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The vulnerability suggested by “artistic nude” that represents women from the male perspective is opposed to the power of “nudes,” which defies the norm and reinforces women’s control over their own image and sexuality. Selfies created and shared online are valuable. Now more than ever there is the opportunity to build the visual culture of tomorrow from a new perspective — the female perspective.
Feeling the need for freer and more significant activity, and perceiving the new consumer-focused landscape, ad makers start to deny the age of excess. But if consumerism is reaching its end, what is advertising supposed to dedicate itself to? The answer is that the tug of war will be between two schools: one that wants to sell more and the other that wants to sell better.
Today there a lot of talk about gender identity, but there also are identities linked to social and economic classes, race, consumption, nationality, sexuality, and many others. There is no such thing as a single identity, but instead a puzzle that ends up creating what we cal the “SELF”: different identities that end up segmenting and framing us. To emancipate human beings it is necessary to reevaluate everything we do not consider a determining factor for the construction of identity.
Inclusion and diversity are no longer a desire of some, but a necessity for all. The growth of policies that foster female inclusion, training, and empowerment, alongside the explosion in female entrepreneurship, has weakened this invisible barrier and promises to shatter it for once and for all
The challenge of design is to maintain relevance in a saturated world. Who needs excess? More than just a trend, it is a matter of responsibility. New creators propose innovations that predict the desires of the future and inspire the traditional market.
A fast fashion item may be more similar to a film than you would expect. Titles overflow and movie theaters work in a mechanical rotative system: the next movie is right around the corner, there is no time for reflecting on what you just saw. Watching a film or not is deeply connected with today’s world emergencies.
As we have access to more things, we create a more fluid identity, one more compatible with ourselves: we are not what we own, but what we access
The way to analyze behaviour influences and consumption doesn’t necessarily follow the social income pyramid’s top-down logic anymore.
When ownership no longer is synonym of success or security for many girls of this generation, consuming less becomes a way of expressing oneself in the world