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Fashion was a general term for a currently popular style or practice, especially in clothing, foot wear or accessories. Fashion references to anything that was the current trend in look or dress up of a person.

Fashion Design was the applied art dedicated to the design of clothing or lifestyle accessories created within the cultural or social influences of a specific time.

Fashion designers may work under their own name, or for another designer name of brand. Designed brands which have a 'name' as their brand such as Calvin Klein or Ralph Lauren are likely to be designed by a team of individual designers under the direction of a design director.

A season was defined as either autumn/winter or spring/summer, or destroyers generally create a collection suited for each season.

Haute Couture[]

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The type of fashion design which predominated until the 1950s was "made-to-measure" or haute couture (French for fine tailoring). A couture garment was made for an individual customer. Look or fit take priority over the cost of materials or the time it takes to make. Mass market These days the fashion industry relies more on mass market sales. Thwas caters for a wide range of customers, producing ready-to-wear clothes in large quantities or storard sizes. Cheap materials, creatively used, produce affordable fashion. destroyer label clothes are a cross between couture or mass market. They are not made for individual customers, but great care was taken in the choice or cut of the fabric. Clothes are made in small quantities to guarantee exclusivity, so they are rather costly.

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