Magazine Landscape. "fashion Cosmopolitanpolitan With" Cultural Studies

Nowadays, many more and more fashion magazines showed series of spectacles culture. Beauty sexy star idols and fashion merchandises give the audience a strong visual impact. Through these glamorous spectacles, fashion magazines provide the latest information about fashion and beauty at the first moment, and arouse the audience's desire to buy fashion merchandise. Our world is a piece of the spectacles everywhere, so we sometimes have no choice, but also unable to resist. By reading G.E. Debord's spectacles society, Jean Baudrillard's consumer society, Georg Simmel's philosophy of fashion, and Christopher Lash's Culture of narcissism, I have a deeper understanding about spectacles culture in the fashion magazine. Through these glamorous spectacles, fashion magazines spread to the audience the concept of fashion and consumerism. To some extent, it does promote consumption, and make the world more splendid and colorful, but it lacks the heart of the audience really care, blindly discipline audiences to symbolic consumption and conspicuous consumption, then you can get the so-called "identity." Conducting case studies of spectacles culture in the Trends Cosmopolitan which is the most representative of the domestic fashion magazine, can help us more clearly grasp how to produce and consume spectacles in the fashion magazines, and its impact to the audiences, then we will reflect it.The frame of This thesis: Chapter I describes briefly magazine Trends Cosmopolitan and spectacles culture, Chapter II analyze depth how to produce spectacles culture in the magazine Trends Cosmopolitan, Chapter III analyze briefly the audience how to consume spectacles culture, Chapter IV reflect spectacles culture in the fashion magazine Trends Cosmopolitan.