Lipstick bans and K-Pop billboards share a lineage—beauty as politics. In the 2020s global soft-power race, Seoul Fashion Week livestreams, Dubai influencer visas, and the Paris Olympics’ design diplomacy show how nations now export aesthetics the way they once exported oil or steel. Visual cue: collage of a K-Pop
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A fairy tale empire turned corporate kingdom. How Disney rewrote imagination into property and built the modern myth machine.
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