I decided to do my revisionist storytelling piece based on the story of Cinderella. I chose this story because it has always been one of my favorites and is a classic. In my opinion, the biggest turning point of the story was when Cinderella’s fairy godmother transformed her rags into riches, a beautiful ball gown and glass slippers. Those slippers then became the most valuable thing Cinderella ever has. Not only did the slippers lead Cinderella to true love, but they helped her escape her previous lifestyle of servitude and transition into a world of wealth and prestige as a princess.
I decided to transform this story into a more modern version that’s intertwined with society’s use of cell phones and social media. Rather than a fairy godmother transforming Cinderella into who she wants to be, she follows other people’s social media influence and online orders the outfit she wants. I want to alter it in this way because it’s much more relatable to society today. Consumerism is at an all time high because people want to fit in with global social trends and I intend to show this through my design. Cinderella is able to use social media to become the “ideal” version of herself more quickly than she would have been able to in her original story. While in a sense she is more independent without the godmother, she is unintentionally more dependent on her phone.
