Exp 3 -Mash Up

Madonna, Obama, Prada

Almost every girl has someone whom she admires and idolizes. I suspect that this fascination with Miuccia Prada and Her shapes, her colors, her peculiar sense of luxury impacted and influenced me in one way or another. Not only did I imitate her fashion, but I also incorporated her attitude in my own persona. I suspect that this fascination with Miuccia Prada is true in many parts of the world. In fact, as I have said before, it is difficult to think of any single act that would do more to restore America's soft power than the older Prada style. The fact that a tipsy but well-dressed matron was popular was constantly contributed to the impact that her image made on the culture and provoked many people to desire these attributes of glamour and style that defined beauty as depicted in the latest fall collection.

Soft power is the ability to obtain the outcomes one wants through attraction rather than using the carrots and sticks of payment or coercion. This reflects the influence Ms. Prada has on popular culture, as she constantly reinvents her image and consequently sets the trends toward a single dominant style, like the Prada bowling bag, even if such a look is widely copied. soft power rests on a strong belief that women should be as powerful and domineering as men and that a woman should be free to get in on a look. The key is to know when to stay with it, and when to move on.

Madonna
Anne Masuda, 2005, "Madonna's Impact on Society", Associated Content: Arts and Entertainment
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/6611/madonnas_impact_on_society.html?cat=33

Obama
Joseph Nye, 2008, "Barack Obama and Soft Power", The Huffington Post,
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joseph-nye/barack-obama-and-soft-pow_b_106717.html

Prada
Cathy Horyn, 2000, "It's Not Just Something in the Air; That's Miuccia Prada's Influence", The New York Times: Style
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/16/style/it-s-not-just-something-in-the-air-that-s-miuccia-prada-s-influence.html?pagewanted=2