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In “The Fashion Industry: Free to be an Individual” by Hannah Berry, Hannah emphasizes how social media especially advertisements pressure females to use certain product to in order to be considered beautiful. She also acknowledges the current effort of advertisement today to more realistically depicts of women. In addition, these advertisements use the modern women look to advertise products to increase women self-esteem and to encourage women to be comfortable with one’s image.

For example at one point the characters come across a magazine that’s titled “Hot Naked Chicks & World Report”. The fact that the magazine has “Hot Naked Chicks” makes people want to purchase it, the marketers are just using the sexual appeal to sell their news magazine. Everything from the news to cigarettes is sexualized in the 2505 society of Idiocracy. Another example of the hyper-sexualized marketing is a cigarette poster. On the poster a well built man is blowing smoke from his mouth with no shirt on. The man is looking into the camera, staring at the viewer. The poster is targeted at women. It’s meant to incise them and show them that if they smoke cigarettes that they too can have a man as well built as the man on the poster. Both the sexualization of women and men to sell products can be seen in society today. For instance Abercrombie & Fitch has been using shirtless males to sell their products for years. In fact the Encyclopedia Britannica said that “its advertising and its clothing [are] perceived by many as encouraging its target audience to adopt a sexually promiscuous lifestyle”. Abercrombie & Fitch took this sexualization to the extreme and it worked, in fact “In 2012 the company had grown to include more than 1,000 stores with annual sales surpassing $4.5 billion” (Thrasher), all of this was after they hyper-sexualized their products. Because the sexualization of products works, companies do it more

In our society today a business is not a business without an advertisement. These advertisements advertise what American’s want and desire in their lives. According to Jack Solomon in his essay, “Master’s of Desire: The Culture of American Advertising,” Jack Solomon claims: “Because ours is a highly diverse, pluralistic society, various advertisements may say different things depending on their intended audiences, but in every case they say something about America, about the status of our hopes, fears, desires, and beliefs”(Solomon). Advertisers continue to promote the American dream of what a women’s body should look like. They advertise their products in hopes for consumers to buy them, so they can look like the models pictures in the ads. Behind these ads, advertisers tend to picture flawless unrealistic woman with the help of Photoshop. In our society today to look like a model is an American dream and can be the reasons why we fantasizes and buy these products being advertised. “America’s consumer economy runs on desire, and advertising stokes the engines by transforming common objects;signs of all things that Americans covet most”(Solomon).

In her interview with Motto, Victoria’s Secret Model Erin Heatherton admitted, “My last two Victoria 's Secret shows, I was told I had to lose weight. I remember staring at my food and thinking maybe I should just not eat.” Erin, like many, was pressured by Victoria’s Secret and societal standards to get a near perfect body image. Stores and their advertisements influence how humans behave, see themselves, and think of other people. Stores can affect consumers in negative and positive ways. Victoria’s Secret, known for its quality lingerie, has also branched off into perfumes, apparel, and lotions. Their audience encompasses mainly ranging from preteen to middle aged ladies. Many of their target audience members are easily influenced by Victoria’s Secret’s advertisement strategies and sales. Victoria’s Secret at the Empire Mall in Sioux Falls attracts customers with elaborate displays, and periodic sales and erases identity by creating a false sense of normalcy.

Like the Calvin Klein ad, we are living in a society that exposes the human body to reel in the big bucks. He further pushes this fact by stating, “As ever, sex sells” (para 3). This is an important note, because we see ads, such as the above, every day. Even though this is not a new marketing strategy it is becoming more widely used, the more society buys in.

We've all seen and read many advertisements and we usually find them appealing and very persuasive. However the question is, what are they really advertising? Women are usually used for many different advertisements, not only are they used for women's clothing but also for other materials and objects. These are the ads that we look at each and every day. In, “Killing Us Softly” by Jean Kilbourne, she introduces her problem with how women are being used to advertise products. She shows us ads that she has seen where women are being used to advertise a company’s product. While our women are being used, dehumanized, and sexualized in our society, we’re going on with our life like it’s normal.

