Fashion Images

Fashion may be defined as the "prevailing style during a particular time the prevailing style(as in dress) during a particular time. It may also be known as "social standing or prominence especially as signalized by dress or conduct." ^[1] The following article addresses the issues of fashion as a symbol, fashion images as a symbol, and the aftermath of these images.

Anti-Fashion

Anti-fashion was the major fashion movement of the 1990s, and throughout the 2000s was still widely relevant. Anti-fashion is a minimalist style that implies no colors, labels or designs. Example: blank black t-shirt, black pants (jeans, or regular pants) and black combat boots (pants over them or tucked in).

Fashion Show

A fashion show is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase his or her upcoming line of clothing. In a typical fashion show, models walk the catwalk dressed in the clothing created by the designer. Occasionally, fashion shows take the form of installations, where the models are static, standing or sitting in a constructed environment. The order in which each model walks out wearing a specific outfit is usually planned in accordance to the statement that the designer wants to make about his or her collection. The way that each outfit is presented on the catwalk isn't necessarily the way the designer is trying to make people wear his or her creations in everyday life. In this instance, this is more of an intellectual–artistic construction of the designer for the same purpose of making a statement or presenting a particular idea.^{[citation needed]} It is then up to the audience to not only try to understand what the designer is trying to say by the way the collection is being presented, but to also visually deconstruct each outfit and try to appreciate the detail and craftsmanship of every single piece. A wide range of contemporary designers tend to produce their shows as theatrical productions with elaborate sets and added elements such as live music or a variety of technological component like holograms, for example.

Fashion Illustration

Fashion Illustration is the communication of fashion that originates with illustration, drawing and painting. It is usually commissioned for reproduction in fashion magazines as one part of an editorial feature or for the purpose of advertising and promoting fashion makers, fashion boutiques and department stores.

History of Fashion

History of Fashion

The category history of fashion generally describes modern clothing from the post-WWII era to the present.

Clothing popularly worn in Medieval Europe is categorised under Category:History of clothing (Europe). Clothing worn in Western Europe, the Americas, and countries under European or American influence during the early modern period (c. 1750 to World War II) is categorised under Category:History of clothing (Western fashion)

Articles on clothing history that cover multiple eras are listed under the supercategory Category:History of clothing.

History of Clothing

The history of clothing encompasses the clothes worn in various places at various times and the methods by which those clothes were made or acquired.

Subcategories organized by date:

• History of clothing (ancient Greece) covers
  • clothing worn by Greek-speaking peoples settlers near the Aegean Sea from 1600 BC to 330 AD (the Mycenaean, classical, Hellenistic, and Roman eras), up to the beginning of the Byzantine Empire (330 AD).
• History of clothing (Byzantine) covers
  • Clothing worn in the Byzantine empire (330 AD - 1453 AD)
• Category:History of clothing (Europe) covers
  • Clothing worn in Europe from the dawn of the Middle Ages (loosely c. 350-500 AD) to the birth of modern Western fashion around 1750.
  • Folkwear or traditional dress worn in Europe from ancient times to the present day.
• Category:History of clothing (Western fashion) covers
  • clothing worn in Western Europe, the Americas, and countries under European or American influence from c. 1750 to World War II.
• Category:History of fashion covers
  • clothing worn from c. WWII to the modern day.

Fashion Occupations

Fashion Occupations

Hairdressing
Hat Makers
Modeling
Buyer (Fashion)
Dressmaker
Fashion Journalism
Millinery
Personal Stylist
Prudence Millinery
Wardrobe stylist
Carousel Designers
Furniture Designers
Designer (Fashion)
Architectural Designer
Elevator Consultant
Pixel Artist
And Etc..

Fashion Models

Fashion Models

Models may be used to display and promote clothing. Fashion modeling may involve catwalk or runway modeling or editorial modeling, covering photography for magazine spreads, ad campaigns, catalogues, print etc. The emphasis of fashion photography is on the clothes or accessories, not the model. Fashion models may be used to display or promote various types of clothing, such as lingerie, swimsuit, and bikini. Models may be used in showroom, fit modeling, fitness or sporty modeling. Some are used for petite modeling or plus-size modeling.

The first person described as a fashion model is Parisian shopgirl, Marie Vernet Worth. She was a house model in 1853, to her fashion designer husband, Charles Frederick Worth.

Female Body Type

The British Association of Model Agents (AMA) says that female models should be around 34-24-34 in (86-61-86 cm) and at least 5 ft 8 in (1.73 m) tall.^[3] The ideal measurements used to be 35.5-23.5-35.5 in (90-60-90 cm) which were the alleged measurements of Marilyn Monroe. However, today's fashion models tend to have measurements closer to the AMA recommended shape, although by no means all models have these exact statistics, and fashion houses may require other sizes for their models.

Male Body Type

The preferred average dimensions for a male model are a height of 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m) to 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m), a waist of 26–33 in (66.04–83.82 cm) and a chest measurement of 32–40 in (81.28–101.60 cm).

Fashion Journalism

Fashion Journalism is an umbrella term used to describe all aspects of published fashion media. It includes fashion writers, fashion critics or fashion reporters. The most obvious examples of fashion journalism are the fashion features in magazines and newspapers, but the term also includes books about fashion, fashion related reports on television as well as online fashion magazines, websites and blogs. Since pieces more often than not deal with "tendencies" and "trends", which are subjective by nature, and due to a sometimes tenuous relation with facts, the term "journalism" is used as a monicker, but does not carry the overall procedural and deontological aspects of professional journalism. The work of a fashion journalist can be quite varied. Typical work includes writing or editing articles, or helping to formulate and style a fashion shoot. A fashion journalist typically spends a lot of time researching and/or conducting interviews and it is essential that he or she has good contacts with people in the fashion industry, including photographers, designers, and public relations specialists. Fashion journalists are either employed full time by a publication or are employed on a freelance basis. The career has grown in importance with the release of films such as The Devil Wears Prada and Confessions of a Shopaholic, and television series such as Ugly Betty.

Fashion Photography

Fashion Photography is a genre of photography devoted to displaying clothing and other fashion items. Fashion photography is most often conducted for advertisements or fashion magazines such as Vogue, Vanity Fair, or Allure. Over time, fashion photography has developed its own aesthetic in which the clothes and fashions are enhanced by exotic locations and story lines or could be having great models with different vehicles or animals just to be an eye catching effect.

Fashion Design

Fashion Design is the applied art dedicated to clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time.

It is considered to have a planned obsolescence usually of one to two seasons. A season is defined as either autumn/winter or spring/summer.

Nowadays, even though French, British, Japanese and American fashion are the top in style, Italian fashion is considered the most important and elegant in design and it has led the world of fashion since the 1970s and '80s.

Fashion

Fashion is the style and custom 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^{[citation needed]}. In this sense, fashions are a sort of communal art, through which a culture examines its notions of beauty and goodness.

Fashion Sense

Knowledge of how to dress fashionably.