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Well fashion does not coordinate only towards clothing. We also have hair styles, make up, music and now a days even underwear. Each of these depends on the type of clothing chosen. Nevertheless in each category art is present and this criterion has been a debate argued for decades. Let me first make clear that the fashion to which I am referring is high fashion. It isn't the sort of fashion meant for high street consumption, made by machines and propelled by mass production. The fashion I refer to is made through a creative process involving inspiration, vision, presentation, and a need by the designer to express a message through his or her chosen art form. I don't believe a t-shirt is made in this manner. Secondly, what is art? Well this is probably the oldest question in cultural life. I've always been interested in the process of making a work of art - the act of creating and how the artist feels the need to communicate through art. So early on I defined art as any act of creation intended to convey a message through a process and/or a finished work. But how does fashion fit into this definition I hear you ask? Fashion is a creative process that results in a finished garment. Fashion has always borrowed from other art forms whether they are textile patterns of ancient cultures or sport. Taking these insights, designers recreate a new language of art in the form of an item of clothing. They are artists working within the medium of cloth.
History of Fashion:
From the start of the 20th century, fashion magazines were able to use photographs thus they became even more influential than ever before. These magazines became very sought after, and had a major effect on public taste. The magazines saw talented illustrators drawing fashion plates for the publications, which covered all the recent and up to date developments in the area of fashion trends. A famous magazine was La Gazette du Bon Ton founded in 1912, it regularly published until 1925. Vogue was founded in 1902. It the longest-lasting and one of the most successful of fashion trends magazines. With the emergence of cheap color printing in the 1960s Vogue had a major boost in sales. Vogue saw coverage of fashion trends in women's magazines, and then by the 1990s saw coverage of men's fashion trends. Fashion journalism is now an extremely important part of modern fashion. Such editorial critique and commentary can be found in all types of media from; newspapers, magazines, and television to the more modern; fashion websites, social networks and also fashion blogs.
Change in fashion:
Fashions in all things are constantly changing. Certain games and amusements, styles of furniture, rules of etiquette, foods and drinks, come into fashion and go out of fashion. What was fashionable in the days of our fathers is no longer fashionable to-day. This is especially true of fashions of dress which always means the latest fashion. One year ladies' dresses will be short and their hats small; the next they may be long and the hats large. Now the prevailing color will be blue; in a few months, it may be pink; and sometime after, everyone will be wearing black. A fashionable lady will call a beautiful and costly dress she has worn only once, "that old thing", and give it away to her maid, because it has gone out of fashion. As it is impossible for any but wealthy people to bear the expense of discarding perfectly good clothes, and of buying new and up-to-date dresses, only well-to-do people can always be in the fashion. How can we account for these constant and rapid changes in fashion? They are due, partly to love of novelty, and partly to what is called the "herd instinct". Animals that live in herds or flocks (such as cattle, sheep and deer) are in the habit of moving together, and all doing the same thing at the same time. Now men are animals that live in "herds" or societies; and, as a rule, a man or woman feels uncomfortable, if he or she is not doing or wearing just what their equals in society are wearing or doing.
reflects our cultural provenience, mentality, character, and even our feelings. Additionally, fashion has the great quality of mixing utility with aesthetics, and may be understood as a practical kind of art. Being influenced by many various cultural and social factors and permanently evolving to the wants and needs of a steadily developing society, fashion has suffered a large amount of radical changes over the passage of time. If youre a lesbian, youll have a simpler time hunt people look at each other differently just by the clothing they were. As a society we expect people to give into who ever is higher up in the social ladder. Though's higher class people may dress nicer, but that doesnt make them better than the middle class to low class people. And that is BIG problem in society today. But many of you are probably asking, "How does this relate to fashion trends?" The answer is simple. The drives behind what is considered fashionable at any point in history are controlled by the same concepts of admiration or envy and disdain. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, society was divided sharply between the elite - those persons with wealth or noble birth - and those who were considered common - the serfs and servants, laborers and trades-people. One fashion of the period dictated that a person's skin should be pale and clear, unmarred by sun, wind or worry. This was primarily because only the commoner would need to expose him-or-herself to the elements while toiling away in the fields. A lady of the upper class particularly would spend her day mostly indoors doing needlework, or practicing artistic pursuits, and if she did venture outside it was only under the cover of a parasol, or strolling a shaded garden path. To have sun-kissed or tanned skin made you look like a laborer or common farmer, and not like a lady or gentleman of worth. Being able to understand how trends develop may help you avoid following the ones that are ill-suited to you. There is a lot to be said for independence of thought in a society driven by trends, and who knows, maybe you can set a trend of your own.