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Fashion Everydayness as a Cultural Revolution in
Social Media Platforms—Focus on Fashion
Instagrammers
Sungeun Suh
 Fashion Design Major, College of Arts, Gachon University, Seongnam-Si, Gyeonggi-Do 13120, Korea;
 sesuh@gachon.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-31-750-5948
                                                                                                    
 Received: 17 January 2020; Accepted: 4 March 2020; Published: 5 March 2020                         

 Abstract: This study qualitatively analyzes the phenomenon of fashion everydayness as a cultural
 revolution in the digital space as everyday life continues to expand into digital platforms. The analysis
 proceeded in four perspectives based on Lefebvre’s theoretical framework: the festivalization of
 everyday life, the artification of everyday life, the holistic stylization of everyday life, and cultural
 revolution as a daily practice. Instagram, the case for this study and the most popular image-centric
 social network, leads the digital aesthetics paradigm through creative acts that weave fashion into the
 daily life of the individual. The study focuses on three fashion mega-influencers whose successful
 careers began with blogs documenting their daily lives. The analysis showed that Instagram, as a
 social platform, is a creative space for sharing everyday life with its appropriation of time and
 space. In there, fashion visualizes the look of the everyday beyond the boundaries of time and space.
 In practice, it suggests a digital cultural revolution: a composite lifestyle expressive of various tastes
 and styles—a vital medium to inspire and sustain fashion everydayness. This has implications that
 the information and communication technology of the digital age created a new cultural space and
 that daily visualization through fashion will eventually produce sustainable cultural contents.

 Keywords: cultural revolution; social media platform; Instagram; fashion everydayness; digital space
 and time

1. Introduction
     Culture continues to experience tremendous changes in communication methods and information
consumption as digital technology and social media develop and evolve. The mobile device has become
fundamental for everyday communication even as its presentational medium rapidly shifts from text to
images and videos. In turn, the concept of daily time and space has been reconstructed and reproduced,
following the operating mechanism and rhythm of information and communication media from the
computer and the Internet to cellphones and smartphones [1] (p. 615). From a linear and cyclical
conceptualization of time, the advent of digital space reconceives time now as simultaneous, fluid,
and transcendent [2] (p. 10). Digital space has claimed aesthetics as a creative space for individuals in
their everyday life—the space of cultural consumption, production, and distribution in present society.
In time, the idea of everyday life may also extend to virtual or augmented reality.
     In sociology, everydayness is a core theme in works reconstructing the vitality, creativity,
and aesthetics of everyday life in postmodern society [3]. De Certeau, for example, stressed the
daily continuance of creative work in one’s life for rejuvenation and transformation [4]. On the other
hand, Maffesoli viewed the space of everyday life as a space of personal emotional creation and
presented the digital space as a domain of everydayness revelatory of the fundamental power that
constitutes society in the digital age [5].

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      Fashion has been recently attracting attention as a daily phenomenon that projects our everyday
lives on a digital platform. Posts from diverse, influential fashion Instagrammers and YouTubers are
projected as lifestyles and values of the millennial generation, accelerating the digital renovation of
the fashion system. Leading fashion theorists Agnés Rocamora, Eugenie Shinkle, and Reina Lewis
discuss similar themes in their works, focusing on fashion images and personal style of influencers in
the blogosphere as new fashion media. Shinkle [6] (p. 1) emphasized that digital image and fashion
interactives, wherein users can select and control via a computer interface, now seem ready to replace
the still photograph as a key media form of fashion.
      Similarly, Rocamora [7] (p. 1) stated that fashion blogs have become key players in the field of
fashion, evident among personal fashion blogs documenting the blogger owner’s style. The medium
represents a significant space that encourages individual identity while establishing itself as a central
form of fashion blogging. In the era of new media, personal styles emerge from fashion recipients who
create their own image by transforming and combining fashion information through the representative
social media [8] (p. 2). Rocamora also consistently discusses the rise of the fashion blogosphere and
the impact of new technologies on fashion [9–11]. Additionally, Lewis said that the fashion blog is
an open network that provides an opportunity to introduce a variety of global and local fashion [12].
Luis, Ana-Isabel, and Ubaldo [13] discussed the critical influence of the rise of Instagram as the
fastest-growing social network in beauty and fashion brands. Wang, Ahmed, Deng, and Wang [14]
examined the overall performance achievement of social media marketing, even in Bangladesh.
      The appropriation of time and space on digital platforms—blogging in this case—follows Henri
Lefebvre’s concept of cultural revolution in which innovation and change are pursued through
everyday creative practice. The digital platform has thus become a new place of digital everydayness,
and Lefebvre’s vision of overcoming alienation in everyday life through appropriation as the
identification of self the value of festivals and play, and as a resurgence of style and artwork,
is well suited to studying the everydayness of fashion in social media.
      Within these contexts, this study qualitatively analyzed the role of fashion in visualizing everyday
life in social media and the concordant influence of digital space on the digital paradigm of fashion.
The focus is on Instagram as an image-driven digital media where people visually represent everyday
moments and as a platform for representing individual styles through fashion-centric images. With the
intent of following the trajectory of how a casual Instagrammer transition to a mega-fashion influencer,
Tavi Gevinson (@tavitulle), Susanna Lau (@susiebubble), and Chiara Ferragni’s (@chiaraferragni) blogs
were selected for the analyses. The selected blogs were analyzed following four perspectives, based on
Lefebvre’s concepts: the festivalization everyday life; the artification of everyday life; the holistic
stylization of everyday life; and cultural revolution as a daily practice.

