Fashion

 

Fashion is a very vast field, it applies to apparel, clothing, accessories, footwear, cosmetics, makeup, hairstyle, lifestyle, body shapes and many more. Something that is form of self-expression and can be selected/chosen basis on individual’s interest or decision at a particular period or place in the context of clothing or apparel or lifestyle or footwear or look & appearance is called fashion. Globally, there is a set of people always prefers to adopt new trends and fashion, vis-à-vis, there is a set of people believes in being or using whatever comfortable for them, not bothered about fashion or trend. Fashion gets change periodically and basis on location or place, for example, Fashions of the 1990s in Europe or Fashions of the 2000s in US or Fashions of the 2010s of Asia etc, sometime, some fashion is being restricted into some timeframe/season in some country/countries, or, sometime, some fashion is forever globally. As this is a vast field and one article is not sufficient, in this article, I am sharing only general information!

Fashion

Fashion is popular aesthetic expression at a certain time and in a certain 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 

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 Giorgio 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.

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