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Consuming the fashion tattoo

  • Lund University

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Abstract

From being considered a marginal and sometimes deviant behavior, the consumption of tattoos has become a mass consumer phenomenon. As tattoos have gained in popularity, it can be expected that the reasons for why people get tattoos have shifted as well. This paper explores consumers’ motivations for getting a fashion tattoo and the meaning associated with its consumption. Through phenomenological interviews with fashion tattooees, the themes 'art/fashion’, 'personalization and biographing’, 'contextual representation of self’, and 'meanings?’ are related to existing consumption theory.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Consumer Research
Volume32
PublisherAssociation for Consumer Research
Publication date2005
Pages172-177
Publication statusPublished - 2005
SeriesAdvances in Consumer Research
Volume32
ISSN0098-9258

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