Soft Power Aesthetics: How Fashion Is Learning to Influence Without Imposing
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Desire is becoming a more powerful form of persuasion as soft power aesthetics reshape how fashion creates influence
Power in fashion has rarely been confined to what people wear. It sits in the images surrounding the product, the cultural references a brand chooses, the people allowed into its world and the identities consumers can imagine inhabiting through it. What is changing is the way that power is being communicated. The explicit signals of authority, status and aspiration are being replaced by something considerably less direct, with influence increasingly built through attraction rather than instruction.
