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268 relations: Abraham Bosse, Adornment, Aesthetics, Aesthetics (textile), Aircraft pilot, Al-Andalus, Albrecht Dürer, American Civil Liberties Union, Ancien régime, Ancient Greece, Androgyny, Anthropology, Anti-fashion, Aquamarine (color), Art history, Asia, Baghdad, Baroque, Baseball uniform, Belief, Bell-bottoms, Beyoncé, Bourgeoisie, Bralessness, Caliphate, Capitalization (disambiguation), Cardigan (sweater), Córdoba, Spain, Celebrity, Charles Frederick Worth, Chelsea boot, Cheongsam, Children's hospice, China, Chronos, Civil disorder, Clothing, Clothing industry, College, Color of clothing, Combined oral contraceptive pill, Commoditization, Commodity, Coral (color), Cosmetics, Costume party, Cowboy boot, Cravat (early), Cultural evolution, Cyan, ... Expand index (218 more) »
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Abraham Bosse
Abraham Bosse (– 14 February 1676) was a French artist, mainly as a printmaker in etching, but also in watercolour.
Adornment
An adornment is generally an accessory or ornament worn to enhance the beauty or status of the wearer. Fashion and adornment are history of clothing.
Aesthetics
Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.
Aesthetics (textile)
Aesthetics in textiles is one of the basic concepts of serviceability of textiles.
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Aircraft pilot
An aircraft pilot or aviator is a person who controls the flight of an aircraft by operating its directional flight controls.
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Al-Andalus
Al-Andalus was the Muslim-ruled area of the Iberian Peninsula.
Albrecht Dürer
Albrecht Dürer (21 May 1471 – 6 April 1528),Müller, Peter O. (1993) Substantiv-Derivation in Den Schriften Albrecht Dürers, Walter de Gruyter.
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American Civil Liberties Union
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is an American nonprofit human rights organization founded in 1920.
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Ancien régime
The ancien régime was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France that the French Revolution overturned through its abolition in 1790 of the feudal system of the French nobility and in 1792 through its execution of the king and declaration of a republic.
Ancient Greece
Ancient Greece (Hellás) was a northeastern Mediterranean civilization, existing from the Greek Dark Ages of the 12th–9th centuries BC to the end of classical antiquity, that comprised a loose collection of culturally and linguistically related city-states and other territories.
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Androgyny
Androgyny is the possession of both masculine and feminine characteristics. Fashion and Androgyny are fashion aesthetics.
Anthropology
Anthropology is the scientific study of humanity, concerned with human behavior, human biology, cultures, societies, and linguistics, in both the present and past, including archaic humans.
Anti-fashion
Anti-fashion is an umbrella term for various styles of dress that are explicitly contrary to the fashion of the day. Fashion and Anti-fashion are fashion aesthetics.
Aquamarine (color)
Aquamarine is a color that is a light tint of teal, in between cyan and green on the color wheel.
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Art history
Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past.
Asia
Asia is the largest continent in the world by both land area and population.
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Baghdad
Baghdad (or; translit) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab and in West Asia after Tehran.
Baroque
The Baroque is a Western style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, poetry, and other arts that flourished from the early 17th century until the 1750s.
Baseball uniform
A baseball uniform is a type of uniform worn by baseball players, coaches and managers.
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Belief
A belief is a subjective attitude that a proposition is true or a state of affairs is the case.
Bell-bottoms
Bell-bottoms (or flares) are a style of trousers that become wider from the knees downward, forming a bell-like shape of the trouser leg.
Beyoncé
Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (Knowles; born September 4, 1981) is an American singer, songwriter, and businesswoman.
Bourgeoisie
The bourgeoisie are a class of business owners and merchants which emerged in the Late Middle Ages, originally as a "middle class" between peasantry and aristocracy.
Bralessness
In Western society, since the 1960s, there has been a slow but steady trend towards bralessness among a number of women, especially millennials, who have expressed opposition to and are giving up wearing bras.
Caliphate
A caliphate or khilāfah (خِلَافَةْ) is a monarchical form of government (initially elective, later absolute) that originated in the 7th century Arabia, whose political identity is based on a claim of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad and the identification of a monarch called caliph (خَلِيفَةْ) as his heir and successor.
Capitalization (disambiguation)
Capitalization is writing a word with its first letter in upper case and the remaining letters in lower case.
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Cardigan (sweater)
A cardigan is a type of knitted sweater that has an open front, and is worn like a jacket.
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Córdoba, Spain
Córdoba, or sometimes Cordova, is a city in Andalusia, Spain, and the capital of the province of Córdoba.
