Noun

Singular fashion

Plural countable and uncountable; plural fashions

fashion (countable and uncountable; plural fashions)

1. (countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
2. (countable) A style, or manner, in which to do something.
3. (uncountable) Popular trends.

   Check out the latest in fashion.

Derived terms

• fashionable
• fashionably
• fashion collection
• fashion designer

• fashion model
• fashion plate
• fashion police
• fashion show

• fashion victim
• fashion week
• in fashion
• like it's going out of fashion

Related terms

• fact
• faction

• factor
• factorial

• factory

Fashion refers to the styles and customs prevalent at a given time. In its most common usage however, "fashion" describes the popular clothing style. Many fashions are popular in many cultures at any given time. Important is the idea that the course of design and fashion will change more rapidly than the culture as a whole. Fashion designers create and produce clothing articles.

The terms "fashionable" and "unfashionable" were employed to describe whether someone or something fits in with the current or even not so current, popular mode of expression. However, more so in the modern era items termed 'not so current' may indeed fit into the term 'Retro.' Retro fashion allows rule shifts, such as 'old is suddenly new,' thus fashionable. The term "fashion" is frequently used in a positive sense, as a synonym for glamour, beauty and style. In this sense, fashions are a sort of communal art, through which a culture examines its notions of beauty and goodness. The term "fashion" is also sometimes used in a negative sense, as a synonym for fads and trends, and materialism.

There exist a number of cities recognized as global fashion centers or fashion capitals. Fashion Weeks are held in these cities where designers exhibit their new clothing collections to audiences. The main four cities are Paris, Milan, New York, and London - these four are renowned for their major influence on global fashion and are headquarters to the greatest fashion companies. Other cities, including Tokyo, Los Angeles, Berlin, Rome, Buenos Aires,Toronto, Hong Kong, São Paulo, Sydney, Moscow, New Delhi and Miami also hold fashion weeks and are better recognized every year.

Fashion refers to styles of dress (but can also include cuisine, literature, art, architecture, and general comportment) that are popular in a culture at any given time. Such styles may change quickly, and "fashion" in the more colloquial sense refers to the latest version of these styles. Inherent in the term is the idea that the mode will change more quickly than the culture as a whole.

Quotes

• Fashions Change, But Change Is Always The Fashion
  • Anonymous.

• “Innovators are the cool ones who ‘pump’ new fashions into our world,” Dr Bentley said. “Most are ignored, but some get copied.”
  • Anonymous.

• Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
  • Oscar Wilde

• A woman without a coat hanger is like a man without a sock: always looking for one.
  • Anonymous

External links

• Fashion Catalog