What is the fashion cycle? Fashion cycle – a period of time or life span during which the fashion exists‚ moving through the five stages from introduction through obsolescence. – When a customer purchases and wears a certain style‚ that style is considered accepted. The acceptance leads to the style becoming a fashion! Fashions do not always survive from year to year GOAL: The ability to gauge the timeliness or occurrence at the right time‚ of a fashion is critical in the development and marketing
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Fashion as Art: Is fashion today considered a high art form worthy of being exhibited in museums? What is fashion? Is it art? Is it high art? In the world of fashion and art today‚ this is a contested question. Many art critics do not see fashion as an equal to the fine arts such as painting and sculpture. Critics have made remarks that fashion design should be “under the heading of vanity for its intent is of no inner value” (Miller 25-40). Edmund Burke and Immanuel Kant both
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Is Fashion Important? Fashion means a general term of a famous style or practice; this is more especially in clothing‚ footwear‚ makeup‚ body piercing‚ and furniture. Also fashion may refer to a very distinctive and more often habitual trend speaking of the style which one dresses‚ as well as in prevailing styles in behavior. Fashion may also refer to the newest innovations of textile designers. On the technical form the term costume is so connected with the term fashion in which the use of the
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week’s task I had to read a quite difficult extract from ‘Fashion as Communication’ by Malcolm Barnard about how fashion is regarded in today’s society‚ whether it is trivial or not and highlighting how important it is in today’s economy. The first idea exposed is that fashion is ‘fit only for the intellectually disenfranchised’‚ suggesting that everyone working in the fashion industry lacks intelligence. Having chosen to study Fashion Marketing I completely disagree with this statement‚ but
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introduced to the world of fashion‚ unfortunately‚ it wasn’t very successful; lately there has been a change of situation and that is what we are going to attempt to understand. For almost twenty years now‚ people have been relying on fast fashion‚ a fairly new notion‚ which entails rapid garment production in a cost efficient manner. This efficiency is attained through the retailers understanding of the customer’s wants‚ which consist in having high fashion looking garments at reasonable
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Alycia Griffin Professor Michael Bedsole English 101 16 September 2012 Fashion Junkie Every company wants to have fresh ideas for their ad campaigns‚ to draw in their audience. Sisley attempted to draw the consumer in using an advertisement that depicted two women participating in illicit behaviors. The advertisement may have been considered humorous‚ had it not been so vulgar. Sisley’s attempt at reeling the consumer in resulted in an effect that definitely caught the eyes of their targeted
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A fashion show is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase his or her upcoming line of clothing during Fashion Week. Fashion shows debut every season‚ particularly the Spring/Summer and Fall/Winter seasons. This is where the latest fashion trends are made. The two most influential fashion weeks are Paris Fashion Week and New York Fashion Week‚ which are both semiannual events. Types of fashion The garments produced by clothing manufacturers fall into three main categories‚ although these
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Statement: For teenagers‚ fashion is first and foremost a social statement. It is an outward means of expression to their peers and the rest of the world. Identity: Fashion also provides teenagers a sense of identity by signaling which "grouping" they belong to ("prep‚" "punk‚" "goth‚" etc.). It may also signal a more independent or inclusive personality. Attraction: Teens can be extremely conscious about overall image when it comes to sexual attraction. They will often exploit fashion as a means to attract
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Essay question: Does the fashion industry exist mainly to persuade people to spend money on things they do not need? In my opinion‚the fashion industry do not not exist mainly to persuade people to spend money on things they do not need. Everybody is free to decide if they want to spend money on fashion or not. First of all‚ we have to understand: what is fashion industry? With its beginnings in the late 17th century‚ the fashion industry is a globalized sector that works to meet the demand for
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FASHION HUB EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Introduction Nowadays‚ bags were treated as a fashion accessories and necessities. Bag manufacturing industry is vastly influenced by fashion trends. Tastes of consumer are always looking for something new. Bags are adorned with embellishment of hardware accessories like metal studs‚ tassels‚ buckles‚ zips‚ beads‚ embroidery‚ ribbons‚ etc. The adornment is fashion driven and the “bling’ value increases or decreases with changing taste of people The Company Fashion
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