Two Enduring Truths About Fashion

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

In the last few years fashion has reached a plateau. Store brands continue to search for a middle ground to expand a profit or risk losing customers. In the process innovation is lost, the essence of fashion is creativity sparked by the mind. Ideas put into physical form to shape the human body.

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

Defining fashion is extremely important in order to determine its influence on social class in society. The use of the word fashion here does not

INTRODUCTION Fashion has been one of the most evolving phenomenon since the existence of the human species on the Earth. With the vast improvements in the society, the fashion industry has evolved from simple clothing to fancy modern clothing. In the 1980’s, fashion had become a vital part for the men and women in the Australian society. This decade of power dressing had introduced a variety of trends for men and women that became an important part of the popular culture. Each and every trend of the 80’s had its own history and significance of the people.

As we have learned previously people who have disabilities have a hard time finding clothing that fit and are comfortable to wear. Caitlyn Pallas presented “You can’t sit with us” the fashion industries effect of the body image of people with disabilities to help teach the class the struggles she has gone through since she has became disabled. Caitlyn fell out of a dress and became paralyzed from the chest down during her sophomore year of college. She had to re-learn how to do everything things like using her hands, putting makeup on and getting dressed. She explained how she believes that people with disabilities are objectified in the media to make other people feel better which takes away from the people who have disabilities that deserve to be celebrated. Through her own experiences she learned that special fit clothing is not typically stylish and there is not

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.

Elizabeth Wilson discusses this in ‘Adorned in Fashion’. She examines modernism’s constant creation of the new ideal persona rather than embracing individualism. Wilson argues that ‘new fashion starts from the rejection of the old and often an eager embracing of what was previously considered ugly’ (Wilson, Elizabeth. 2007). Hence fashion goes through a life cycle as Marilyn DeLong describes in ‘Fashion, Theories of’. This process circulates from birth, maturity and death, followed by rebirth. Hence fashion evolves from the past, revisiting and reinterpreting it in order to infuse it into a modern context for the continual generation of new innovations. Therefore fashion can be seen as a medium in which expresses a duality between the past and present, like in a woman’s identity. These texts respond to my research question as they make it clear that fashion in Western society cannot be acknowledged without acknowledging the past. This is because fashion evolved from the past. Thus facets of the past are naturally embedded in fashion. I will emphasis this by embedding the past more prominently within Western society and fashion today through the adornment of nature on the body in reference to our past origins which fostered a connection to nature more

Above all, fashion has changed a great deal over the past centuries. As history changes, it seems that fashion in some aspect changes with it to adapt to the era. Even today fashion continues to change as the years go on. Looking at fashion even 20 years ago people can see a difference from what they see in their everyday lives. In “Clothing and Fashion: American Fashion from

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.

Clothes are one of the three basic human needs of life; They are worn to protect humans from the elements. Not only are garments used just for protection they are also used to cover specific areas of the body for many reasons. Garments are worn by people either as a statement to show off one's personality, status, or lifestyle, or for work purposes. Every person has their own specific style based off of their personalities, but when it comes down to dressing does everyone know how to use the elements of art to dress the best way for their figure type? When it comes to garments and body shapes, there are four elements of fashion design. These are elements which designers apply to make garments look more flattering on any figure type. One of the elements of fashion design is line. Lines are marks that span a distance between two points. There are five types of lines, vertical, horizontal, diagonal, zig zag, and curved lines. Each of these lines  help enhance the figure types and dress the best for their body shape.

What is Fashion? Fashion is a general term used to describe a style of clothing or practice used by people around the world. Fashion refers to anything that is a trend. Self-presentation is the most direct noticeable marker of fashion. Throughout history we have seen many changes in clothing, from the color, to the material used to make it. We have also seen the style in which clothing is made change drastically. Fashion communicates meanings that have individual and social significance. Society, cultures, gender and even political authority have impacted fashion over the years. Clothing styles characterize certain designs which represent the culture that wears the clothing. Designers continue to try to direct their ideas to a transforming

“Oscar Wild said that fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months” (Langdown, 2014, p.34). When the time comes to the 20th century the iteration of fashion has been accelerated based on the development of the fashion industry in the 19th

When you think of the word fashion, what do you think? Do you think about outrageous runway outfits? Cocktail dresses? Tracksuits? Whatever your impression of fashion, it is obvious that fashion plays an important role in today's society. We are judged by our clothing and appearance on an everyday basis, so why not make the most of our choices?

Although fashion is intended to function as a form of communication—allowing one to practice freedom of expression and creativity—the lack of agency in the consumers and industry, accompanied by mass consumption and a mass consumer society, allows fashion to easily establish conventional frameworks that restricts self-expression and even alienate some identities. Once a perspective on a certain identity or a group forms a design or an image, the fast pace and mass consumption of fashion imprints the representation as a social standard and reverses the intent of fashion: people fail to use fashion to create their identity, but are governed by this social product to fit into a category.