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Atelier (on Netflix)

This is quite an interesting show - despite the surface subject matter - which happens to be set in Japan in a designer made-to-order lingerie shop.  It is in no way prurient or deliberately provocative; in fact, it's almost the opposite, and quite understated.  It is about strong women characters who are committed to their idealism, and a personal expression of what they consider their inner beauty, reflected in their choices of how they dress etc.  It even derides the mass culture of fashion, and the corruption of paid-for-advertorials and agendas in women's magazines.  Fashion, in their eyes, is about setting your own style, and not buying into this month's cultural fad.

This Ra quote came to mind in regards to standards of cultural beauty:

Perhaps the most notable exception is the attitude of one already strongly polarized negatively towards the appearance of the body complex.

There are those entities upon the negative path which take great care in the preservation of the distortion your peoples perceive as fairness/ugliness.

This fairness of form is, of course, then used in order to manipulate other-selves.

Japan still retains it's own style and cultural stamp.  Most notably in their elaborate expressions of public apologies.

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