The Development and Changers of Fashion

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Fashion is usually put into the same category as clothes and/or accessories. But it really is more than that. It is all about how it was made and the actual work that goes into it. Sometimes, the type of clothes you wear can help you express your inner beauty and personality.
A long time ago, when people wore nothing at all, the idea that you should put something on your body to cover it up was crazy. So basically, fashion was invented much as everything else. There is no easy way to determine when clothing was first esablished. One theory is that modern humans are only survivors of several species of primates who may have worn clothes and that clothing may have been used as long as 650 thousand years ago. Other theories proposed by different people put the introduction of clothing at around 42,000-72,000B.C. Over all this time, the clothes we wear and display on our bodies have changed so much.
There is a very diverse range of styles in fashion, varying by geography, culture, and exposure to modern media, economic conditions, and ranging from expensive haute couture to traditional garb, to the thrift store grunge.
Clothes all come back to the work of the designers. All designers have a different style to their work. Some design clothes for men, some for women and some even design clothes for both men and women. There have been many fashion designers over the years, but I am only going to write about two particularly influential and interesting ones: Coco Chanel and Christian Dior.
Christian Dior was born on January 21, 1905, in Granville, France. He was the second of five children born to Alexandre Louis Maurice Dior, who was the owner of a highly successful fertilizer manufacturer, and his wife, who was ...

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...I, Chanel was a nurse, although her after the war popularity was greatly reduced by her affair with a Nazi officer during the conflict and she moved to Switzerland to escape the arguing. However, she ended this self-imposed exile in 1954, returning to Paris when she took on Christian Dior's openly feminine New Look. She expanded the signature style with the introduction of pea jackets and bell-bottoms for women. Her new collection, criticized by the press in Europe, was a hit in the United States. During her life, Coco Chanel also designed costumes for the stage, including Cocteau's 'Antigone' (1923) and 'Oedipus Rex' (1937) and movie-based works such as 'La Regle de Jeu'. Coco Chanel worked until her death in 1971 at the age of 88, spending her last instant in the style she had become comfortable with at her beautiful and rich-looking private apartment in The Ritz.

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