Looksmaxxing or Old Money Face – can everyone become perfect?
Hear a journalist, a fashion scholar and a psychologist discuss who benefits when beauty becomes something technology can measure and change.
Practical
- When
- Swedish time (CET)
- Duration
- 1 hour 30 minutes
- Where
- Tekniska restaurantMuseivägen 7, 115 27 StockholmMap and directions
The perfect body has become a technology project, and this conversation asks who can afford to keep up. Journalist Erik Galli, fashion scholar and historian Emma Severinsson, and psychology professor Ata Ghaderi discuss looksmaxxing, where appearance is analysed and optimised, alongside the “old money face” ideal: looking as if no effort was needed. Journalist Samanda Ekman moderates.
The discussion connects historical beauty standards with injections, surgery and digital filters, and considers how technology blurs the lines between healthcare, beauty and self-optimisation. It also asks who gets access to the tools and treatments, and how class, gender and ethnicity shape who can afford to change their body and who is left out. For visitors interested in how beauty ideals become tied to technology and status, the conversation examines who sets the limits and how bodies are shaped for algorithmic feeds.
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- Listed at visitstockholm.com.
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