2. Literature Review

2.1. Fashion in Everyday Life
    Recently, the subject of everyday life has become more critical in fashion studies. According to
Buckley and Clark [15]:

      “Fashion and everyday life are somewhat multivalent terms. Everyday life can refer to both
      experience and synchronicity. The everyday experience is in its typical form today, as it was
      yesterday and will be tomorrow; what constitutes everyday life changes according to the
      time and place. Fashion was integral to everyday life in the 20th century, and its impact
      grew as the century progressed. As a visual spectacle and material object, fashion offered
      the potential for the extraordinary to occur in the context of the everyday, thus enabling
      transformations in appearance and identities”. [15] (p. 1)

In conjunction, Lefebvre and Levich [16] considered fashion, along with food and housing, as “essential
for everyday life, as constituting autonomous subsystems and representing a diversity” [16] (p. 8).
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The everyday is a “set of functions that connect and join together systems that might appear to be
distinct” [16] (p. 9). Linked together, it results in the concept of “style,” including functions and
structures as integral parts of its form [16] (p. 8). If one can consider the relationship between fashion
and everyday aesthetics based on the content the former produces, fashion, “in everyday mode,” could
be interpreted as a configuration of lifestyle; fashion-as-lifestyle can be considered as the emblem of
this new state of things” [17] (p. 241).
      Ash and Wilson [18] recognized the diverse ways in which fashion intersects with everyday
life, and identified fashion as one of the most immediate and everyday cultural manifestations.
In agreement, Buckley and Clark [15] consider fashion to be embedded and contingent in the practices
of people’s daily lives, both a personal expression of everyday life and a sociocultural phenomenon;
everyday clothes routinely worn by people reveal an ongoing engagement with fashion on a scale
from extraordinary to ordinary—either of which can be indicative of the everyday [15] (p. 7). There is
also the essential contradiction and tension in daily life: stable and impermanent but always in a
process and, therefore, imperfect [19] (p. 75). These contradictory characteristics of everyday life
relate to the double-sidedness of fashion: it can be ordinary and extraordinary, routine and special,
or essential and updated. We try not only to wear everyday clothes in the routine of life, but also to
express self-image in our own style. We also dress in more extraordinary ways to express the everyday
in special situations, such as festivals, events, and leisure activities.
      Considering the trajectories of fashion in everyday life, “it is possible to explore the fault lines
or intersections of ordinary fashion with ongoing lives” [15] (p. 3). When a contemporary fashion
trajectory can be traced over the last century in the catwalk, the magazine, the boutique, the department
store, and the designer, fashion is present in the distinct, superior, specialized, structured activities [15]
(p. 9). When tracing fashion in everyday life, the everyday may be obvious: readily exposed by
rummaging through diaries, letters, photographs, and other such alternative sources instead of looking
at government records as Highmore mentioned [20] (p. 1). As our living space has expanded to the
digital space, everyday life and fashion are now traceable via social media platforms. Therefore, fashion,
everyday life, and the social media platform need to be discussed more in a syntagmatic analysis.

