FASHION DESIGN

Historians have used Fashion Design as a way of helping to determine the social and cultural values of certain communities in history. Because Fashion Design has had a direct correlation with status, position and religion. Fashion Design is a part of all cultures. It should also not be confused with a "fad", which refers to a particular popular loot at a certain time. Fashion Design covers everything from Uniforms to casual wear to style. It may be said that Fashion Design dictates changes in clothing over time and history.

Areas of Fashion Design
Fashions are social psychology phenomena common to many fields of human activity and thinking.
The rises and falls of fashions have been especially documented and examined in the following fields:
Architecture, interior design, and landscape design
Arts and crafts
Body type, clothing or costume, cosmetics, grooming, and personal adornment
Dance and music
Forms of address, slang, and other forms of speech
Economics and spending choices, as studied in behavioral finance
Entertainment, games, hobbies, sports, and other pastimes
Etiquette
Management, management styles and ways of organizing
Politics and media, especially the topics of conversation encouraged by the media
Technology, such as the choice of programming techniques
Of these fields, costume especially has become so linked in the public eye with the term "fashion".



Fashion Design and the Process of Change
Fashion Design, by definition, changes constantly. The design changes may proceed more rapidly than in most other fields of human activity (language, thought, etc). For some, modern fast-paced changes in fashion embody many of the aspects of capitalism: it results in waste and encourages people to buy things unnecessarily. Other people, especially young people, enjoy the diversity that changing fashion can apparently provide, seeing the constant change as a way to satisfy their desire to experience "new" and "interesting" things. Note too that fashion can change to enforce uniformity. At the same time there remains an equal or larger range designated (at least currently) 'out of fashion'. (These or similar fashions may cyclically come back 'into fashion' in due course, and remain 'in fashion' again for a while.) Practically every aspect of appearance that can be changed has been changed at some time, for example skirt lengths ranging from ankle to mini to so short that it barely covers anything, etc. Fashion houses and their associated fashion designers, as well as high-status consumers (including celebrities), appear to have some role in determining the rates and directions of fashion design change.

Adeline Andre
Murray Arbeid
John Anthony
Amaya Arzuaga
Marc Audibet
Jacques Azagury
Badgley Mischka
Renato Balestra
Isabelle Ballu
Travis Banton
Antonio Berardi
Eric Bergere
Elio Berhanyer
Alistair Blair
Marc Bohan
Tom Brigance
Donald Brooks
Stephen Burrows
Cacharel
Roberta di Camerino
Ally Capellino
Carmen de Tommaso
Joe Caseley-Hayford
Bonnie Cashin
Oleg Cassini
Antonio Castillo
John Cavanagh
Hussein Chalayan
Lindka Cierach
Liz Claiborne
Jean Colonna
Sybil Connolly
Jasper Conran
Andre Courreges
Enrico Coveri
Wendy Dagworthy
Ann Demeulemeester
Jean Desses
Randolph Duke
Victor Edelstein
Alber Elbaz
Luis Estevez
Nicole Farhi
Jacques Fath
Louis Feraud
Gianfranco Ferre
Alberta Ferretti
Elio Fiorucci
Shelley Fox
Istvan Francer
James Galanos
John Galliano
Rudolph Gernreich
Bill Gibb
Elspeth Gibson
Romeo Gigli
Georgina Godley
Maria Grachvogel
Elizabeth Hawes
Anne Valerie Hash
Paula Hian
Margaret Howell
Barbara Hulanicki
Marc Jacobs
Dorothy Jeakins
Elisa Jimenez
Anand Jon
Wolfgang Joop
Herbert Kasper
Daryl Kerrigan
Emmanuelle Khanh
Muriel King
Sophia Kokosalaki
Derek Lam
Pino Lancetti
Helmut Lang
Desiree Mejer
Carlos Miele
Nicole Miller
Frederic Molenac
Mark Montano
Hamish Morrow
Erik Mortensen
Roland Mouret
Jean Muir
Lars Nilsson
Jessica Ogden
Justin Oh
Bruce Oldfield
John Orry-Kelly
Rifat Ozbek
Jenny Packham
Mollie Parnis
Guy Paulin
Phoebe Philo
Robert Piguet
Walter Plunkett
Clare Potter
Paco Rabanne
Zandra Rhodes
Patrick Robinson
John Rocha
Narciso Rodriguez
Edina Ronay
Gilles Rosier
Sonia Rykiel
Jil Sander
Fausto Sarli
Arnold Scaasi
Jean-Louis Scherrer
Mila Schon
Willi Smith
Stephen Sprouse
Tomasz Starzewski
Lawrence Steele
Cynthia Steffe
Victor Stiebel
Helen Storey
Angelo Tarlazzi
Gustave Tassell
Rebecca Taylor
William Travilla
Richard Tyler
Joan Vass
Philippe Venet
Ocimar Versolato
Adrienne Vittadini
Catherine Walker

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