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Celebrity
Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media.
Charles Frederick Worth
Charles Frederick Worth (13 October 1825 – 10 March 1895) was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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Chelsea boot
Chelsea boots are close-fitting, ankle-high boots with elastic side panels.
Cheongsam
Cheongsam or zansae, also known as the qipao and sometimes referred to as the mandarin gown, is a Chinese dress worn by women which takes inspiration from the, the ethnic clothing of the Manchu people.
Children's hospice
A children's hospice is a hospice specifically designed to help children and young people who are not expected to reach adulthood with the emotional and physical challenges they face, and also to provide respite care for their families.
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.
Chronos
Chronos (Χρόνος,, "time"), also spelled Khronos or Chronus, is a personification of time in pre-Socratic philosophy and later literature.
Civil disorder
Civil disorder, also known as civil disturbance, civil unrest, civil strife, or turmoil, are situations when law enforcement struggle to maintain public order or tranquility.
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Clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes, garments, dress, apparel, or attire) is any item worn on the body.
Clothing industry
Clothing industry or garment industry summarizes the types of trade and industry along the production and value chain of clothing and garments, starting with the textile industry (producers of cotton, wool, fur, and synthetic fibre), embellishment using embroidery, via the fashion industry to apparel retailers up to trade with second-hand clothes and textile recycling.
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College
A college (Latin: collegium) is an educational institution or a constituent part of one.
Color of clothing
Color is an essential aspect of the aesthetic properties of clothing.
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Combined oral contraceptive pill
The combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), often referred to as the birth control pill or colloquially as "the pill", is a type of birth control that is designed to be taken orally by women.
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Commoditization
In business literature, commoditization is defined as the process by which goods that have economic value and are distinguishable in terms of attributes (uniqueness or brand) end up becoming simple commodities in the eyes of the market or consumers.
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Commodity
In economics, a commodity is an economic good, usually a resource, that specifically has full or substantial fungibility: that is, the market treats instances of the good as equivalent or nearly so with no regard to who produced them.
Coral (color)
The various tones of the color coral are orange, red and pink representations of the colors of those cnidarians known as precious corals.
Cosmetics
Cosmetics are composed of mixtures of chemical compounds derived from either natural sources or synthetically created ones.
Costume party
A costume party (American English) or fancy dress party (other varieties of English) is a type of party, common in contemporary Western culture, in which many of the guests are dressed in costume, usually depicting a fictional or stock character, or historical figure.
Cowboy boot
Cowboy boots are a specific style of riding boot, historically worn by cowboys.
Cravat (early)
The cravat is a neckband, the forerunner of the modern tailored necktie and bow tie, originating from a style worn by members of the 17th century military unit known as the Cravats.
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Cultural evolution
Cultural evolution is an evolutionary theory of social change.
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Cyan
Cyan is the color between blue and green on the visible spectrum of light.
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Designer clothing
Designer clothing is clothing designed by a particular fashion designer or licensed by a person or brand.
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Digital fashion
Digital Fashion is a field of fashion design that relies on 3D software or artificial intelligence to produce hyper-realistic, data-intensive digital 3D garment simulations that are digital-only products or digital models for physical products.
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Dopamine
Dopamine (DA, a contraction of 3,4-dihydroxyphenethylamine) is a neuromodulatory molecule that plays several important roles in cells.
Dress
A dress (also known as a frock or a gown) is a garment worn by women or girls consisting of a skirt with an attached bodice (or a matching bodice giving the effect of a one-piece garment). Fashion and dress are history of clothing.
Dress code
A dress code is a set of rules, often written, with regard to what clothing groups of people must wear.
Duster (clothing)
A duster is a light, loose-fitting, long coat.
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Dutch people
The Dutch (Dutch) are an ethnic group native to the Netherlands.
E-textiles
Electronic textiles or e-textiles are fabrics that enable electronic components such as batteries, lights, sensors, and microcontrollers to be embedded in them.
Early modern Europe
Early modern Europe, also referred to as the post-medieval period, is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the mid 15th century to the late 18th century.
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Edo period
The, also known as the, is the period between 1603 and 1868 in the history of Japan, when Japan was under the rule of the Tokugawa shogunate and the country's 300 regional daimyo.
Electric blue (color)
Electric blue is a color whose definition varies but is often considered close to cyan, and which is a representation of the color of lightning, an electric spark, and the color of ionized argon gas; it was originally named after the ionized air glow produced during electrical discharges, though its meaning has broadened to include shades of blue that are metaphorically "electric" by virtue of being "intense" or particularly "vibrant".
