“In psychology time is a main term and it is defined as a happening of “then”, “now” and “later” (Bruzelius & Skärvad, 1992).” In the fashion industry, time is a crucial term and companies acting in this industry are constantly trying to get the fashion into the store and available to the customer in shortest possible time “(Barnes & Lea-Greenwood, 2010).
Haute Couture
The word couture is French and translates to sewing or stitching in English, Haute in French translates to high or elegant. Haute Couture is the highest art of fashion design. To be officially known as a haute couture fashion house, the business must belong to the “Synidal chamber for Haute Couture in Paris, which is regulated by the French Department of Industry.”(David Johnson, What is Haute Couture? Uncovering the business of high fashion
http://www.infoplease.com/spot/fashionside1.html,) the very least amount of people a couture house can employ is fifteen. The houses must present their collections twice a year. The collections must involve thirty-five outfits for both day and eveningwear. Haute couture houses include Chanel, Pierre Cardin and Christian Dior. The employees in these houses specialize in one area only, shoes, buttons, zips, pressing, feathers or other embellishment. Each garment is completely made from scratch and there are usually three fittings per garment. One haute couture dress alone can take up to 100 – 400 hours! These garments aren’t cheap, they can range anywhere from $26,000 to a staggering $100,000! The haute couture market is quite a small one, the group itself is very secretive. “Despite the small market, designers maintain haute couture operations partly because the prestige helps sell other products, such as perfume, cosmet...
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Other than through paintings and architecture, he decided how the French society should behave through the use of dance, thus creating one of the most challenging yet beautiful types of dance today: ballet. He was also an inspiration when it came to how the French nobility should dress. Louis XIV’s legacy and contribution when it comes to French fashion is still very prominent today. Using the most intricate styles like embroidery from King Louis’s XIV rule, traditionally hand sewn clothing that are made up to 100 or more hours, with the most expensive fabrics like velvet, silk, fur, and lace is still done today, and it is featured six times a year by the biggest and most popular couturiers and designers during fashion week for women and men’s, and couture week, which is only held in the 4 biggest cities that celebrate fashion, also known as the Big 4: New York, London, Milan, and Paris. All of this is possible now because of Louis XIV’s idea to use the arts to represent his rule as an absolute monarch.
Since its establishment in the mid nineteenth century, haute couture has not only served as a symbol of status and convention for the imperial court and “high society”, but the underlaying foundation of the burgeoning production, consumption and dissemination of fashion. In 1858, the creation of the House of Worth, along with the faithful support of Princess Pauline von Metternich and Empress Eugénie, positioned Paris as the leading capital of fashion. The initial production of copies of the Empress’ couture dresses flourished as the Parisienne style circulated around Europe, followed by America, which prompted the development of ready to wear fashions. Although the popularity of haute couture was not sustained until the modern day, the works produced from labour intensive and time consuming tasks have continuously influenced the fashion of nowadays. Particular traditions of haute couture, such as the concept of showing garments on live models has developed into a norm, and have majorly impacted upon the consumption, production methods and circulation of fashion.
Museums around the world are taking fashion from the catwalks into galleries. Although fashion cannot be displayed in a frame it can tell a story behind a certain period of time just like art does. Nowadays fashion is considered wearable art and a way of expression for many people around the world. Emphasis, embellishments and shape are key elements that every fashion designer takes into account when producing a new piece of art work. Haute Couture is constructed by hand, made from high-quality, expensive, often unusual fabrics and sewn with attention to detail and finished by experienced and capable sewers, often using time-consuming, hand-executed
Available online at: http://www.somersethouse.org.uk/visual-arts/valentino. [Accessed 20 March 2014]. Valentino - Spring/Summer 2008 Couture - Paris (Vogue.com UK). 2014. The 'Standard' of the 'Standard'.
The Fashion Industry can be described as a glamorous world with cameras flashing, beautiful models strutting down the runway, in stunning and grand designs. What really goes on behind fashion’s dolled up doors is only an illusion compared to what reality is. Beautiful people, stylish clothing and timeless sophistication all make up the illusion of the glitz and glam of the fashion industry, but behind the curtains countless of models and designers constantly fall victim to this industry’s ever changing wrath. Fashion can be defined as a popular trend especially in styles of dress, ornaments or behavior. A model is a person who poses or displays for art purposes, fashion or other products and advertising. Fashion models are used mainly to promote products focusing mostly on clothing and accessory. The two main type of modeling in the fashion industry is commercial modeling and high fashion modeling. High Fashion models usually work for campaigns, designer’s collections and magazine editorials for high fashion designers. Runway modeling also known as “catwalk modeling” is displaying fashions and is generally performed by high fashion models. In my research paper, my main focus will be the multiple effects on high fashion models based upon the industry’s unregulated standards.
As Miuccia Prada said: "What you wear is how you present yourself to the world, especially today when human contacts are so quick. Fashion is instant language "(Lindig, 2014). People can be judged based on the clothes they wear. Clothes reveal more about us than we think, all our fears that we kept as the secret, our wishes and spending habits. Clinical psychologist, Dr. Jennifer Baumgartner claims that choosing clothes and behavior come from internal motivations such as emotions, experience, and culture. Moreover, there are five different personality types based on people's choices of clothing (Forbes.com, 2016).