Nikee. Apple. Covergirl. Weight Watchers. Why do all these seemingly unrelated names sound familiar? That answer is simple: advertising. Advertising, a prodigious business, is a way to market a product or service to the public consumer through TV, internet, billboards, and other outlets. However, this over exposure to unnecessary and unwanted propaganda brings about personal struggles, since ads scream about the absolute desire for self impeccability while simultaneously destroying the spirits of those who listen. This industry’s image of “normalcy” often alters one’s self image. Although many see the benefits of consumer marketing, the industry’s depiction of idealized perfection reveals that manipulating people through advertisements

The reason our consumption habits have become so detrimental to the world is because we still buy into this concept of branding. As previously mentioned, many consumers will buy Nike rather than a brand less product strictly because we are exposed to it more in advertisement, and as a result, we see it more in popular culture. It is the greatest flaw in our modern day consumption habits, and the companies take advantage by altering production processes in order to benefit the brand. Companies focus on branding to give themselves a sort of identity, whether it is individualism, athleticism, environmentalism, or countless other industry personalities (Klein 1999:1). This simple idea is a problem in

The infamous Dutch men’s formal wear company Suit Supply is continually raising controversy in their campaigning. The fall 2010 campaign, accurately titled Shameless, advertised on the Suit Supply website and in the Westfield Suit Supply store windows suggests that dapper men, can score maximum attention with pulchritudinous women. The advertisement showing a male, well-dressed, looking up the dress of his female company. The company is using a “sex sells” attempt to amplify sales of suits to men. The use of women by Suit Supply in the Shameless campaign follows in the footsteps of other menswear company trying to use the sex driven mindset of men to sell clothing.

Thanks in great part to its "green" image British company Body Shop has prospered in the 80s. In the 90s the firm tried to increase its world visibility linking its image to Brazil 's rainforest and approaching the Brazilian Kayapo Indians with a program they called `Trade Not Aid. ' The association generated a barrage of free and laudatory media stories about the activities of Body Shop. More recently however this image has been bruised. Is the Body Shop social conscience just a sham?

The case discusses the issue with a perception among advertisers, marketers and consumers when it pertains to plus size clothing. Lane Bryant is a clothing store that manufactures and sales plus size clothing for women of all ages. Marketers assumed that being plus size was not a choice, but something that was an epidemic and that woman who are plus size, it was temporarily and they were not investing in plus size clothing. Plus-size consumers “experience marginalization in that they feel their choices in mainstream markets are simply too limited” (Scaraboto & Fischer, 2013).

Victoria's Secret has a stronghold on the lingerie market. Its store sales this year brought in over $6.1 billion, Even so, some are saying that Victoria's Secret's explosive success might start tumbling because of the paramount demographic of millennials and their changing attitudes. Research analyst Nikki Baird of research firm RSR explained in Forbes how many retailers are trying to cater to millennials to save themselves, but millennials' preferences may not fall in line with what Victoria's Secret stands for. The lingerie industry is going through enormous changes. Thin, models have been replaced by body types that more similar to the everyday

This essay will be addressing ideologies of consumer fetishism and pseudo-individuality through examining the commodity signs found in the mass marketing and advertising of designer cosmetics, particularly Chanel.

Sex is everywhere you turn. Victoria’s Secret is notorious for their ads that plaster billboards and the sides of buildings, featuring scantily-clad women suggesting an obvious sexual air. The bags you receive at Abercrombie feature half-dressed models, often two of which may be kissing or touching one another. These sexual images are far too present in the every day lives of young children, much younger than what used to be acceptable. Aside from this moral questionability, ads such as these often contain images of unrealistic body types, which exploit insecurity to make consumers use their product, the result of which can be dangerous to mental and physical health. Finally, when I see ads like the one to the right, and rack my brain

Consumerism and the effects of branding affect people’s lives. Branding allows consumers to easily identify which products are made by which companies. Yet, the brands create more of an influence on consumer’s lifestyles and in the end decide what kind of consumer that person is. Branding creates a blurred divide in our society. Consumers who are ore likely to purchase the branded products that are associated with better quality and higher prices are put into their own category bucket versus the consumers who choose the cheaper priced products that are made with less quality. When it comes to deciding who you are based off of the products and brands that you associate yourself with, it creates a capital divide in our society. Consumers than associate brands with personal feelings based upon whether or not they associate themselves with those brands. Lives of consumers are heavily influenced. Their lives are worse off when they feel the need to ‘keep up’ with brands in order to feel as if they are portraying themselves in the best light. In a way, this is similar to how all of branding began with livestock. Consumers want to physically brand themselves with specific brands by wearing logos and identifying with a brand. They might not be burning the brands directly onto their skin but they are burning the brands onto their clothes and burning holes in their wallets to keep up with society standards about brands.