Advanced Style Influencers: Confronting Gendered Ageism in Fashion and Beauty Markets

Ela Veresiu and Marie-Agnès Parmentier

Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, 2021, vol. 6, issue 2, 263 - 273

Abstract: A growing body of consumer research on intersectionality in the marketplace focuses on identifying overlapping oppressive consumer identity categories, such as gender and race. Yet this work tends to prioritize microlevel agency over power relations within structures and practices of domination. Drawing on the more transformative aspects of intersectionality theory, as well as a focused media and netnographic investigation of the Advanced Style movement in North America, we examine how advanced (aged 50+) female style influencers help transform the ageist and sexist fashion and beauty markets. Specifically, these women enact two forms of embodied resistance informed by the Western dominant discourse of successful aging (deconstructing gendered and ageist fashion and defying gendered and ageist beauty) using the social media platform Instagram. We conclude with future research directions on the transformative potential of embodied resistance for various doubly oppressive gendered and ageist marketplaces.

Date: 2021
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