Anna Wintour is one the worlds most recognised creatives. Nowadays she is regarded as the most influential figure in the fashion industry and her creative directive has allowed her to become one of the most powerful people in fashion in the last twenty years. Anna Wintour has proven countless times how her creative vision and directive is not only extremely relevant, but is also revolutionary.
Time and time again Wintour’s ideas have not only shaped the course of Fashion, but have given us some of the world’s leading designers and artists – some that would not have been successful without the support of her.
Her creative beliefs have helped paved the way for ideas that would not have taken shape without her forward thinking. Wintour has inspired generations of people to have confidence in their choices and follow their own creative beliefs. Through her, a new era of creativity was born and she lead the way for a wide variety of sartorial ideas, that would not have even been considered if it were not for her, to be celebrated and represented in the media. Wintour’s creative choices have been detrimental to the forward movement of the fashion industry and she has moulded it to fit her creative beliefs.
Wintour has not only changed the way we look at media, but has changed the way the fashion industry looks at media. From her creative changes vis-à-vis cover models, to her incredible transformation of not only Vogue magazine, but numerous others, Wintour’s creative spark has been proven countless times. Her fresh ideas and confidence in her own decisions have allowed for her to help not only revamp numerous publications, but revive the fashion industry as a whole.
From an extremely young age Wintour showed creative spark, and in he...
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... a runway, it’s now a force for change in politics,” (The New York Times, 2012.) She built a gateway to prove that fashion could change politics in a creative and effective way.
Many psychological traits have been integral to Wintour’s success. Her physical energy and her ability to focus for long periods of time while exuding a sense of freshness and energy all the while are key to her success. Her ability to concentrate and put all her focus into the magazine, while still being able to bring a strong energy to the job has allowed her to power through barriers that she has faced.
Another psychological trait of a creative person is the ability to alternate between science and fantasy. The whole point of science and art is that we go beyond what we believe is real and create another reality, which is exactly what Wintour does. Each issue of Vogue is like being drawn
The article focuses on Individualization and uniqueness and how it has begun to find its way into current advertisements. By allowing a woman to express her individuality it shows boldness, fearlessness, and confidence and that is refreshing in today’s world of fashion.
Madonna Louise Veronica Ciccone (aka Madonna) is one of the most influential American Icons in the 21st century. She uses her sexuality and feminine characteristics to convey her beliefs to the public. She started a trend among youngster “wannabes” during the mid 80s (Cengage, 2003). These youngsters adopted Madonna’s messy hairdo and bold wardrobe such as lacy undergarments fully expresses the female sexuality and seductiveness. In this report, we will analyze Madonna’s career as an entertainer from the perspective of the Product life cycle and evaluate Madonna as a brand. A product life cycle describes how a product goes through the stages of introduction, growth, maturity, and decline.
Throughout time, bright designers, world-known magazines and famous models, where few are only African-Americans, had represented fashion. The fashion industry is one of the most demanding industries ever created. On one hand, designers have to be unique, professionals, consistent and most important, famous, to keep up with the industry. On the other hand, models have to be beautiful, with unique personalities, and most important, skinny. Before the Civil Right Movement, white Americans models and designers represented the fashion industry until famous models such as Naomi Campbell, and Iman Abdulmajid entered the industry. They were the most influential models in the 1980’s and 1990’s with their personal contribution on the industry. Beauty did not only brought goods and happiness; it also brought controversy and discrimination.
People always ask me who my favorite designer is. I always find it to be a pretty impossible question. How can you choose between someone like Alexander McQueen and Channel, or what about the clothes I wear every day? I do not even know who designs most of those. I feel like there are too many designers with vastly different ascetics, yet, they are still so breathtakingly impeccable. So now, I choose Diana Vreeland. Although she did not design clothing, nearly her whole life was spent creating beauty and interest with a taste level that hit the sky. She also launched careers of countless people many still follow today and she created trend after trend with her worldly eccentric eye and not to mention an sensational appetite for originality and beauty.
...e meeting the world with new bold designs, and will live on as an icon for future designers to aspire to for years to come. (“Coco Chanel Photos Prove the Designer was her own Muse”)
The term “The Little Black Dress,” the fragrance “Chanel No. 5,” the Chanel suit with its soft, cardigan-like jacket and skirt, have become part of the timeless fashion vocabulary familiar to us all. From our perspective, these aspects of modern fashion hardly seem revolutionary, but Coco Chanel was a businesswoman who became successful by adopting fashion to the evolving role of women in a rapidly changing wartime society; her vision that left a legacy which endures to this day.
