The fashion industry creates all the clothes that one is wearing at any moment of the day, from hats and hair accessories to undergarments to buttons to shoes. One could pursue either a creative or business career in the fashion industry. The fashion industry affects society both positively and negatively, especially negatively, in ways like eating disorders, providing sizes for plus-size consumers, and representation of plus-size models and ethnically diverse models. There are also problems within the fashion world, like counterfeiting of luxury brands, fast fashion, and working conditions in factories. Regulation within the fashion industry includes copyright protection of fashion designers, and whether extremely thin models are allowed to model in fashion shows or not. Though, the fashion industry is nothing new and will be around as long as people wear clothing, there are certain trends that are either losing or gaining attention. The fashion industry provides both creative and business-oriented positions, making the fashion world interesting. Fashion moves in cycles, and many, especially those who work within the industry, describe fashion as very fickle. When it comes to people one might work within the industry, fashion attracts eccentric, creative people who are often very difficult to work for and with, and those within the fashion world can be very brutal and backstabbing. Starting salaries can be very low, workspaces can be crowded and noisy, and schedules can be unpredictable and hours are often long and labor-intensive. Though, there is potential for large salaries, travel, and fun, there is can also be quiet, solitude, and security, largely depending on where one works in the field. If one works in the fashion ind... ... middle of paper ... ... Anderson, Mae. "The size of it: The number of plus-size women outweighs the number of fashion choices for them." The Canadian Press [Toronto] 21 Oct. 2013. Espejo, Roman, ed. The Fashion Industry: Opposing Viewpoints. Detroit: Greenhaven P, 2010. "Fashion Designers." U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 8 Jan. 2014. U.S. Department of Labor. 19 Mar. 2014 . Ferguson Publishing. Careers in Focus: Fashion. Chicago: Ferguson, 2003. Giacobello, John. Careers in the Fashion Industry. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 1999. Givhan, Robin. "Fashion's Full-Figured Failure." Newsweek [New York] 22 Oct. 2012: 7. Smith, Patricia. "The High Price of Cheap Fashion." New York Times Upfront 146 (2013): 12-15. Wolverson, Roya. "High and Low. Online flash sales go beyond fashion to survive." Time 180 (2012): 9-12.
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With African Americans being apart of the fashion industry, they faced many hardships. However, they created a distinctive voice in the history of fashion. Throughout the early twentieth century, Blacks designers influenced the fashion industry in America, having, “a system and structure for maintaining their particular type of fashion.” African American fashion was very popular and caught the attention from the media. Department stores held successful fashion shows, screened fashion movies, and staged fashion pageants. Fortunately, African Americans were allowed to attend these events, yet they were not welcomed. Fast-forward to today, the fashion industry has opened up several doors for African American designers, stylist, and models. However,
Though some would judge a book filled with high fashion faux paus and captivating drama, as unworthy to be noted as a book of historical importance, The House of Gucci is an accounting of one of the greatest fashion houses of the 20th century. Sara Gay Forden, the author of The House of Gucci, places you on a roller coaster of highs and lows, births and deaths, divorces and marriages, and bankruptcy and capital power. She manages to integrate a respectful look at how fashion affects us in both apparent and subtle ways. This novel reveals simply that fashion is not all about logos and Dockers, but about the ugly truth behind one of fashion’s most infamous family.
In the article, “Designers Refuse to Make Clothes to Fit American Woman. It’s a Disgrace”, Gunn states plus-size women don’t get acknowledged as often by designers, due to their figure. Gunn states that popular designers ignore “plus-sized” women in the clothing industry. The average American woman wears between sizes 16 and 18. Gunn says the industry turned its back on plus-sized women because they would not fit the image they are trying to perceive, they would not take a risk of making plus-sized clothes in fear the line won’t sell like prior clothing lines, and that changing the issue in the industry would be hard to change because society as well as the clothing industry consider thinness to be what women today should look like.
Feldman, Jamie. “Finally, A Realistic Look At The Plus-Size.” The Huffington Post, TheHuffingtonPost.com, 30 June 2015, www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/30/plus-size- model-documentary_n_7696740.html.
The next one to enter the American fashion industry was Calvin Klein. Entrepreneur’s article “Calvin Klein a Stylish Obsession” states in 1968 he started his coat company Calvin Klein Ltd. In truth his company flourished by accident, a man came to buy a coat from another company but had the wrong floor. He was astonished by the work of Calvin Klein he made a $50,000 order from him, and then Calvin Klein started to flourish.
Baker, Patricia, and Robert Price. Fashions of a Decade. New York: Facts on File, 1991. Print.
Did you know that many penurious children and families suffer from many things that America takes for granted? “The Real Cost of Cheap Fashion,” by Laura Anastasia and “The Real Cost of Your Phone,” by Rebecca Zissou show many readers how terribly many people are affected by this, and what a hinderance it is on their lives, but also what can be done to fix it.
15 Giacobello, John. Careers in the Fashion Industry. New York: Rosen Pub. Group, 1999. Print.
Thesis: With the unregulated practices that goes on in the Fashion Industry, change is one notion that this abusive yet glamorous business have yet to see.
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.
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Fashion in the 21st century is a big business, as its production employs millions of people and generates billions of dollars in revenue. Fashion has for the past century been, and is still today, used as an indicator of social change and progress, as it changes with the social norms of the society and the political changes of the world (Finkelstein 3). Works Cited Finkelstein, Joanne. A.S.A. & Co. Fashion: An Introduction to Fashion. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Talking about fashion design, some people would think about making clothes. This is definitely a essential skill we fashion designers should know. But it is not all. And the funny part is, we also call ourselves “tailors”, call the sewing studio “a sweatshop”. Simply because that some time we felt there were so much work load and we felt really tired in the sewing studio. Of course, this is a joke between our
The fashion industry is dependent on making trends that attract and hold the attention of public interested in fashion. The person who works in fashion public relations is responsible for promoting the trend fashions in a creative way and generating a buzz among influential media users (Mooney, n.d).