American Fashion Industry in 21st Century

Fashion is very important in modern day society, and can be seen all around. Most of what people know about fashion today came from the fashion during the renaissance. From the vibrant fabrics to the spectacular jewels, renaissance fashion has been thoroughly threaded in the fashion of modern society. Modern day women often wear shorty, fun gowns, tightly fitting jeans, and lower cut tops. Popular fashion trends for men in modern society include saggy jeans, V-neck shirts, and stylish watches. “A fashion is merely a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months” (Oscar Wilde). Fashion in modern day society is ever changing, but most changes do not stray too far from the original product.

Fashion is everything to society and the media. The fashion industry has transformed into a necessity in the life of people. Everyone wants to look good, feel fabulous and feel as if we belong with everyone else. The envy and desire to wear certain things and look a certain way all come, from wearing the latest fashion handbags, accessories, dresses, shoes, and the list goes on. But, when is considering fashion into an individual’s life going too far to the extreme? Many do not consider the whereabouts of fashion materials and how the environment is affected by the mere existence of certain garments. Some may believe these objects grow on trees. But that is clearly not the case. Even though it would be nice. The fashion industry as a

The fashion industry is rapidly growing and constantly generating new fashion trends almost weekly. Fashion for some may seem ridiculous and unnecessary; but fashion is not just a meaningless usage of article of clothing or farcical materials sew together for coverage. There is more to fashion than meets the eyes, fashion is precious and significant. It is a reflection of self-image, it speak the ream about who we are and how we review ourselves. Not only is fashion the reflection of self-image but also the reflection of our history as Coco Channel have said, “Fashion is not something that exist in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.” Fashion

Fashion does not simply consist of the clothes we pick out of our closets in the morning. That daily decision only constitutes the last step of a much larger process, foreign sweatshops, multi-billion-dollar businesses, celebrities on red carpets, and sophisticated advertising campaigns. Fashion emerges out of pattern-making and design, the cultivation and production of raw materials, the manufacturing process, and the distribution of the finished product. Although all this creates the materials, fashion is more than just cloth and jewels. Fashion is the expression of oneself whether it's based on emotion, fashion trends, or music videos.

Fashion in this era has been the ideal transformation since the time of the 1800s. It has said to be the most iconic thing thus far. Throughout the years, fashion has always been served as a mean of self-expression and communication among of individuals. We have watched the transition of dull to classy, to chic, vintage and more. Fashion shows the uniqueness of others when they express their own style ,it wasn’t really common back then, but now in the modern day that we live in it has been brought up to existence through clothing.

“When you try on something, you have to ask yourself, 'How many ways could I wear this? Could I wear it to work? To dinner or drinks? Will it span the seasons' If you have to think too hard about those questions, then skip it.” Said by Michael Kors. Fashion has been around over centuries. People have become more interested in their image to make them self-feel better and also to impress others. This new invention opened doors to a lot of people around the world. It has created interaction with country overseas and so much more today. Fashion had been a way to express your self because it embraces your personality in a unique way.

Nike, Victoria’s Secret, GAP, Levis, Nordstrom, Calvin Klein. Other than their status as large fashion retailers, they all have one thing in common: the International Textile Garment and Leather Workers’ Federation condemns their use of overseas sweatshops. Goods manufactured in Sri Lanka, Indonesia, and many other Asian and African countries are often made in less-than-ideal conditions for low wages. While opponents of overseas labor champion stricter trading laws, this form of supply-and-demand economics remains a vital part of the global economy, as it enables prices to remain low in developed countries and employs many individuals in distant, poorer areas.

