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Fashion
Fashion is a popular aesthetic expression in a certain time and context, especially in clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle and body proportions. Whereas a trend often connotes a very specific aesthetic expression, and often lasting shorter than a season, fashion is a distinctive and industry-supported expression traditionally tied to the fashion season and collections. Style is an expression that lasts over many seasons, and is often connected to cultural movements and social markers, symbols, class and culture (ex. Baroque, Rococo, etc). According to sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, fashion connotes “the latest fashion, the latest difference.”Even though they are often used together, the term fashion differs from clothes and costume, where the first describes the material and technical garment, whereas the second has been relegated to special senses like fancy-dress or masquerade wear. Fashion instead describes the social and temporal system that “activates” dress as a social signifier in a certain time and context. Philosopher Georgio Agamben connects fashion to the current intensity of the qualitative moment, to the temporal aspect the Greek called kairos, whereas clothes belong to the quantitative, to what the Greek called chronos.Exclusive brands aspire for the label haute couture, but the term is technically limited to members of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris.With increasing mass-production of consumer commodities at cheaper prices, and with global reach, sustainability has become an urgent issue amongst politicians, brands and consumers.
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Fashion (noun)
A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.
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Fashion (noun)
Popular trends.
“Check out the latest in fashion.”
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Fashion (noun)
A style or manner in which something is done.
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Fashion (noun)
The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.
“the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.”
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Fashion (noun)
Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.
“men of fashion”
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Fashion (verb)
To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.
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Fashion (verb)
To make in a standard manner; to work.
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Fashion (verb)
To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.
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Fashion (verb)
To forge or counterfeit.
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Trend (noun)
An inclination in a particular direction.
“the trend of a coastline”
“the upward trend of stock-market prices”
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Trend (noun)
A tendency.
“There is a trend, these days, for people in films not to smoke.”
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Trend (noun)
A fad or fashion style.
“Miniskirts were one of the biggest trends of the 1960s.”
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Trend (noun)
A line drawn on a graph that approximates the trend of a number of disparate points.
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Trend (noun)
The lower end of the shank of an anchor, being the same distance on the shank from the throat that the arm measures from the throat to the bill.
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Trend (noun)
The angle made by the line of a vessel’s keel and the direction of the anchor cable, when she is swinging at anchor.
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Trend (noun)
Clean wool.
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Trend (verb)
To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend
“The shore of the sea trends to the southwest.”
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Trend (verb)
To cause to turn; to bend.
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Trend (verb)
To be the subject of a trend; to be currently popular, relevant or interesting.
“What topics have been trending on social networks this week?”
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Trend (verb)
To cleanse or clean (something, usually wool).