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Elite
In political and sociological theory, the elite (élite, from eligere, to select or to sort out) are a small group of powerful people who hold a disproportionate amount of wealth, privilege, political power, or skill in a group.
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American comedian, actress, television host, and writer.
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Environmental impact of fashion
The fashion industry, particularly manufacture and use of apparel and footwear, is a significant driver of greenhouse gas emissions and plastic pollution.
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Ephemerality
Ephemerality (from the Greek word ἐφήμερος, meaning 'lasting only one day') is the concept of things being transitory, existing only briefly. Fashion and Ephemerality are concepts in aesthetics.
Fad
A fad, trend, or craze is any form of collective behavior that develops within a culture, a generation or social group in which a group of people enthusiastically follow an impulse for a short time period. Fashion and fad are cultural trends.
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Fashion accessory
In fashion, an accessory is an item used to contribute, in a secondary manner, to an individual's outfit.
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Fashion activism
Fashion activism is the practice of using fashion as a medium for social, political, and environmental change.
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Fashion blog
Fashion blogs are blogs that cover the fashion industry, clothing, and lifestyle related topics.
Fashion capital
A fashion capital is a city with major influence on the international fashion scene, from history, heritage, designers, trends, and styles, to manufacturing innovation and retailing of fashion products, including events such as fashion weeks, fashion council awards, and trade fairs that together, generate significant economic output.
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Fashion design
Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories.
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Fashion journalism
Fashion journalism is a component of fashion media, with a focus on writing and photojournalism.
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Fashion law
Fashion law deals with legal issues that impact the fashion industry.
Fashion psychology
Fashion psychology, as a branch of applied psychology, applies psychological theories and principles to understand and explain the relationship between fashion and human behavior, including how fashion affects emotions, self-esteem, and identity.
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Fashion show
A fashion show (French défilé de mode) is an event put on by a fashion designer to showcase their upcoming line of clothing and/or accessories during a fashion week.
Fashion Theory
Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Routledge.
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Fashion victim
"Fashion victim" is a term claimed to have been coined by Oscar de la Renta that is used to identify a person who is unable to identify commonly recognized boundaries of style.
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Fashion week
A fashion week is a week-long fashion industry event where fashion designers, brands, or "houses" display their latest collections in runway fashion shows to buyers and the media which influences upcoming fashion trends for the current and approaching seasons.
FashionTelevision
FashionTelevision, also known as FT, is a Canadian-produced special interest show focusing on fashion.
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FashionTV
FashionTV is an international fashion and lifestyle broadcasting television channel.
Faux pas
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Fernand Braudel
Fernand Paul Achille Braudel (24 August 1902 – 27 November 1985) was a French historian.
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Fetish fashion
Fetish fashion is any style or appearance in the form of a type of clothing or accessory, created to be extreme, revealing, skimpy, or provocative in a fetishistic manner.
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Fiber
Fiber or fibre (British English; from fibra) is a natural or artificial substance that is significantly longer than it is wide.
Film industry
The film industry or motion picture industry comprises the technological and commercial institutions of filmmaking, i.e., film production companies, film studios, cinematography, animation, film production, screenwriting, pre-production, post-production, film festivals, distribution, and actors.
Fitness culture
Fitness culture is a sociocultural phenomenon surrounding exercise and physical fitness.
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Foot binding
Foot binding, or footbinding, was the Chinese custom of breaking and tightly binding the feet of young girls to change their shape and size.
Footwear
Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which typically serve the purpose of protection against adversities of the environment such as wear from rough ground; stability on slippery ground; and temperature.
Fur
Fur is a thick growth of hair that covers the skin of almost all mammals. Fashion and Fur are history of clothing.
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Fuyao (fashion)
(), sometimes translated as Fortune and prosperity in English, is an ancient Chinese concept with a negative connotation which was employed to refer to any garment items or clothing-style which was considered as being "strange clothing style" or "deviant dressing styles", or "aberrance in clothing" when compared to what was considered appropriate in the traditional Chinese clothing,, system. Fashion and Fuyao (fashion) are concepts in aesthetics, cultural trends, fashion aesthetics and history of clothing.
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Gap Inc.
The Gap, Inc., commonly known as Gap Inc. or Gap (stylized as GAP), is an American worldwide clothing and accessories retailer.
Garment District, Manhattan
The Garment District, also known as the Garment Center, the Fashion District, or the Fashion Center, is a neighborhood located in the borough of Manhattan in New York City.