2.2. Digital Everydayness as Cultural Revolution

2.2.1. The Concept of Cultural Revolution
      Lefebvre [21] asserted the necessity of cultural revolution in 20th-century society to create a holistic
lifestyle through everyday practice. Appropriation as a key concept of cultural revolution is crucial
to overcoming neglected daily routines; it refers to “the management of the body, desire, and time
without reliance on external bodies—an appropriate person is not alienated and is self-possessed” [21]
(p. 39). Appropriation as creative action is to derive potential from ordinary everyday life; as such,
the products of nature and the social turn into goods [21] (p. 77). “Appropriating social and natural
beings” is essential to human life and is opposed to the capitalist social order dominated by exchange
values [10] (p. 38).
      “Everyday artwork” is a cultural revolution that refers to the creation of culture as a lifestyle [21].
In other words, Lefebvre’s cultural revolution is the reclamation of style and work created by one’s
whole being [2] (p. 3). Instagram expresses the various daily desires through fashion—a visual medium.
Influencers form visually unique identities through their fashion tastes and lifestyles, which means
establishing the holistic stylization of everyday life through one’s fashion image.

2.2.2. The appropriation of Time and Space in Digital Space
     According to Lefebvre, the “appropriation of time has its own character. It does not come as
calculated; it comes when an activity brings fullness. These activities include aspects of self-creation
and talent to achieve harmony with oneself” [22] (p. 208–209). In the context of the appropriation of
time, he emphasized the need to restore the “rhythm of me” through a rhythm analysis of daily life [22]
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(p. 20). Lefebvre also defined an appropriated space as “a space modified to realize the needs and
potential of a group” [23] (p. 58) and emphasized the need to recognize space as a social medium of life
open to ever-changing lives and numerous possibilities. De Certeau perceives social space as variable
according to human creativity and practice [2]. Aesthetics in spatiality are linked to the aesthetics of
everyday life. These aesthetic values are no longer carried out by privileged or professional artists
but are permeated into the daily life and space of ordinary people to improve the quality of life in
general [24].
     The greatest change that had emerged in the advent of this digital era is cyberspace; social
media platforms as virtual and integrated spaces of everyday life in particular. As a lifestyle, fashion
appropriates the time and space of everyday life in a digital space and generates its own value. Fashion
has been also democratized in the digital space, no longer owned by privileged groups as how high
fashion was exclusively accessible for them. Social media platforms opened a way to various kinds
of fashion to the public, encouraging anyone to express and share personal fashion in everyday life
in public.
     As social networks evolved into media platforms, its position and influence in the cultural
ecosystem increased [25]. According to the 2018 Netizen Profile Research Report of NAS Media [26],
Instagram, which freely presents uploaded pictures with an intuitive search engine that uses hashtags,
had the highest utilization rate of that year. Naturally, the formed trend is that users express and boast
of their daily life on Instagram [27].

2.2.3. Digital Everydayness and Fashion
      Lefebvre and Levich [16] wrote:

      “The everyday is situated at the intersection of two modes of repetition: the cyclical,
      which dominates in nature, and the linear, which dominates in processes known as rational.
      The days follow one after another and resemble one another, and yet here lies the contradiction
      at the heart of everydayness: everything changes, but the change is programmed”. [16]
      (p. 10)

     The organizing principle of spatial composition in 20th-century industrial society was the control
of human beings according to unilinear time. The cycle of time and space was uniformly divided by
night and day, labor and relaxation, and so on [1,28] (pp. 614–615). Time in the digital age, however,
is current, transcendent, and immediate. In such an age, cyberspace embodies everything imaginable,
while physical space provides a safe basis for reality and materiality [29].
     As digital society advanced, the convergence of these different sections of everyday life are given
representation from the differentiation and convergence of the physical and cyberspaces, the dissolution
of boundaries between the public and private, and the collapse of the time–space cycle of labor and
leisure that governed the industrial society. Now and wherever, citizens enjoy a new spatial system
that connects everyone in “my own space without space”; it also began a possible future where one
could live beyond the traditional boundaries of time [30]. Especially in social media, people are always
connected in real time and transcend the boundaries of public and private realms as well as work and
leisure. As social media platforms expand into everyday time and space, fashion also visualizes this
phenomenon on the social platform every day.
     Kawamura [31] noted that the impact of technology is evident in every interactive sphere of our
lives, including how individuals, particularly the youth, socially interact within fashion communities.
Rocamora [7] (p. 1) said that personal fashion blogs have established itself as a central form of fashion
blogging by posting photos of bloggers documenting their style in everyday life. Rocamora [9,10]
also discuss the rise of the fashion blogosphere and the impact of new technologies on the mediation
of fashion. She showed the relevance of the concept of the mediatization for understanding the
contemporary field of fashion and its relation to digital media, in fashion production and retail.
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  The mediatization of fashion reaches out to ordinary practices of the self, a mediatized self through the
  use of digital cameras, the same as wearing cosmetics [11].
        This study proposes a conceptual model of fashion everydayness on the social media platform,
  particularly the Instagram case, as a creative cultural revolution through the appropriation of time and
  space in the digital space (See Figure 1).
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                                                        Cultural Revolution

