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En 2007, des millions de téléspectateurs découvrent L'Incroyable Famille Kardashian, une télé-réalité retraçant la vie d'une riche famille américaine – et plus particulièrement de leurs trois jeunes filles : Kim, Kourtney et Khloe. La famille a récemment annoncé que l’émission se terminerait en 2021, après plus de dix ans à vivre face caméra. Qui sont les Kardashian et comment ont-ils érigé un véritable empire médiatique ?
The Kardashian-Jenner family recently announced that after 20 seasons, their namesake reality TV show, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, would come to an end in 2021. Within years of the premiere in 2007, the women of the family and their matriarch “momager” became, in their own right, some of the most famous and influential people in the world. Here are a few of the ways the show changed not only TV, but culture at large: 1. namesake ici, portant leur nom / within dans; ici, ... au cours des années qui ont suivi... / momager = mom + manager (mère qui est aussi le manager de son enfant) / in one's own right à part entière / at large en général.
CELEBRITY CULTURE BOOMS
2. In its early seasons, the self-aware tackiness of Keeping Up With the Kardashians was evinced in the opening credits. The family, dressed in sequins and satin, stands against a cityscape backdrop. A goofy whistling tune plays as they pose for the camera and jockey for attention. These people, with their generously sized home and seemingly relaxed work schedules, are clearly well-off. But they’re also striving.
3. Fast forward seven years, and Kim is on the cover of Vogue with her husband, Kanye West. A few more years, and Kylie, the youngest, is named a billionaire (a designation since amended, but still, she’s loaded). All of them are owners of multimillion-dollar homes, followed by multiple millions of people on social media and vastly rich in entrepreneurial ventures. 4. It’s easy to say it could have happened to any family; even now, the idea that the Kardashians are “famous for doing nothing” remains persistent. But it wasn’t any family. And the numbers keep getting bigger.
AN EMPIRE IS BORN
5. First there was the store. Then the beauty collections (Kylie Cosmetics); a hit video game (Kim Kardashian: Hollywood); the clothing lines and countless brand collaborations. It’s not unusual for celebrities and influencers to create products that bear their names.
6. Now the landscape has changed, mostly by their own doing. The power is in their hands. Why rely on a show when you can reach your followers directly on social media, control your public image and make millions? (Billions?) That’s a sweet deal.
NEW BEAUTY STANDARDS
7. Have the Kardashian sisters gone under the knife? The family line, with a couple of
ily. But if the extended Kardashian ecosystem has taught us nothing else, it’s that we should also always look beneath a surface. Caitlyn and Kris Jenner each have six children. The Venn diagram of those 12 contains two, Kendall and Kylie — who some believe are the most potent of the species.
10. The announcement of her gender transition ate a significant amount of the news cycle of the middle of 2015, an otherwise uneventful year apparently. In setting the framing of the conversation, Caitlin may have changed hearts and minds among older and more conservative and more transphobic Americans.
ANOTHER SIDE OF KANYE
White House to speak with President Donald Trump about Alice Marie Johnson, a grandmother in her 60s who had received a life sentence for a nonviolent drug offense and had been in prison for 20 years. Kim learned about her case on social media. After the meeting, Trump granted Johnson clemency.
14. Over the last few years, Kim has made calls to politicians, written letters of support for clemency petitioners and paid legal fees for people seeking release. This spring, she headlined a documentary about incarcerated felons seeking a second chance and recently landed a deal for a podcast on the same subject. It would be easy to write off these efforts as an extension of her brand and influence, which they are. But they’re working.
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