Louis Vuitton, a French designer and entrepreneur quickly made a name for himself in the fashion industry by becoming Napoleon’s wife “personal box-maker and packer.” At the age of sixteen, Vuitton and his family started the legendary workshop by creating travel trunks and the famous unpickable locks in 1859 (Louis Vuitton, 2015). As the legendary brand continues to remarkably exceed both sales and expectations, Louis Vuitton as a brand strives for pure distinction and exclusivity.
Mademoiselle Reisz states to Edna that in order to be considered an artist, "one must possess many gifts-absolute gifts-which have not been acquired by one’s own effort. And, moreover, to succeed, the artist must possess the courageous soul." (63) Although Edna and Mademoiselle share many characteristics that may possibly contribute to their future paths, they have one stifling difference; Mademoiselle Reisz possesses the wisdom to live the way that she does, Edna Pontellier does not.
The future of women’s fashion is uncertain—in that shock value is harder to come by with each passing year. There is a concept in fashion that nothing is new, everything has been done before. This theory is coming closer to obvious reality, as fashion shows of recent years have visual throwbacks as late as the Victorian era. Although the direction is not yet decided, it is almost definite that women will use fashion as an important tool for expression and freedom in the future.
... ideas can be seen on the runway today over a century after his designs radically entered the fashion scene. Poiret experimented with new elements of style and design by using vibrant colors, draping fabrics, loose designs, and the use oriental-inspired designs. I believe that his designs were important because of his motivation to experiment with out of the ordinary radical design motives. His designs were illustrate many characteristics of the early art deco movement through the use of rich colors, lavish ornamentation, and emerging cultural changes. Though he left the prominence scene of fashion after WW1 I believe that most designers that came after his played off and were inspired by his creative and imaginative approach to design. Poiret paved the way towards modern fashion and gave woman the possibility to comfortably embrace a self-confident way of thinking.
A quote by American poet, Allen Ginsberg says, “You can’t escape the past in Paris, and yet what’s so wonderful about it is that the past and present intermingle so intangibly that it doesn’t seem to burden.” In order to truly understand the large role that fashion plays in a culture where the past is such a large part of the present, one must learn about its deep history and evolution.
Fashion plays an important role in the lives of billions all over the world; people, as part of a status craving society, turn to “fashion capitals” of the world for ways in which to dress and carry themselves. New York, Milan, and Paris are leaders among this fierce industry that the world lusts after. Fashion can speak volumes about ones personality, or also about the condition the world is in at the time. In France, fashion changed rapidly and feverously as the times changed.
Fashion has been around ever since ancient times, since the time of the Romans, it survived the world wars and is yet today a business with rapid changes. Fashion started off as an art form, a way for the rich to show their social status with unique and innovative designs that only they could afford. It was a way to separate the social classes of the society. In this paper I will include the creators of haute couture, and how the following designers developed couture, as well as leading names in today’s ready-to-wear industry. The list is long, but I chose to focus on the three most important designers in the modern fashion industry.
...r became more creative person in the fashion shoot, after the designer. The overall photograph would sell your garment to the best ability that the photographer could achieve. It was not just about being a beautiful model in the photograph, there had to be other ways of making the photograph appealing than the simple lacklustre way of being beautiful. Although, every woman wants to be beautiful, the photographer wanted to challenge the appearance of beauty. And also challenge the way we looked at people that were not beautiful, but had a unique quality to them. The fashion photographer had a lot of power in Fashion; they could make a normal street person become the key icon for desire and envy. The photograph had the power to sell the clothes using anyone the photographer pleased, and the designer didn’t mind as long as their clothes were being recognized, and sold.
Fashion takes on many different facets and concerns many subsets— a model sashaying down the runway in a gown encrusted in real gems, Lady Gaga’s infamous dress made of cuts of raw beef, a teenage girl obsessing over the season’s latest styles— it is all an expression of our minds and who we are or want to be, made tangible. It is a medium just like any other, for while artists wield brushes and paints, designers use thread and cloth to illustrate their vision. The artistry is none more so apparent than in the exclusive world of haute couture, a world of extravagance that caters to aesthetics, producing one-of-a-kind wearable masterpieces that are made to be admired rather than worn. It is without doubt, high fashion and its design is an art.