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representative image centric form of social media that expresses various aspects of everyday life in
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4. Results and Discussion: Fashion Everydayness in Selected Instagrams
4. Results and Discussion: Fashion Everydayness in Selected Instagrams
4.1. The Festivalization of Everyday Life
 4.1. The Festivalization of Everyday Life
      According to Lefebvre [39] (p. xxviii), a festival, like a revolution, marks both a break in everyday
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 life and a rehabilitation of the everyday. He also emphasized the importance of “leisure activities”
 and “work–leisure unity” in everyday life [39] (p. 29). Leisure as a festival is an energy for creative
 production outside the framework of spatial organization, as well as the rationality and efficiency of
 capitalist time and economic production. Through this festival, Lefebvre pursued the practice of
 transforming the everyday, producing a new space in the day-to-day [40].
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and “work–leisure unity” in everyday life [39] (p. 29). Leisure as a festival is an energy for creative
production outside the framework of spatial organization, as well as the rationality and efficiency
of capitalist time and economic production. Through this festival, Lefebvre pursued the practice of
transforming the everyday, producing a new space in the day-to-day [40].
      Similarly, Instagrammers transform their daily lives into festivals by dissipating the boundary
between work and life. Ferragni and Fedez’s post at Kudadoo Maldives Private Island (Figure
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demonstrates the blurred boundaries between the public and the private as well as work and leisure.
Ferragni may
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                                                                                                          collection.
In this  way,    they  present   a certain fashion style  and  subsequently   promote    related products.
In this way, they present a certain fashion style and subsequently promote related products. Special         Special
occasions     also become     an opportunity,  such  as Ferragni’s post  of her family  donning
occasions also become an opportunity, such as Ferragni’s post of her family donning Batman       Batman    costumes
for Halloween
costumes            (Figure 4). On
              for Halloween          Instagram,
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                                                  Instagram,         of everyday life
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and   daily   activities   can become   special and  extraordinary,  representing   play.
personal spaces and daily activities can become special and extraordinary, representing play.

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      com/p/BsIFbMXBI4h/ (accessed on 2 March 2019).2 March 2019).

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     De Certeau
     De   Certeau proposed
                       proposed everyday
                                    everyday lifelife as
                                                       as aa set
                                                             set of
                                                                  of practices
                                                                      practices that,
                                                                                   that, although    established, offer
                                                                                         although established,        offer the
                                                                                                                             the
potential  for creativity   [4].  As for  making     do  with  this  everyday     culture, people
potential for creativity [4]. As for making do with this everyday culture, people have also been    have   also  been  making
with it: with
making    transforming      and inventing
                it: transforming                by appropriating
                                     and inventing                      and redeploying
                                                         by appropriating                     [13] (p.
                                                                                and redeploying     [13]9).
                                                                                                          (p. The   duality
                                                                                                              9). The  dualityof
fashion  is to express    everyday     life as  a festivity,  a means    of releasing    latent  desires
of fashion is to express everyday life as a festivity, a means of releasing latent desires onto the       onto   the  ordinary.
In the digital
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                      digital      transforms
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                                                                                                                 art and style,
                                                                                                                              of
play and   festival.
art and style, play and festival.
     The social
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                    platform represents
                               represents the the festival
                                                   festival of
                                                             of everyday
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                                                                                   in expanded
                                                                                      expanded time
                                                                                                  time and
                                                                                                         and space,
                                                                                                               space, “digital
                                                                                                                       “digital
space fluidity”
space  fluidity” [41][41] that
                          that allows
                                 allows users
                                          users to to extend
                                                       extend daily
                                                                daily horizons
                                                                        horizons beyond
                                                                                     beyond time
                                                                                               time and
                                                                                                      and space
                                                                                                            space in in aa tight
                                                                                                                           tight
network.    This  is  particularly   seen   from    influencers’   Instagram     posts   before  their
network. This is particularly seen from influencers’ Instagram posts before their commercial success.   commercial     success.
Instagrammers commonly
Instagrammers        commonlystart startrepresenting
                                          representing   everyday
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     As the everyday space of “house” appeared as the main location for Instagram shoots, spaces that
used to be regarded as very private—bedrooms, toilets, kitchens, decks, and yards—are transformed
into special studios. In Figure 5, a young Tavi Gevinson photographed herself on the deck of her
house. This particular photo is among the first ones she posted when she started blogging at the age
of 11. The use of kitchens and dining rooms as an aesthetic space is also prevalent in Instagram. Here,
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      As the everyday space of “house” appeared as the main location for Instagram shoots, spaces that
used to be regarded as very private—bedrooms, toilets, kitchens, decks, and yards—are transformed
into special studios. In Figure 5, a young Tavi Gevinson photographed herself on the deck of her
house. This particular photo is among the first ones she posted when she started blogging at the age of
11. The use of kitchens and dining rooms as an aesthetic space is also prevalent in Instagram. Here,
in Figure 6, Lau is drinking coffee in a very café-like dining area. The bathroom is also always one of
the popular spaces presenting one’s self-image fashionably. In Figure 7, Gevinson calls her reflected
image   “pants and shower curtain and life.”
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on Instagram, as a routine of everyday life, can be seen as a “festivalized” moment. In other words,
Instagram provides a space to transform the everyday ordinary into the extraordinary, even into one’s
ideal image.
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            Figure
       Figure      8. Gevinson
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and Ferragni       showed
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            Figure 9. A pregnant Ferragni. Reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/BgCOGQMDE-o/ (accessed
            on 8 March 2019).
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            on 8 March 2019).
       on 8 March  2019).
            on 8 March  2019).

