Fashion's Non-Places: Digital Complicity and Visual Codes

Autori

  • Rada Leu Zurich University of The Arts

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-5195/8586

Parole chiave:

Authenticity, Heterotopia, Internet, Body Modification, Fashion

Abstract

In the heterotopia that is the internet, fashion’s social identities and representations are constructed and mediated through images: blogs and YouTube tutorials have developed a following in the millions and are often the first stop when seeking advice, opinions or product reviews. All of these channels have a very specific language, with its own precisely defined vocabulary of signifiers.
In this paper, I would like to examine the digital beauty parlor as a place of socio-geography: at the intersection of the natural and the unnatural, of late capitalism and emancipatory movements, the disembodied avatars and live bloggers generate a sort of impersonal complicity with their viewers. Digital self-representation takes on a variety of forms, loosely connected to real places and social codes. How is this connection manufactured? What ideologies lie behind digital beautifying tools? What types of knowledge do those channels generate, how does it relate to the fast-evolving cycle of fashion? What impulses are at the source of returning time and time again to these spaces of cultural phenomena? And what kind of place is the digital beauty parlor, compared to its real-life equivalent?

 

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Pubblicato

2018-12-21

Come citare

Leu, R. (2018). Fashion’s Non-Places: Digital Complicity and Visual Codes. Almatourism - Journal of Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development, 9(9), 115–127. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.2036-5195/8586