"image consciousness" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to refer to the importance placed on one's outward appearance, typically in social or professional contexts. For example, "He was so image conscious that he wouldn't leave the house without making sure his hair and clothes were perfectly styled."
What role do social media, which encourage relentless image consciousness, play in our shopping choices?
The lectures and sketches comprising this work make available the most profound and comprehensive Husserlian account of image consciousness.
As a comment on American might, entitlement and image consciousness it is as effective and as two-dimensional as a political cartoon, but like everything else in their exhibition, it has an unsentimental harshness that is something of an accomplishment.
His ethics were also, alas, highly situational: Rasheeda Moore, the model who supplied him with crack in the FBI sting, also received $180,000 in city funds to run an "image consciousness" programme.
The Wall Street Journal has chronicled the return of the man girdle … Speaking of male body-image consciousness, let's talk about Abercrombie & Fitch.
But unlike the Y's, the J.C.C.'s adhere to an image-consciousness consistent with the times.
He demonstrated a gift for addressing the image-consciousness of funky teenagers and that of sober businessmen alike.
But there is a keen image-consciousness in Governor Bush's world these days, clear in the many instances of bungled or assiduous stage management.
Their image-consciousness makes them ideal consumers, said Wurtzel: "If alpha boomers aren't vain, I don't know who is".
In one paper he evokes the image of "consciousness riding into the sunset".
In our opinion, the former is more meaningful because it marks the emergence of the new image into consciousness, while the latter marks the end of the transition period, during which the new image was already partially perceived.