             Figure 10. Lau breastfeeding. Reference: https://www.instagram.com/p/BYlmSZUlGgw/ (accessed on
             27 March 2019).
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       4.2. The Artification
       creation,             of Everyday Life style, value, and human existence are necessary [19] (p. 348). His
                  freedom, appropriation,
             In Lefebvre’s theory of cultural revolution [21], the full reconstruction of concepts such as work,
             In Lefebvre’s theory of cultural revolution [21], the full reconstruction of concepts such as work,
       creation, freedom, appropriation, style, value, and human existence are necessary [19] (p. 348). His
       creation, freedom, appropriation, style, value, and human existence are necessary [19] (p. 348). His
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      In Lefebvre’s theory of cultural revolution [21], the full reconstruction of concepts such as work,
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creation, freedom, appropriation, style, value, and human existence are necessary [19] (p. 348).
His posit, “Let the everyday become a work,” no longer refers to an artistic object. Instead, it is to know
posit, “Let the everyday become a work,” no longer refers to an artistic object. Instead, it is to know
and understand oneself, to set their own conditions and express them as such with their bodies, desires,
and understand oneself, to set their own conditions and express them as such with their bodies,
time, and
desires,     spaces.
          time,         This is This
                 and spaces.    artification   as appropriation:
                                      is artification                 the actthe
                                                         as appropriation:     ofact
                                                                                  becoming     one’sone’s
                                                                                      of becoming     own own
                                                                                                           artwork    [21]
                                                                                                                artwork
(p. 355–356).
[21] (p. 355–356).
      Aesthetics in spatiality are linked to the aesthetics of everyday life. Aestheticizing the emotional
      Aesthetics in spatiality are linked to the aesthetics of everyday life. Aestheticizing the emotional
circulation of everyday humans through reinforcement of the aesthetic function of the everyday spatial
circulation of everyday humans through reinforcement of the aesthetic function of the everyday
environment, means liberating the lifestyle of the masses with flexibility, diversity, and solidarity.
spatial environment, means liberating the lifestyle of the masses with flexibility, diversity, and
However, these
solidarity.         aesthetic
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                                                                                   out by or professional
                                                                                             privileged orartists but are
                                                                                                            professional
permeated into the daily life and space of ordinary people to improve the quality of life in general [24].
artists but are permeated into the daily life and space of ordinary people to improve the quality of
In the case of Instagram, it is a medium accessible to everyone but begins in private. The general public
life in general [24]. In the case of Instagram, it is a medium accessible to everyone but begins in
can traceThe
private.    the general
                lifestylepublic
                          of an influencer
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                                                      it were of
                                                              a diary, capturing
                                                                 an influencer   as their  past,apresent,
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visual images and videos.
past, present, and future via visual images and videos.
      In Figure 11, Lau is seen lying down on a handmade boucherouite rug, wearing a waterfall knit
      In Figure 11, Lau is seen lying down on a handmade boucherouite rug, wearing a waterfall knit
by JW Anderson that matches the rug’s design on her Instagram (@susiebubble). The rug and her
by JW Anderson that matches the rug’s design on her Instagram (@susiebubble). The rug and her knit
knit artistically meld into each other, making Lau look as if she were part of a single piece of artwork
artistically meld into each other, making Lau look as if she were part of a single piece of artwork
itself. In
itself. In aa similar
              similar manner,
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                                  Gevinson’s post post ofof herself
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lips painted over her own and posing under some plants in her garden (Figure 12), can be taken
lips painted over her own and posing under some plants in her garden (Figure 12), can be taken as
as an example of how one artificate themselves. In this example, artification occurs with Gevinson
an example of how one artificate themselves. In this example, artification occurs with Gevinson
pretending
pretending to  to be
                  be aa doll,
                        doll, photographed
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             11. Lau lying
                   Lau     down
                        lying    on aon
                              down    boucherouite rug. Reference:
                                        a boucherouite             https://www.instagram.com/
                                                        rug. Reference:     https://www.instagram.com/p/
      p/xKpg3HKahd/
      xKpg3HKahd/      (accessed
                     (accessed onon
                                  2727 March
                                     March   2019).
                                           2019).