It is necessary to identify fashion and explain the systems apparel industry uses before I start explore the essentiality of fast fashion. According to Dictionary.com, fashion is defined as the prevailing style or custom that is in a current mode and used to express oneself. It can be clothing, accessories, hair, etc. Why certain people like to frequently shop in malls and keep updating apparels in their closets every season? Form psychological perspective, people usually consider clothing as a symbol to show their values, personality and lifestyles to others. Critically, a rapid imaginative change and symbolic expression supports a sense people have about fashion. People believe that an ideal self-identity can be communicated to others through clothing, so figuring out how people make decision when they perceive clothing among different brands and understanding their needs and desires can help apparel industries expending and maintaining market s...
In the early 1800s, France was the sole fashion capital of the world; everyone who was anyone looked towards Paris for inspiration (DeJean, 35). French fashion authority was not disputed until the late twentieth century when Italy emerged as a major fashion hub (DeJean, 80). During the nineteenth century, mass produced clothing was beginning to be marketed and the appearance of department stores was on the rise (Stearns, 211). High fashion looks were being adapted and sold into “midlevel stores” so that the greater public could have what was once only available to the social elite (DeJean, 38). People were obsessed with expensive fashions; wealthy parents were advised not the let their children run around in expensive clothing. People would wait for children dressed in expensive clothing to walk by and then they would kidnap them and steal their clothes to sell for money (DeJean, 39). Accessories were another obsession of France‘s fashion; they felt no outfit was complete without something like jewelry or a shrug to finish off the look and make it all around polished (DeJean, 61). As designers put lines together, marketing began to become important to fashion in the nineteenth century; fashion plates came into use as a way to show off fashion l...
Fashion is an outlet people use to express themselves. People anxiously wait to see what the next trends are as seasons pass by. We buy anything that doesn’t break a bank, people buy a $10 shirt just because it’s cheap and they might not even wear it, but it’s all right, since it wasn’t expensive. As harmless and normal as that scenario sounds, the fashion industry has created the harmful concept that is “fast fashion”, in which stores sell an abundance of extremely cheap trendy clothing and “where deliveries are small and often, with stock delivered twice a week, for instant-access fashion.” (Cochrane)
...the fashion industry for hundreds of years, as it is home to the world’s leading designers and has imbedded a natural sense of effortless style in its residents. Paris Fashion Week is the finale of the four fashion weeks and is still depended upon for dictating next season’s trends. The world’s most glamorous names in fashion like Yves Saint Laurent, Coco Chanel, Lanvin, Louis Vuitton, Hermes and many more are still based out of the city. Paris was home to the first fashion house and it was the city to coin the terms of haute couture and prêt-à-porter. To this day use they implement high standards and use unions to protect these sects of the industry. It is home to the Golden Triangle; shopping districts of Champs-Elysées, Avenue Montaigne and Avenue Marceau. For these, and plenty of other reasons, France can still rightly claim its title of world fashion capital.
Claudio, Luz. "Waste Couture: Environmental Impact of the Clothing Industry." Environmental Health Perspectives 115.9 (2007): A453-A454. Jstor. Web. 20 Nov. 2015.
Haute Couture Haute Couture is the French term for high fashion, and it relates to the dressmaking, sewing, or needlework of a garment. In 1886, Charles Frédéric Worth founded an association of couture houses dedicated to regulate and protect the work of Parisian couturiers, and it later evolved to La Chambre Syndicale de la Couture Parisienne. MacKenzie. The term Haute Couture is protected by law in which one must adhere to specific criteria’s stated by the Syndical Chamber for Haute Couture in order to be categorized under its name. The criteria to be categorized as Haute Couture is a minimum of fifteen people employed at the house, producing one-of-a-kind garments of the highest craftsmanship and quality, as well as it has to be presented to the press in Paris each season.
Introduction Historically, multiple styles of dressing have been created during the last several decades, which played an important role in modern fashion in the UK. Everyone has a different and unique dressing style in their everyday life. Some styles are influenced by vintage styles which are attributing to the deep effects of old vogue, and another group of dressing styles are inclined into the fresh element. Despite those different styles, some of them have even evolved into the milestones in fashion history. To start this essay, it will introduce the evaluation of the first significant revolution of dressing style in the 1960s.
The fashion industry is synonymous with rapid changes and for a company to have success in the fashion industry the organization needs to be fast and flexible. The nature of the industry is discussed in terms of its volatility, complexity and dynamism. Companies like Zara, the retailer H&M and GAP have to keep up with the every changing trends in the fashion industry. One day skinny jeans will be all the rage and the next day they will be out of style. The fashion industry changes with the popular styles of its day, and it changes day by day, month by month.
Fashion is a word that can mean many different things. To some it means what models wear on the runway. To others, fashion means the clothing styles that people wear on a daily basis. A good place to start this discussion would be to define what Fast Fashion is; it is the rapid conversion of design trends into multi-channel volume.