Pricing beauty: the production of value in fashion modeling markets
Success in cultural production markets like fashion modeling might on the surface appear to be a matter of blind luck or pure genius. But luck is never blind, nor does genius work alone. Behind every winner in a winner-take-all market there is a complex, organized production process. In this study, I show that fashion models are not simply discovered. They are made. This dissertation traces the production of value in fashion modeling markets to reveal an invisible world of work, collaboration, and calculation that goes into producing something many people take for granted as a natural state: beauty
Thesis, Dissertation, English, ©2009