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Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging. As a multifaceted term, fashion describes an industry, designs, aesthetics, and trends.
The term fashion originates from the Latin word facere, which means "to make", and describes the manufacturing, mixing, and wearing of outfits adorned with specific cultural aesthetics, patterns, motifs, shapes, and cuts, allowing people to showcase their group belongings, values, meanings, beliefs, and ways of life. Given the rise in mass production of commodities and clothing at lower prices and global reach, reducing fashion's environmental impact and improving sustainability has become an urgent issue among politicians, brands, and consumers.
The world's three top fashion capitals currently are acknowledged to be New York City (Manhattan), Paris, and Milan, which are all headquarters to the most significant fashion companies and are renowned for their major influence on global fashion. The annual Met Gala held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan is widely considered to be the world's apex display of fashion's power, wealth, and influence. In some fashion circles, Tokyo, London, and Los Angeles are additionally considered as second-tier fashion centers. Fashion weeks are held in these cities, where designers exhibit their new clothing collections to audiences. A study demonstrated that general proximity to Manhattan's Garment District was important to participate in the American fashion ecosystem. However, fashion has also migrated online to a significant extent, such that the geographical iconization of cities as fashion capitals, while still centrally important, has become less so with the advent of artificial intelligence. Haute couture has now largely been spread alongside the sale of ready-to-wear collections and perfume using the same branding. (Full article...)
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Hugo Boss AG (stylized in all caps) is a German designer fashion company headquartered in Metzingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. The company sells clothing, accessories, footwear, and leather goods. Hugo Boss is one of the largest German clothing brands, with global sales of about €4.3 billion in 2024. Its stock is a component of the MDAX. The company's fashion brands are Boss and Hugo. Hugo Boss also sells licensed brand products for children's fashion, eyewear, watches, home textiles, riding apparel, writing utensils and fragrances.
The company was founded in 1924 in Germany by Hugo Boss and originally produced general-purpose clothing. In the early 1930s, Hugo Boss began to produce and supply military uniforms for the government of Nazi Germany, resulting in a large boost in sales. After World War II and the founder's death in 1948, Hugo Boss started to turn its focus to men's suits. The company went public in 1988 and introduced a fragrance line that same year, adding men's and women's wear diffusion lines in 1997, a full women's collection in 2000, and children's clothing in 2006–2007. The company has since evolved into a major global fashion house. As of December 2024, it operated 1,532 own retail points of sale worldwide. (Full article...)
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Clothing serves many purposes: it can protect against the elements, rough surfaces, sharp stones, rash-causing plants, and insect bites by providing a barrier between the skin and the environment. Clothing can insulate against cold or heat and provide a hygienic barrier, keeping infectious and toxic materials away from the body. It can protect feet from injury and discomfort or facilitate navigation in varied environments. Clothing also protects from ultraviolet radiation. Wearers may use it to reduce glare or improve visual acuity in harsh environments, such as when wearing brimmed hats. Wearers may also use clothing for protection against injury in specific tasks and occupations, sports, and warfare. Fashioned with pockets, belts, or loops, clothing may provide a means to carry things while freeing the hands. (Full article...)
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An advertisement exhorting readers to "GET FAT", in which the woman depicted makes a conspiratorial wink as she shares the secret to her beauty.
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- ...that apparel incorporating homemade granny squares (pictured) was a 1970s fashion fad?
- ... that fashion illustrator Antonio Lopez discovered Jessica Lange, Grace Jones, and Jerry Hall?
- ... that the Ralph Lauren dress which Gwyneth Paltrow wore to the 71st Academy Awards in 1999 has been cited as bringing pink back into fashion?
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Chloë Stevens Sevigny (/ˈsɛvəni/ SEV-ən-ee; born November 18, 1974) is an American actress and director. Known for her work in independent films with controversial or experimental themes, her accolades include a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award and a Primetime Emmy Award.
After graduating from high school, Sevigny found work as a model, and appeared in music videos for Sonic Youth and The Lemonheads, which helped acquire her "it girl" status. In 1995, she made her film debut in Kids, and became a prominent performer in the independent film scene throughout the late 1990s, with roles in such films as 1996's Trees Lounge. Sevigny rose to prominence with her portrayal of Lana Tisdel in the drama film Boys Don't Cry (1999), for which she received a nomination for the Academy Award For Best Supporting Actress. (Full article...)
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Clothing factory in Buryatia, Russia (from Clothing industry)
Dress attributed to Charles Frederick Worth for Elisabeth of Austria painted by Franz Xaver Winterhalter (from History of fashion design)
Fashionable Hollywood actress Louise Brooks (from History of fashion design)
Models on the runway at São Paulo Fashion Week, 2017 (from Fashion show)
Finnish actress Elina Salo presenting clothes designed by Vuokko Nurmesniemi at a fashion show in the Helsinki Botanical Garden in 1958 (from Fashion show)
Paris fashion and runway at the turn of the century (from Fashion show)
Moslema in style fashion show at PWTC. (from Islamic fashion)
Garment factory workers in Bangladesh, in 2013. (from Clothing industry)
Liu Wen, a supermodel, walking the catwalk as she models fashions by designer Diane von Fürstenberg at New York Fashion Week in 2013 (from Fashion show)
Haute couture fashion models walking the catwalk at the Carolina Herrera show during New York Fashion Week in 2014 (from Fashion show)
Fashionable lady of the era: portrait by Giovanni Boldini (1845–1931) showing Elizabeth Wharton Drexel in 1905. (from History of fashion design)
Example image of a poodle skirt. (from History of fashion design)
Fashion sketching before live runway presentation (from Fashion show)
Moslema in style fashion show in Kuala Lumpur (from Islamic fashion)
Example of an elaborate stage set used for the Chanel Haute Couture Fall-Winter 2011 show (from Fashion show)
Young generation - main target of Islamic Fashion market. (from Islamic fashion)
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More Did you know (auto generated)
- ... that Lady Gaga referenced Alexander McQueen's game of fashion chess for The Mayhem Ball?
- ... that estimates of the boost to the British fashion industry by Catherine, Princess of Wales, range from £152 million to £1 billion per year?
- ... that Alexander McQueen pioneered the use of digitally engineered prints in fashion with Natural Dis-tinction Un-natural Selection (examples pictured)?
- ... that for her work in Poor Things, the costume designer Holly Waddington was influenced by the Victorian era, early 20th-century German Expressionism, and 1960s fashion?
- ... that Shushu/Tong is a brand that creates fashion collections inspired by magical girl anime such as Puella Magi Madoka Magica?
- ... that The Horn of Plenty by Alexander McQueen satirized the fashion industry with clothing sewn from expensive fabric made to look like household trash?
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