Read scripts and consult directors and other production staff to develop design concepts and plan productions. Develop a group of products or accessories, and market them through venues such as boutiques or mail-order catalogs. Purchase new or used clothing and accessory items as needed to complete designs. Confer with sales and management executives or with clients to discuss design ideas. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word ‘fashion.’ Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors.
Previously, Carry set up her multi-award winning fashion brand Pachacuti in 1992 after a Masters in Native American Studies, supporting sustainable, rural livelihoods for women in the Andean region. Pachacuti pioneered radical supply chain transparency and was the world’s first Fair Trade Certified company. Her collections were shown at London, Paris and Milan Fashion Week and sold in the world’s foremost luxury stores.
As a PR and communication manager she is now counselling and campaigning start-ups and young labels in textile industry, circular economy and sharing-economies. Clara is a final year student in Natural Sciences at UCL and has been an activist for a fair, transparent and circular fashion industry for many years. Alongside her studies, she has been an active member of the Fashion and Climate Action Societies at UCL, organising 2 fashion shows, campaigns and clothes swaps to make sustainability centre stage in the discourse held around fashion on campus.
Political figures have played a central role in the development of fashion, at least since the time of French king Louis XIV. For example, First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy was a fashion icon of the early 1960s. Wearing Chanel suits, structural Givenchy shift dresses, and soft color Cassini coats with large buttons, she inspired trends of both elegant formal dressing and classic feminine style. Some influencers are paid huge amounts of money to promote a product or clothing item, where the business hopes many viewers will buy the product off the back of the advertisement. Instagram is the most popular platform for advertising, but Facebook, snapchat, Twitter and other platforms are also used. While some exclusive brands may claim the label haute couture, the term is technically limited to members of the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris. Haute couture is more aspirational; inspired by art and culture, and in most cases, reserved for the economic elite.
Sustainable design principlesare part of a core curriculum that focuses on designing for tomorrow. Offering core coursework that explores eco-friendly, smart design, fashion students also have the option to minor in Sustainability. Students in our program become educated and practiced in all aspects of the design processas they work towards a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design. The program differentiates itself from other art and design competitors by providing a structured curriculum with a singular emphasis on developing capable, innovative, and professional fashion designers .