Beauty Exchange
The documentary The Beauty Exchange displays the life of typical Czech women in the 21st century struggling with the image of beauty. Every person is shaped by the world around them and the basis for what a woman should look like has been instilled in society through magazines, TV, movies, advertisements, celebrities. The challenges that women are constantly facing are perfect skin, gorgeous hair, flawless make-up, good figure, fashionable style and these things have grown to be such an important part of today's society.
One would think that it was women who determined fashion trends, since they are the ones who spend so much money and effort looking good when each one comes out. Yet, this current documentary shows that is not exactly the truth. In fact, women do not play as large of a part as one may think in the process of creating and popularizing fashion trends. Often times, it is male designers who create the fashion trends, and then the media who popularizes them. Women are often the ones struggling to change or alter their bodies in order to make them fit in with the latest trends or fashion demands. Determining who or what exactly determines current fashion and beauty trends is actually a much more complicated process. Often times, fashion trends are led by a subconscious and irrational urge, which is perpetuated by those behind the scenes in the top ranking media spots. Often times, the fashion trends are manipulated and modeled in order to manipulate financial trends to get consumers to spend more on trying to look their best.
One of the women has an assortment of products for everything you can imagine from bronzers to shampoos in order to pamper herself well. This women additionally is very obsessed with the latest fashion trends. Another women has every diet...
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