      Figure  12. Gevinson
      Figure 12.  Gevinson pretending
                           pretending to
                                      to be
                                         be aa Cabbage
                                               Cabbage Patch
                                                       Patch Kid
                                                              Kid (first
                                                                  (first photo
                                                                         photo in
                                                                                in slideshow).
                                                                                    slideshow). Reference:
                                                                                                Reference:
      https://www.instagram.com/p/BSWSd6MBIWr/      (accessed on 15  March
      https://www.instagram.com/p/BSWSd6MBIWr/ (accessed on 15 March 2019). 2019).

      Instagrammers also utilize multiple digital and visual techniques to express themselves; they are
not limited
     limitedtotomaterial
                materialresources
                           resourcesinin
                                       digital space.
                                         digital      Fashion
                                                 space.       images
                                                        Fashion       on Instagram
                                                                  images           make
                                                                         on Instagram     everyday
                                                                                         make        life look
                                                                                               everyday    life
like art, expressing it as an imaginary  or virtual image that transcends everyday life. For instance, Figure
look like art, expressing it as an imaginary or virtual image that transcends everyday life. For instance,
13 shows Lau in a pale pink dress with a haze of pink clouds behind her. In her post, she captioned it
as “A morning of milk vom and poonami means I’ve momentarily escaped into a haze of pink clouds.”
Gevinson has a similar post (Figure 14) of herself in a dress with a floating UFO print. Here, Gevinson
captions the post as “being a prepubescent alien.” This is backed by what Suh and Kim [8] (p. 134)
discussed that dreams and imagination are inspirations for the imaginary self, and that social media
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Figure 13 shows Lau in a pale pink dress with a haze of pink clouds behind her. In her post,
she captioned it as “A morning of milk vom and poonami means I’ve momentarily escaped into a
haze of pink clouds.” Gevinson has a similar post (Figure 14) of herself in a dress with a floating UFO
print. Here, Gevinson captions the post as “being a prepubescent alien.” This is backed by what Suh
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and Kim [8] (p. 134) discussed that dreams and imagination are inspirations for the imaginary self,
and
is     that social
is aa virtual
      virtual   space
               space media
                        where
                       where  is it
                                  a can
                                 it virtual
                                    can      space where
                                        be realized.
                                        be  realized. Anditadvanced
                                                      And     can be realized.
                                                             advanced           And advanced
                                                                       digital technologies,
                                                                       digital technologies,    digital
                                                                                              such
                                                                                              such      technologies,
                                                                                                   as visual
                                                                                                   as visual literacy,
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such    as visual
contribute to
contribute         literacy,
               to the
                  the artistic contribute
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                                  creation ofto the artistic
                                            of Instagram’s   creation
                                                Instagram’s visual    of Instagram’s
                                                              visual images.
                                                                     images.         visual  images.

       Figure 13.
       Figure 13. Lau
               13.Lau with
                      with
                    Lau     pinkpink
                           pink
                          with   clouds
                                 clouds   as aa backdrop.
                                         as
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                                                           Reference:
                                                 as a backdrop.       https://www.instagram.com/
                                                                      https://www.instagram.com/
                                                                                https://www.instagram.com/p/
       p/BRqkRHblH9i/
       p/BRqkRHblH9i/
       BRqkRHblH9i/      (accessed
                        (accessed
                      (accessed     on
                                 onon   27
                                     2727  March
                                           March
                                        March       2019).
                                                   2019).
                                                 2019).

