• D-Signed for Girls: Disney Channel and Tween Fashion

    Author(s):
    Morgan Blue (see profile)
    Date:
    2013
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, Feminist Humanities
    Subject(s):
    Mass media--Study and teaching, Popular culture--Study and teaching, Television
    Item Type:
    Article
    Tag(s):
    celebrity studies, Disney, girlhood studies, postfeminism, youth culture, Gender studies, Media studies, Popular culture studies
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M69G95
    Abstract:
    The introduction of Disney’s first proprietary tween fashion collection, called D-Signed, marks an unprecedented expansion of synergistic marketing strategies for comprehensive lifestyle branding to the tween girl market in the United States. The production and exponential growth of this particular fashion collection allow girls to literally (at Target stores or at home) and virtually (via sponsored online dress-up games and social networks) try on the ‘edgy’ fashions of Sonny Munroe (played by Demi Lovato), among many other lines inspired by Disney Channel’s girl characters. Exploring the promotion of and inspiration for the D-Signed fashion collection, this article employs media industries analysis in conjunction with discursive and ideological textual analysis to advance an understanding of how fashion functions economically and ideologically in relation to television as a site of lifestyle marketing to tween girls. This project aims to address gaps in girls’ media culture scholarship and theorizations of postfeminist girlhoods through an exploration of how contemporary girlhood is constructed in the Disney empire. Thus, this article asks, how might the D-Signed fashion collection function, discursively and economically, as a site for the reproduction and performance of a form of idealized, postfeminist tween girlhood? And how do fashion lines affiliated with Disney Channel programmes function within and beyond Disney’s entertainment empire?
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    Published as:
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    Pub. DOI:
    10.1386/ffc.2.1.55_1
    Publisher:
    Intellect
    Pub. Date:
    2013
    Journal:
    Film, Fashion & Consumption
    Volume:
    2
    Issue:
    1
    Page Range:
    55 - 75
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    6 years ago
    License:
    All Rights Reserved
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