Every day is a holiday

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