       Figure 14.
       Figure
       Figure 14. Gevinson
              14. Gevinson pretending
                   Gevinsonpretending aa prepubescent
                             pretending  prepubescent
                                         a prepubescentalien.
                                                       alien. Reference:
                                                              Reference:
                                                          alien.         https://www.instagram.com/
                                                                         https://www.instagram.com/
                                                                 Reference:   https://www.instagram.com/p/
       p/BM72ELtDHod/
       p/BM72ELtDHod/    (accessed
                         (accessed on
                                   on 15
                                      15  March
                                         March
       BM72ELtDHod/ (accessed on 15 March 2019).2019).
                                                2019).

4.3. The
4.3. The Holistic
         Holistic Stylization
                  Stylization of
                              of Everyday Life
                                 Everyday Life
       For Lefebvre,
      For    Lefebvre, cultural
                             cultural revolution
                                           revolution refers  refers to  to the
                                                                              the transformation
                                                                                    transformation of      of the
                                                                                                               the outside
                                                                                                                     outside world
                                                                                                                                 world as   as well
                                                                                                                                               well as  as
everyday     life
              life to
                    to create
                        create    aa new,
                                      new,  holistic
                                              holistic  lifestyle
                                                           lifestyle  [42].
                                                                         [42]. HeHe emphasized
                                                                                      emphasized      the
everyday life to create a new, holistic lifestyle [42]. He emphasized the symbolic value of the “whole” thesymbolic
                                                                                                              symbolic  value
                                                                                                                           value of  the
                                                                                                                                     of    “whole”
                                                                                                                                         the  “whole”   as
a  complex,
as aa complex,
as              linking
       complex, linking     from
                      linking from   the  smallest
                                    from the           tool
                                            the smallest
                                                  smallest toolto  the
                                                                  tool togreatest
                                                                           to the     works
                                                                                the greatest    of
                                                                                     greatest worksart  and
                                                                                                   works of   learning
                                                                                                            of art
                                                                                                                art and   [21]   (p.
                                                                                                                      and learning    8).
                                                                                                                             learning [21] “Everyday
                                                                                                                                           [21] (p.
                                                                                                                                                  (p. 8).
                                                                                                                                                        8).
artwork”
“Everyday
“Everyday    isartwork”
                 a culturalis
                 artwork”       isrevolution
                                       culturalthat
                                    aa cultural           refers tothat
                                                    revolution
                                                   revolution            the refers
                                                                       that    creation
                                                                               refers       of
                                                                                            theculture
                                                                                        to the
                                                                                        to        creation
                                                                                                 creation as of
                                                                                                              a lifestyle
                                                                                                             of   culture as
                                                                                                                 culture     [21].  In other[21].
                                                                                                                             as aa lifestyle
                                                                                                                                   lifestyle     words,
                                                                                                                                                [21].   In
                                                                                                                                                        In
Lefebvre’s
other   words,  cultural
                   Lefebvre’s revolution
                                     cultural  is  the   reclamation
                                                 revolution         is the     of  style
                                                                              reclamation  and  ofwork
                                                                                                   style
other words, Lefebvre’s cultural revolution is the reclamation of style and work created by one’s whole   created
                                                                                                          and   work by   one’s
                                                                                                                        created   whole
                                                                                                                                    by       being
                                                                                                                                         one’s   whole [2]
(p.
being
being3). [2]
          Instagram
         [2]  (p. 3).
              (p.         expresses the
                    3). Instagram
                         Instagram              variousthe
                                           expresses
                                           expresses          daily
                                                            the         desires
                                                                  various
                                                                  various           through
                                                                                 daily
                                                                                 daily    desires
                                                                                          desiresfashion—a
                                                                                                     through visual
                                                                                                     through      fashion—a
                                                                                                                  fashion—amedium.visual
                                                                                                                                  visual  Influencers
                                                                                                                                             medium.
                                                                                                                                             medium.
form    visually
Influencers
Influencers         unique
                 form
                 form           identities
                          visually
                          visually       unique
                                         uniquethrough        their through
                                                     identities
                                                     identities        fashion tastes
                                                                       through       their and
                                                                                     their         lifestyles.
                                                                                              fashion
                                                                                             fashion     tastes This
                                                                                                         tastes    and means
                                                                                                                   and             establishing
                                                                                                                         lifestyles.
                                                                                                                         lifestyles.     This means
                                                                                                                                         This    meansthe
holistic   stylization
establishing the
establishing                 of
                  the holistic  everyday
                        holistic stylization    life
                                      stylization of  through