When people hear brand names such as Nike and Gap, most individuals will immediately associate the brands with fashionable and expensive designer products. It is no doubt that most people have worn an item with these particular brand names on them. However, many may not know that under the soft clothing and recognizable brands lies a very different story. Sweatshops date all the way back to the late eighteenth century. They did not have Gap or Nike, but they had huge textile industries. Back then, they attracted many of the poor to rapidly growing big cities, such as London, and soon became a common way for low-skilled workers to earn money. Although sweatshops mostly exist in places with third world living conditions, it affects people on an international level. Today, Cambodia’s textile industry plays a key role in the exporting and manufacturing of garments worldwide. However, exploitation by factory owners, and lack of sweatshop monitoring led to heinous living conditions for garment workers (Meyers). During the past couple of years, garment workers have started to speak out for themselves, protesting on the streets, but while the wages of the workers did improve, it came with a price.

In today’s society fashion itself is a way we express ourselves and how we as human being tends to show the world who we are. People can dress up, dress down, wear jeans, dresses, or any type of clothing that allows them to share their individuality. Fashion in the late 1800’s people did not looking at fashion as a way to express themselves but rather a way of covering themselves so that they don’t show their body so people dont judge them. in European and European-influenced countries saw the final triumph of undress or informal styles over the brocades, lace, periwigs and powder of the earlier 18th century. In the aftermath of the French Revolution, no one wanted to appear to be a member of the French aristocracy, and people began using

The fashion industry fuels the message that “the way to solve your problems is to consume more.” Therefore, making people buy things they don’t really need. Currently there are “80 billion clothes sold a year” and “40 million garment workers.” This industry encourages people to buy things based of their wants and not their needs, sometimes people buy clothes they never wear in their life so this means that these poor people working in sweatshops are getting abused and producing clothes for no reason.

We all like to wear the newest most fashionable clothes for a cheap price. What we fail to think about while purchasing these items is how it made it to the store in the first place; someone had to make the clothes you are wearing but who? After some research, I found our cheap fashion is coming from working children from all over the world. Receiving clothes from foreign countries like Brazil and many more is doing more harm than good to the working children, and the working conditions for these children should be safer. The practice has caused people to buy cheap fashion without realizing the consequence of the children who made it.

Child labor is not only a tremendous problem in the fashion industry but millions of children are tied up in paid or unpaid domestic, manual, agricultural and many other forms of work worldwide, leaving them helpless to abuse. Lingered in poverty, child labor impedes chances of gainful future employment, by lacking to assure all children are receiving a reasonable education. Asking someone if the clothes they wear are fairly made in other countries, is a hard question to answer for many. Fast fashion is appealing to us, the consumers because it allows us to feel, “rich” by hopping on ever-changing trends without blowing up our wallets. Child labor violates minimum wage laws, threatens children’s psychical, mental or emotional well-being, involves

Social and cultural changes are major determinants of emerging fashions. However, they are themselves affected by the other drivers of change that include globalization of world markets and accessibility of more sophisticated communications technologies. The latter has provided people with faster and wider access to more ideas and influences from other cultures and societies, driving demand for wider choice in fashion products.

Fashion is a manner and style especially clothes, shoes, makeup and hairstyle. When I came from my home country, I have not much knowledge about fashion, and even do not know more about fashion brand. I was learning from technology, school and start follows American fashion. In eighteen century, people were also very fashionable as we are mostly seeing in the old films and pictures. The fashion was started from Europe and England because on that time Kings and Queens were fashionable and spends money on luxury items. The Queen Elizabeth has famous because of fashion and style, because she is wearing bright dresses, necklace etc. The brands we are use now a day’s also established in many years back like Coach is in the fashion for last 75years. Now a day’s fashion is change every spring, summer and fall because people are more creative to do something different. Social media is the main source to develop the latest fashion between new generations. People are follows facebook, twitter, instagram because celebrities, models, and companies share their fashion with public. In the twenty century people have jobs and money that’s why they start spending on technology, and fashion, on the other side there are competition in the fashion industry so it’s difficult to compete it.

A lot has changed and evolved in the history of fashion since the 1900s. As the century dawned, fashion was an exclusive enterprise, the pursuit of wealth. The average person in society settled for garments that were usually stitched at home. With time, however, networks of neighborhood tailors began to evolve into a retail history and the boom was followed by boutique selling.