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I couldn’t have put it better myself.  “I really love this piece by Barbara Kruger. It makes me think a lot about how fashion imagery (and really all commercial imagery in general) is painstakingly constructed in order to appeal to our aesthetic and sexual selves and how in postmodernity nothing is quite removed from capitalism. Which is fine and well in one sense because I love soft leather gloves as much as the next fashionista, but ultimately what Kruger questions is the empty nature of the pleasures promised. How fitting for someone who used to work in the art department of consumer magazines!” -Deeply Superficial http://fashiontheory.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-are-seduced-by-sex-appeal-of.html

I couldn’t have put it better myself. 

“I really love this piece by Barbara Kruger. It makes me think a lot about how fashion imagery (and really all commercial imagery in general) is painstakingly constructed in order to appeal to our aesthetic and sexual selves and how in postmodernity nothing is quite removed from capitalism. Which is fine and well in one sense because I love soft leather gloves as much as the next fashionista, but ultimately what Kruger questions is the empty nature of the pleasures promised. How fitting for someone who used to work in the art department of consumer magazines!”

-Deeply Superficial

http://fashiontheory.blogspot.com/2006/09/you-are-seduced-by-sex-appeal-of.html

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