What Is the Best Way to Begin Learning About Fashion, Trends, and Fashion Designers?
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★ What is the best way to begin learning about fashion, trends, and fashion designers? Edit I know a bit, but not much. What are some ways to educate myself when it comes to fashion? Edit Comment • Share (1) • Options Follow Question Promote Question Related Questions • Fashion and Style : Apart from attending formal classes, what are some of the ways for someone interested in fashion designing to learn it as ... (continue) • Fashion and Style : How did the fashion trend of wearing white shoes/sneakers begin? • What's the best way of learning about the business behind the fashion industry? • Fashion and Style : What are the best ways for a new fashion designer to attract customers? • What are good ways to learn more about the fashion industry? More Related Questions Share Question Twitter Facebook LinkedIn Question Stats • Latest activity 11 Mar • This question has 1 monitor with 351833 topic followers. 4627 people have viewed this question. • 39 people are following this question. • 11 Answers Ask to Answer Yolanda Paez Charneco Add Bio • Make Anonymous Add your answer, or answer later. Kathryn Finney, "Oprah of the Internet" . One of the ... (more) 4 votes by Francisco Ceruti, Marie Stein, Unsah Malik, and Natasha Kazachenko Actually celebrities are usually the sign that a trend is nearing it's end and by the time most trends hit magazine like Vogue, they're on the way out. The best way to discover and follow fashion trends is to do one of three things: 1. Order a Subscription to Women's Wear Daily. This is the industry trade paper and has a lot of details on what's happen in fashion from both a trend and business level. The website is quite good at distilling 2. Set up a feed reader (or get an app like Flipboard if you have an iphone/ipad) and add the following blogs to your reader: Cool Hunting (www.coolhunting.com), JC Report (www.jcreport.com), Vmag (www.vmag.com), thesartorialist.blogspot.com/, www.Streetpeeper, Budget Fashionista (www.thebudgetfashionista.com) and W Magazine. These are great places to start, but don't be afraid to explore. There's a ton of great street style blogs. 3. Read Trend reports from firms like The Doneger Group- www.doneger.com, which have free trend reports online and also Pantone, which releases the top colors for the up coming season several months ahead of time on their site. Suggestions Pending 1 Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 24 Jan, 2011 Meredith Powell, Fashion Pro / Biz Dev / Advisor www.wwd.com www.businessoffashion.com www.style.com www.weconnectfashion.com www.fashiontoast.com www.refinery29.com www.whowhatwear.com www.rachelzoe.com More generally (and likely you are already using these tools?), be sure to jump on LinkedIn, Twitter, Pinterest, Path, Instagram, FB etc to find & follow your faves. Also, my tip is to skip fashion school (unless you are an aspiring designer or want to pursue production). Fast-track your learning by heading down to your local garment disctrict and knocking on doors for an internship. On-job experience & networking is key. Happy browsing & best of luck! Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 1 Feb, 2012 Madeline Veenstra, Co-founder of Wikifashion ✁ Apart from getting a subscription to WWD, I'd recommend Style.com and joining thefashionspot.com forums. Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 15 Feb, 2011 Jessica Zhang, Student at Columbia University http://www.wwd.com/ http://www.style.com/ http://www.thefashionspot.com/ http://www.fashionista.com/ http://www.racked.com/ http://www.refinery29.com/ http://www.whowhatwear.com/ http://www.stylelist.com/ http://www.fabsugar.com/ http://www.fashionologie.com/ http://www.bloglovin.com/ Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 12 Feb, 2012 Anna Pinkman Read fashion magazines, websites and blogs. I like www.refinery29.com and Street Peeper Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 20 Feb Jenny Bowes, fashion designer for modern women Always look into the history of fashion, this is where you will learn the most. There are so many ways to access this information, internet, current and back dated magazines and books. Suggestions Pending Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 11 Apr, 2012 Priyaa Iyer, Code coolie 1 vote by Meera Mukundan Keep window shopping and trying on different kinds of clothes, also check out what women around you wear and how women in the movies are dressed up. Fashion is more about carrying off what suits you well, and dressing for the occasion. So the internet could help you out with that immensely,also can magazines like Vogue etc. Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 8 Mar Kendall Herbst, StyleUp Co-Founder 1 vote by Ryan Choi If you don't have time to scan through a zillion blogs on a daily basis or the money to subscribe to a bunch of magazines, I'd highly suggest joining The StyleUp for free. We'll keep you updated on current trends and affordable ways to shop the new styles. Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 11 Mar Bonnie Ghetler, in Montreal Canada Read Vogue and some of the other Fashion trade mags like Women's Wear Daily, There's also fashion television. Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 29 Nov, 2010 CamMi Pham, Fashion Blogger 1. Read fashion magazine like Vogue or website like style.com It is also a good idea to read some fashion blogs. There are amazing blogs out there :) 2. Pay attention to what celebrities wear, usually they start new trends 3. Be a member of fashion forums. You can learn a lot from other people. If you have any other questions, feel free to contact/ask me :) Hope it helps CamMi Suggestions Pending Comment • Share • Embed • Thank • 4 Jan, 2011 Linda Harkin, Product manager, fashion analyst and ... (more) Fashion newsletters :- They are very informative and give you updates about the current happenings of the fashion industry. Online fashion markets :- Visit some of the online fashion markets such as asos.com , polyvore.com, boutiques.com where you can see fashion products displayed by various brands and get an idea of current fashion. Designer websites:- Get the names of some fashion designers from magazines such as New York times and search for their website where you can get to see their designs and understand their style. Fashion blogs :- Read fashion blogs that cover the fashion industry, clothing, and personal style. Search for fashion blogs in Bloglovin.com, that covers a range of fashion industry happenings. Fashion forecast report :- Many minds work together at the forecasting fashion for the next season and release a report. Reading that report can certainly help you to be a part of the upcoming trend. Take a look at top trend report like Tobe’s report , Worth Global Style Network and Stylesight. ¿Eres consciente del potencial de tu imagen y estilo personal como herramienta de poder personal? A esta y otras preguntas responde este interesante seminario de estilo impartido por la Escuela de Periodismo y Comunicación de Unidad Editorial. Siempre nos lo han dicho. Una imagen vale más que mil palabras. Si, además, hablamos de la imagen personal, la importancia se multiplica. Por eso mismo, por la importancia de nuestra imagen, seguro que te encantará este seminario de estilo que te permitirá descubrir el potencial de tu estilo en el ámbito personal y profesional. El curso responde a preguntas cómo: ¿Eres consciente del potencial de tu imagen y estilo personal como herramienta de poder personal? o ¿Sabes cómo influye tu estilo en tu productividad y tu éxito profesional o empresarial? El seminario está impartido por Isabel Janer, estilista freelance, licenciada en Historia del Arte, y Rafael Martínez Alonso, director en el Área de Estrategia de Telefónica. Fashion From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search For other uses, see Fashion (disambiguation). "Menswear" redirects here. For the musical group, see Menswear (band). This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page. This article needs additional citations for verification. (September 2011) This article may contain wording that promotes the subject in a subjective manner without imparting real information. (September 2011) In Following the Fashion (1794), James Gillray caricatured a figure flattered by the short-bodiced gowns then in fashion, contrasting it with an imitator whose figure is not flattered. Fashion is a general term for a popular style or practice, especially in clothing, footwear, accessories, makeup, body piercing, or furniture. Fashion refers to a distinctive and often habitual trend in the style with which a person dresses, as well as to prevailing styles in behaviour. Fashion also refers to the newest creations of textile designers.[1] The more technical term, costume, has become so linked to the term "fashion" that the use of the former has been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while "fashion" means clothing more generally and the study of it. Although aspects of fashion can be feminine or masculine, some trends are androgynous.[2][3] Contents • 1 Clothing fashions • 2 Fashion industry • 3 Media • 4 Anthropological perspective • 5 Intellectual property • 6 Fashion for a cause • 7 See also • 8 References • 9 Bibliography • 10 Further reading • 11 External links Clothing fashions 2008 Ed Hardy runway show Main article: History of Western fashion Early Western travelers, whether to Persia, Turkey, India, or China frequently remark on the absence of changes in fashion there, and observers from these other cultures comment on the unseemly pace of Western fashion, which many felt suggested an instability and lack of order in Western culture. The Japanese Shogun's secretary boasted (not completely accurately) to a Spanish visitor in 1609 that Japanese clothing had not changed in over a thousand years.[4] However in Ming China, for example, there is considerable evidence for rapidly changing fashions in Chinese clothing.[5] Changes in costume often took place at times of economic or social change (such as in ancient Rome and the medieval Caliphate), but then a long period without major changes followed.