¡Divinas! Modelos, poder y mentiras

Synopsis of ¡Divinas! Modelos, poder y mentiras

«¡Divinas! Modelos, poder y mentiras» is the essay by Patrícia Soley-Beltran, published by Anagrama in 2015 in paperback (272 pages, in Spanish).

Drawing on her experience as a model, Soley-Beltran dissects fashion as a stage of power: canonical beauty, the social construction of identity, and glamour as the staging of capitalism. With accounts from international models, she contrasts the real backstage with the advertising image and offers keys to reading desire.

Essay winner of the Anagrama Essay Prize in 2015, part of the Colección Argumentos. The edition includes bibliographic references.

Of interest to readers of fashion sociology, gender studies and cultural criticism.