FASHION
Fashion is the style that are accepted and used by a particular group of people at a given time. It’s what designers create for a selected population which later becomes a trend. To be a fashion an item must possess style. It must be unique and different from regulars. Fashion must over time change. Fashion is current that refers to the styles in clothes, cosmetics, foot wears, life style and behavior.
Fashion is like a train. It will come and go. If you like it, go with it otherwise wait for the next one. It changes from one period to the next, from generation to generation. It serves as a reflection of social and economic status, a fashion that explains the popularity of many style through the costume history in the west court have been a major source of fashion. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, fashion increasingly became a profitable, international industry as a result of the rise of world renowned fashion houses and fashion magazines.
Fashion History
Rose Bertin (July 2, 1747-September 22, 1813) was the dressmaker to Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, and a figure who may be said to have begun the transition from relatively little-known dressmakers to designers with a high public profile. Sometimes called sarcastically the "Minister of Fashion", she opened a shop in Paris and had a considerable influence on Parisian style, until this was drastically changed by the French Revolution, from which she fled into exile in London for some years. By the end of the 19th-century, the horizons of the fashion industry had generally 'broadened ', partly due to the more stable and independent lifestyle many well-off women were beginning to adopt and the practical clothes they demanded. However, the fashions of the La Belle Époque still retained the elaborate, upholstered style of the 19th century. The changing of fashion was unthinkable so the use of different trimmings was all that distinguished one season
References: Encyclopedia of World Art, Vol. IV (1961): London, McGraw- Hill Publishing Company.