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Fashion Designers A to Z
Fashion Resource : Fashion Designers, Fashion Houses
& Designer Fashion Brands that we feel have been
most influential on 21st Century Fashion.
Fashion definition
Fashion, by definition, changes constantly. The change
may proceed more rapidly than in most other fields of
human activity.
The prevailing mode affecting modifications in costume,
that is in current mode.
To some Fashion is an art
form.
What is Fashion?
The prevailing style or custom. For most people Fashion
is a method of utilizing clothing, accessories and hair
to show or hide something about yourself. You can use
fashion to express yourself, to serve as an extension
of your personality.
Fashion in clothes has allowed wearers to express emotion
or solidarity with other people for thousands of years.
Modern Westerners have a wide choice available in the
selection of their clothes. What a person chooses to
wear can reflect their personality or likes. When people
who have cultural status start to wear new or different
clothes a fashion trend may start; people who like or
respect them may start to wear clothes of a similar
style.
Fashions may vary significantly within a society according
to age, social class, generation, occupation and geography
as well as over time.
Especially young people, enjoy the diversity that changing
fashion can apparently provide, seeing the constant
change as a way to satisfy their desire to experience
new and interesting things.
The latest and most admired trend setting style in
clothes and cosmetics is headed by leading establishments
for the creation of exclusive fashion : known as Haute
Couture.
Haute Couture
Haute couture (French for 'high sewing') is
a common term for high fashion as produced in
Paris and imitated in other fashion capitals such
as New York, London, and Milan. Sometimes it is
used only to refer to French fashion; at other
times it refers to any unique stylish design made
to order for wealthy and high-status clients.
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The term 'Haute Couture' refers to fashions created
by 'The Fashion Houses', or 'Fashion Designers'
that create exclusive and often trend-setting
fashions.
'Couture' refers to sewing, and haute refers
to 'high', or 'elegant'. Together they create
a standard of clothing that is made from the finest
quality materials, custom and hand done to fit
the client perfectly. An haute couture dress can
cost anywhere from £5,000 and upwards. |
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In France, the label 'haute couture' is a protected
appellation. A certain number of formal criteria
(number of employees, participation in fashion shows...)
must be met for a fashion house to use the label;
a list of eligible houses is made official every
year by the French Ministry of Industry. The haute
couture houses belong to the professional union
the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture. |
Fashion and status
Fashion can suggest or signal status in a social group.
Groups with high cultural status like to keep 'in fashion'
to display their position; people who do not keep 'in
fashion' within a so-called "style tribe"
can risk shunning because keeping 'in fashion' often
requires considerable amounts of money, fashion can
be used to show off wealth. Adherence to fashion trends
can form an index of social affluence and an indicator
of social mobility.
Fashion can help attract a partner. As well as showing
certain features of a person's personality that appeal
to prospective mates, keeping up with fashion can advertise
a person's status to such candidates. Perhaps even more
importantly, it sends a signal of superiority to potential
competitors of the same gender, who are frequently better
informed about what's fashionable than the potential
mates are. Conversely, a person who exhibits a fashion
style that rejects or deliberately tries to offend the
current trend may also have an advantage in finding
other like-minded individuals.
'Fashion sense' consists of the ability to tell what
clothing and/or accessories look good and what doesn't.
Since the entire notion of fashion depends on subjectivity,
so does the question of who possesses "fashion
sense". Some people style themselves as "fashion
consultants" and charge clients to help the latter
choose what to wear. Designers show the public what
is new and in style by using fashion models to display
the clothing. Image consultants help people revamp or
create fashion sense.
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