Not one identity, but many: A large exhibition in Stuttgart shows Cindy Sherman’s biting comments on luxury fashion, influencers and fashion victims.
Who is successful? Female managers, politicians, athletes or Instagram users who appear “authentic”. Most of the guidebooks and life optimization books of the early 21st century can probably agree on this keyword. Only: Calling something “‘authentic’ leaves no room for fuzziness, irony, changing facets” (according to the literary scholar Erik Schilling in “Authenticity. Career of a longing”).