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Fashion Design is the applied art dedicated to the design of clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and 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 is defined as either autumn/winter or spring/summer, and designers generally create a collection suited for each season.

Haute couture

The type of fashion design which predominated until the 1950s was "made-to-measure" or haute couture (French for fine tailoring). A couture garment is made for an individual customer. Look and fit take priority over the cost of materials and the time it takes to make.

Mass market

These days the fashion industry relies more on mass market sales. This caters for a wide range of customers, producing ready-to-wear clothes in large quantities and standard sizes. Cheap materials, creatively used, produce affordable fashion.

Designer label

Designer label clothes are a cross between couture and mass market. They are not made for individual customers, but great care is taken in the choice and cut of the fabric. Clothes are made in small quantities to guarantee exclusivity, so they are rather costly.

The history of fashion

Below are some links to walk you through a bit of fashion history.

http://fashion-era.com/

http://www.pbs.org/newhour/infofocus/fashion/whatisfashion.html

Online Fashion Retail

http://www.net-a-porter.com Try the page "Custom as an Affordable Alternative" for more options to designer clothes.

Net-A-Porter.com offers unprecedented access to the world’s cutting edge labels that fill the pages of the leading international fashion publications via worldwide express delivery. Launched in June 2000, NET-A-PORTER sells authentic current season clothing, shoes, and accessories, expertly selected by their editors for the fashion consumer worldwide. The fashion on the site represents the best looks by the trendiest labels from London, Paris, Milan, New York and Los Angeles in a prestigious line-up that includes Miu Miu, Chloé, Jimmy Choo, Bottega Veneta, Fendi and Marc Jacobs.

http://www.shopbop.com/

http://www.girlshop.com/

http://www.neimanmarcus.com/

http://www.styleshake.com/

http://www.fitley.com/

http://apparelus.com

Online fashion media

http://fabsugar.com/

http://coutorture.com/

http://www.theitlists.com/

http://fashion-stylist.net/blog

Fashion Model Agencies And Managers

Behind the scenes of the fashion industry there are numerous businesses and individuals who discover and promote fashion models. Supermodels are crucial to the successful advertisement of fashion labels as the perfect canvas. Supermodels often come from humble beginnings until they are discovered and nurtured by a talent scout or modeling agency.

Some well known agencies and managers are:

• Thomas Zeumer
• Metropolitan Models
• Ford Models
• Wilhelmina