Every day is a holiday

Author: Zhang Huan
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Urban market culture is another battle that is unfolding globally. It is a battle without front lines, continuous, and ever-changing, bringing endless tension from relentless consumerism. Beauty salons, gyms, saunas, massage rooms are the battlegrounds for the body, followed by slimming, tattoos, microblading, eyeliner, breast implants, plastic surgery, and even gender reassignment. Then comes the straight "catwalk," the "beauty pageants" of thousands of favorites, 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 a puzzle that contemporary people find difficult to overcome.