards, and people outside of and rejected by the mainstream. Touching on themes from eating disorders and body image to sexuality, the video won a GLAAD Media...

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21 Dec

Forces in Fashion, Design and Culture: A Take a

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Forces in Fashion, Design and Culture: A Take a

While the collective mourning that followed the death of Queen Elizabeth II in September was incomparable, the realms of fashion, beauty, interior design, architecture, photography, politics, media and retail each lost some towering figures, who helped to accumulate their respective industries. Leading designers who died in January included Nino Cerrutti, 91, who was credited with creating the primary deconstructed jacket for men, and Manfred Thierry Mugler, a multidisciplinary talent who helped define ’80s power dressing and launched the phenomenon of celebrities-as-models, who died at age 73. Fashion also said farewell in August to Issey Miyake, a standout for his cutting-edge fabrics and bestselling perfumes, who died on the age of 84. Miyake was one among the primary Japanese designers to indicate...

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