Week6 THE CULTURAL ECONOMY OF ASIAN CHIC

Week6

Xinyu—Yang

I noticed the author of the article "THE CULTURAL ECONOMY OF ASIAN CHIC": "By the end of the decade, Asian chic had become the lingua franca of fashion." However, in "designer" and "real Asian fashion" There is a clear difference between the two. Asian fashion is used by designers to build world economic value, the financial value of what Western designers call creative input. But in fact, it is different from real Asian culture. 

At the same time, in the second half of the article, the author mentioned that Mao Zedong played various roles in politics and other aspects in China. Through the change of the image of mao. Political pop and realism mainly satirize the political culture of the past. For example, the photo in the article shows the image of the feminine mao. And the clothes with the Mao head are sold for $100 each. These works express the ironic tendency of political popularity.

A portrait of Mao Zedong, drawn by the famous American Pop Artist Andy Warhol, sold for £7.6 million at an auction in London, surpassing the last auction of this partrait 18 times the price.