Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton, Amanda Bynes and Lindsay Lohan. They are just a few names of people which form a daily source of news and gossip. You can read exactly what they are doing, where they went shopping and what kind of issues they have. Every outfit they where is analyzed and there are always enough stylists available to give their opinion about what they wear. A couple of those “stars” have not done a lot to be called that (for example the first two women became the middle of attention just because of their sex tapes). It is something I never understood. It is unbelievable that people with so little talent have become icons which everyone would seem to want to read about and even emulate. Still there are a lot of young people (and older ones too) who are very willing to spend a lot of money on a specific bag or a shoe because someone they look up to also has it. It is a form of materialism where a person hopes that having that item gives them status. The Bling Ring is about a group of young people, who would love to live the life of a star en instead of buying the items simply break into the houses of the stars to take what they want. Continue reading →