Hairstylists have always held an intimate and fabled position in the creation and maintenance of female charm and beauty. The role of the hairstylist as magic worker, beauty artist, and perhaps even more importantly, as confidante, friend, and advisor, who constructs the safe haven in which women can be transformed into their idealized selves, has
Many people are familiar with the ubiquitous Wheaties box with its rotating pictures of star athletes or the titillating ads featuring nothing coming between a pubescent Brooke Shields and her Calvins. Using celebrity images to market products has become a heavily used, stealthily applied concept to win over consumers, to change and solidify beauty norms
Celebrity journalists are news workers who become prominent or famous in their own right and thus objects of media attention. Journalists are a means of chronicling fame and infamy, and stars and leaders depend on journalism to maintain a public profile. Under economic pressures, media industries have tended to associate public personalities with their chroniclers.
Celebrity culture is characterized by a pervasive preoccupation with famous persons and an extravagant value attached to the lives of public figures whose actual accomplishments may be limited, but whose visibility is extensive. It became a feature of social life, especially in the developed world, during the late 1980s/ early 1990s and extended into the
Perhaps the most rapidly expanding facet of today’s media landscape is celebrity culture; entertainers’ work in the film, television, music, and fashion industries accompanies gossip about their personal lives in magazines and newspapers, on television, and online. The major players in celebrity culture are known worldwide – today, there are few who do not know