Mirror Love

Author: Zhang He
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Publish Date: 2005-08-30
Features: Urban market culture is another battle that is unfolding globally. It is a battle without front lines, continuous and ever-changing, brought about by the relentless nature of lifestyle consumption, which brings endless tension. Beauty salons, gyms, saunas, massage rooms are the battlegrounds for the body, followed by slimming, tattoos, eyebrow and eyeliner shaping, breast implants, plastic surgery, and even gender reassignment. Then comes the straight "catwalk," the "beauty pageants" of endless favor, the carousel-like idols, a constant stream of scandals, street rock, and street dance. Urban market culture seeps into every corner of our lives. This "Urban Market Culture Series" presents the scenes of urban fashion culture while maintaining a vigilant, skeptical, and critical perspective. It reveals the cultural politics of control and domination behind these market cultures, exposing the commercial interests and various "beauty traps" hidden behind the "aestheticization of everyday life." This is the contradiction of modernity, and also the dilemma that contemporary people find hard to overcome.