Distribution and Consumer Research Vol. 20‚ No. 1‚ February 2010‚ 165–173 Fast fashion: response to changes in the fashion industry Vertica Bhardwaj* and Ann Fairhurst Retail and Consumer Sciences‚ The University of Tennessee‚ Knoxville‚ USA (Received June 2009; final version received October 2009) The fashion apparel industry has significantly evolved‚ particularly over the last 20 years. The changing dynamics of the fashion industry have forced retailers to desire low cost and flexibility in design
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Appropriateness in Today’s Fashion Magazines On the cover of mostly all fashion magazines that are seen today‚ there is either a beautifully dressed woman with a slim figure and perfect hair and makeup or there is a (sometimes) shirtless man with chiseled abs and a stern look. Now there is not a rule book for how women and men are to be depicted in magazine photos but because of our expectancy that men and women are going to be depicted in what is known as their normal role‚ we accept the photos that
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Jennie Yabroff disassembles the fashion world and what it is reforming itself as it expands. Yabroff explains the reasoning behind the fashion world and its drastic change is because the faces of the people wearing the clothing are changing. Stereotypical models that we used to seeing in magazines‚ commercials‚ and ads are beginning to look more like normal people. Why the faces of the fashion industry changing? Many aren’t sure‚ but Yabroff believes that fashion gurus are noticing that sales are
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Pitoy Moreno - Jose "Pitoy" Moreno is the best-known Filipino fashion designer. Moreno is internationally recognized as the "Fashion Czar of Asia".[citation needed] A former student at the University of the Philippines‚ where he joined the Upsilon Sigma Phi fraternity‚ Moreno is one of the earliest advocates of the Maria Clara gown. Moreno was the president of the Philippine Couture Association‚ the very first association of fashion designers in Manila‚ Philippines. Moreno was the costume designer
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Fashion Fashion plays an important role in the modern society. But people have different attitudes to fashion. Some are indifferent; they do not care what they wear. Others‚ especially women are very choosy and particular about what to wear and like to spend a lot of money on clothes. The styles of clothing have been influenced by different factors‚ such as geography‚ religion‚ climate‚ poverty or wealth. The way we dress also depends on our taste‚ on the season and the proper occasion. We
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professionally competent environment that encourages innovation and uses my skills and knowledge in fashion designing to make a mark in the fashion world is my career objective. I have always loved fashion and I have always been interested in business. Thus‚ working on the business side of fashion seems like the perfect marriage for me. I want to work for a fashion or retail company‚ working my way up the ladder on either the buying or the sales side. One day I
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I have always been interested in fashion and the fashion industry. For my Graduation Project I decided that I should do something that falls into that category. In my project I will research how fashion impacts teenagers. I have noticed that many teen fashion magazines have a huge impact on teens‚ because many teens look up to the girls inside and on the cover of the magazines. I feel as though it relates to me because I am a teenager and I feel as though fashion does have a big effect on us.
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What is Fashion All About? What is it with fashion? It’s something that we all deal with everyday. From birth to old age‚ the way we dress says something about each and every one of us. Even those people who say that fashion doesn’t matter to them‚ still have to choose what they wear every day. Fashion says a lot about who we are and how we are feeling. One thing that is guaranteed is that fashion is always changing. We are always being subjected to new trends everywhere we look! Magazines
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Fashion: What you wear defines who you are. Fashion is an enormous icon in our society. It is practically the thing we can never go without. We make our very first impression by what we wear not by our personalities. They say you are what you eat but truly you are what you wear and fashion has provided us with a little something to define everyone. There are so many styles of fashion: Goth‚ Chic‚ Prep‚ Hippies etc. every style has its own description so why would we not be classified into that
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is because fashion builds the person´s identity. That’s why we should understand that clothing and fashion is important today as it was yesterday and will be in the future. For hundreds of years people have put some message in the type of clothing they wear. Long ago people started wanting to stand out from the “crowd” and be different changing their clothing. Some examples of these “standing out” became very popular and were followed by more people. This was the moment when fashion appeared. Nowadays
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