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...most influential person of the past 40 years? -Heath Urie, Boulder, Colo. Mikhail Gorbachev, internationally, was critically important. Ronald Reagan had a big impact on American life. So did Osama bin Laden. You can't ignore that...
...relates to Asian designer labels and fashion in Asia more generally, the impact of marketing on consumerism is especially important. Asia is the land of the nouveau riche, an easy demographic to convince of the importance of symbols and status. As of the turn of the millennia, roughly half the world’s full-priced luxury purchases were made by Asians. And the industry is following the money: as of last year, Salvatore Ferragamo had 16 retailers in Singapore, a city-state of 4.5 million people; New York City, home to over 8.2 million and arguably the most developed...
...intentions. Nevertheless, in its aspirations towards the designer stratosphere, Project East calls into question some of the complications that surround the high cultural valuation of elite brands and designer labels. As the self-designated spokesperson for Asian designers, perhaps it should seek awareness of fashion consumerism’s impact on the Asian region as well. After all, it is the priority of developed and developing economies worldwide to fulfill the needs of the societies they reflect. To determine what these needs are, each one of us has the social responsibility to decide the aspects of consumerism that arise from...
...says. “Part of that’s just the financial reality, and part of it’s the status thing. People with a professional degree don’t want to go into jobs that are perceived as having a low impact, or being beneath their education.” Mahan himself eventually plans to attend graduate school, but is proceeding with caution...
...media that’s one of the interests because it makes the story unusual. For the jury when they are considering what happened that night,” he said. “I don’t see it ultimately having that much of an impact...