Wednesday, December 1, 2010

BLOG 3 (2)-FASHION JUNKIE














In this photo you can clearly depict the two females snorting the fabric as if it was a drug. The photo notes fashion junkie in the center of the picture. In my opinion a junkie is someone that is addict to something beyond self-control. the dictation of word means one who suffers from addiction, most common refer to heroin. I find this interesting that the definition refers to heroin but clearly the women are snorting cocaine. With heroin you boil a cocaine rock until it changes to a liquid form then you use a syringe to remove the absorb it. So alone to me the title co-relates but doesn't exactly due to the drug and the term used in the photo. Note in the picture the complexion or race of the women, white caucasian. Looking at their race, ask yourself why use white caucasians in this picture using fashion as metaphor for addiction. Why aren't there any other races, do you think there more caucasian models in the business. Are caucasian women more concerned with their over all appearance, healthy or not. Do these models need meet a physical standard. I know from research that models have to maintain a certain weight i think thats something to think about. In the photo the women look "strung out" but quite frankly I would be to if I was addicted to fashion. Why fashion? Why use addiction? Is this how we see our models is this how they see themselves. Is the media or our society effecting them?I've honestly only been addicted to one thing in life and thats sports. What can being fashion junkie do for you? I think its really interested in how the picture shows the cocaine in a baggy on the same table as the women. Also how the dress is white, does this show are similar they really are? Clearly fashion must give them a new view on life, a new high but I think no one should be addicted to anything and it shouldn't have to be that extreme. I believe that some of this materialistic things are associated with love but in fact it is false love. Putting more into an object than another leaving being thats abuse on both sides.




1 comment:

  1. I can't believe that an ad such as this one is aloud to exist. This not only contains sex appeal but it references drug use as well. It clearly displays girls in the act of snorting what would be cocaine. I must say that advertisement is becoming pathetic.

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