Mash-up of articles

Strength and influence

Obama had American society breathless when earlier this year, he told the teeming masses, Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin the work of remaking America. Madonna, the one they come to see above all others, has London theatre society waiting for the moment where she sets a new course from her own Hollywood persona to “intelligent, scrupulously disciplined comic acting”.

Prada, action-orientated, and accountable, has once again altered the course of fashion, reports intensified interest in placing the fashion house on the Milan-stock exchange bringing it Up For Grabs. Miccucia Prada’s decision, is an evolutionary leap, involving a new generation offering an important bellwhether.

To compete, when the critics report back about a lack of confidence in the economy, Obama needs to turn heads again, by appearing energized and focused on the challenges of strengthening the economy, rebuilding American industry and restoring confidence in our integrity at home and abroad.

For Madonna, it is the foundation for growth, for Obama, it’s the power to lead the public, and for Miccucia Prada it is setting the pace of fashion that provides them with influence in an evolutionary economy.

1. Derek T. Dingle “President Obama: our new chief executive pledges to remake the nation.” Black Enterprise 39.8 March, 2009 http://find.galegroup.com.viviena.library.unsw.edu.au/itx/printdoc.do?contentSet=IAIM (accessed May 11^th 2009)

2. Matt Wolf “Madonna to materialise and already adored” The Australian April 17, 2002

http://global.factiva.com.viviena.library.unsw.edu.au/aa/default.aspx?pp=Print&hc=P, (accessed May 11^th 2009)

3. Suzanne Kapner “Prada Goes Shopping” Fortune September 1, 2008

http://proquest.umi.com.viviena.library.unsw.edu.au/pqdlink?did=1534460821&Fmt=3&clientld=25620&RQT=309&Vname=PQD (accessed May 11^th 2009)