                                                       of everyday    one’s
                                                            everyday life      fashion
                                                                             life through  image.
                                                                                  through one’s one’s fashion
                                                                                                       fashion image.
                                                                                                                   image.
       In Figure
      In   Figure 15, 15, Lau’s
                           Lau’s signature
                                      signature
                                       signature bangsbangs and  and top-knot,           including her
                                                                          top-knot, including
                                                                         top-knot,                      her clutch
                                                                                                              clutch printed
                                                                                                                       printed with with herher name
                                                                                                                                                  name
(SUSIE!),    define     her   style    identity.
                                       identity.    Her     other     posts     often    depict   such
(SUSIE!), define her style identity. Her other posts often depict such identity; for example, Figure 16  identity;    for  example,       Figure    16 isis
a  collage   of   Lau’s
   collage of Lau’s
a collage                  unique
                  Lau’s unique          street
                            unique street        style
                                         street style
                                                  style as as  a  global
                                                            as aa global      fashion
                                                                   global fashion         influencer.
                                                                               fashion influencer.         Ferragni
                                                                                           influencer. Ferragni         became      known
                                                                                                           Ferragni became known for her        for  her
signature motif
signature      motif“a
              motif     “awinking
                       “a    winkingeye
                            winking         eyewith
                                          eye     withlong
                                                with        long
                                                         long        lashes,”
                                                                 lashes,”
                                                                 lashes,”       and
                                                                               and andeven
                                                                                      eveneven    launched
                                                                                              launched
                                                                                              launched          a whole
                                                                                                           aa whole
                                                                                                              whole          collection
                                                                                                                       collection
                                                                                                                       collection      of aa of
                                                                                                                                      of     shoe
                                                                                                                                             shoea shoe
                                                                                                                                                     and
                                                                                                                                                    and
bag label featuring such design (Figure 17). She similarly showcases her jet-setter lifestyle as a globala
and
bag   bag
      label label    featuring
              featuring      such     such
                                      design design
                                                 (Figure  (Figure
                                                              17).      17).
                                                                      She      She
                                                                             similarlysimilarly
                                                                                           showcasesshowcases
                                                                                                           her      her  jet-setter
                                                                                                                 jet-setter   lifestyle lifestyle
                                                                                                                                           as a     as
                                                                                                                                                 global
global
influencer
influencerinfluencer
               (Figure 18).
               (Figure     (Figure
                           18). Figure
                                  Figure18).19
                                            19Figure
                                                 shows 19
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                                                             Gevinson
                                                            Gevinson          Gevinsonher
                                                                              updating       updating
                                                                                            her  style in
                                                                                                 style      her
                                                                                                            this style
                                                                                                        in this          in this
                                                                                                                  dressing
                                                                                                                  dressing     room
                                                                                                                               room dressing
                                                                                                                                       post, as
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                                                                                                                                                   most
                                                                                                                                                   most
post,   as most
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                 do   on aa daily
                      on                do
                               daily basis. on Her
                                        basis.   a daily
                                                 Her          basis. Her
                                                         published
                                                        published                published
                                                                            collection
                                                                           collection            collection
                                                                                           of articles,
                                                                                           of  articles,       of articles,
                                                                                                          interviews,
                                                                                                          interviews,      photo
                                                                                                                           photointerviews,
                                                                                                                                     editorials,
                                                                                                                                     editorials, photo
                                                                                                                                                     and
                                                                                                                                                    and
illustrations (Figure
illustrations     (Figure 20)  20) from
                                     from thethe now-closed
                                                  now-closed online    online magazine,
                                                                                  magazine, Rookie,Rookie, cancan bebe seen
                                                                                                                       seen as as the
                                                                                                                                  the penultimate
                                                                                                                                         penultimate
example of
example      of the
                 the holistic
                       holistic stylization
                                     stylization of   of everyday
                                                          everyday life.    life. Both
                                                                                  Both style
                                                                                          style book
                                                                                                  book andand magazine
                                                                                                                magazine depict depict Gevinson’s
                                                                                                                                          Gevinson’s
signature      style   but   recreated       with    the    purpose        of   influencing
signature style but recreated with the purpose of influencing the lifestyle of the teenager.     the  lifestyle    of the   teenager.
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