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Gazette du Bon Ton
The Gazette du Bon Ton was a small but influential fashion magazine published in France from 1912 to 1925.
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Genroku culture
is the term used to describe the culture of the early Edo period (1603–1867), in particular the Genroku era of 1688–1704.
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Georg Simmel
Georg Simmel (1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic.
Gilet
A gilet or body warmer is a sleeveless jacket resembling a waistcoat or blouse.
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben (born 22 April 1942) is an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-life (borrowed from Ludwig Wittgenstein) and homo sacer.
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Gold (color)
Gold, also called golden, is a color tone resembling the gold chemical element.
Gucci
Guccio Gucci S.p.A., doing business as Gucci, is an Italian luxury fashion house based in Florence, Italy.
Guild
A guild is an association of artisans and merchants who oversee the practice of their craft/trade in a particular territory.
Guillaume de Lorris
Guillaume de Lorris was a French scholar and poet from Lorris.
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H&M
H & M Hennes & Mauritz AB is a multinational clothing company based in Sweden that focuses on fast-fashion clothing.
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Hanfu
Hanfu (lit. "Han clothing"), are the traditional styles of clothing worn by the Han Chinese since the 2nd millennium BCE.
Harvard Business Review
Harvard Business Review (HBR) is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.
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Haute couture
Haute couture (French for 'high sewing', 'high dressmaking') is the creation of exclusive custom-fitted high-end fashion design.
Hip-huggers
Hip-huggers are pants worn by both men and women, generally made of denim and fitted tightly around the hips and thighs, while usually having flared or bell-bottom lower legs.
History of fashion design
History of fashion design refers specifically to the development of the purpose and intention behind garments, shoes, accessories, and their design and construction.
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History of Western fashion
The following is a chronological list of articles covering the history of Western fashion—the story of the changing fashions in clothing in countries under influence of the Western world—from the 5th century to the present.
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Hostile attribution bias
Hostile attribution bias, or hostile attribution of intent, is the tendency to interpret others' behaviors as having hostile intent, even when the behavior is ambiguous or benign.
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Human physical appearance
Human physical appearance is the outward phenotype or look of human beings. Fashion and human physical appearance are aesthetics.
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Igbo people
The Igbo people (also spelled Ibo" and historically also Iboe, Ebo, Eboe, / / Eboans, Heebo; natively Ṇ́dị́ Ìgbò) are an ethnic group in Nigeria.
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant (born Emanuel Kant; 22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers.
Imperialism
Imperialism is the practice, theory or attitude of maintaining or extending power over foreign nations, particularly through expansionism, employing both hard power (military and economic power) and soft power (diplomatic power and cultural imperialism).
Index of fashion articles
This is a list of existing articles related to fashion and clothing.
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India
India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.
Industrialisation
Industrialisation (UK) or industrialization (US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.
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Internet celebrity
An internet celebrity (also referred to as a social media influencer, social media personality, internet personality, or influencer) is an individual who has acquired or developed their fame and notability on the Internet. Fashion and internet celebrity are cultural trends.
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Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran (IRI), also known as Persia, is a country in West Asia. It borders Turkey to the northwest and Iraq to the west, Azerbaijan, Armenia, the Caspian Sea, and Turkmenistan to the north, Afghanistan to the east, Pakistan to the southeast, the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south.
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Iris van Herpen
Iris van Herpen (born June 5, 1984) is a Dutch fashion designer known for fusing technology with traditional haute couture craftsmanship.
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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Jacqueline "Jackie" Lee Kennedy Onassis (July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994) was an American writer, book editor, and socialite who served as the first lady of the United States from 1961 to 1963, as the wife of former president John F. Kennedy.
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James Laver
James Laver, CBE, FRSA (14 March 1899 – 3 June 1975) was an English author, critic, art historian, and museum curator who acted as Keeper of Prints, Drawings and Paintings for the Victoria and Albert Museum between 1938 and 1959.
Japanese clothing
There are typically two types of clothing worn in Japan: traditional clothing known as, including the national dress of Japan, the kimono, and, which encompasses all else not recognised as either national dress or the dress of another country.
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Jean-Baptiste Say
Jean-Baptiste Say (5 January 1767 – 15 November 1832) was a liberal French economist and businessman who argued in favor of competition, free trade and lifting restraints on business.
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Jeans
Jeans are a type of trousers made from denim or dungaree cloth.
Jewellery
Jewellery (or jewelry in American English) consists of decorative items worn for personal adornment, such as brooches, rings, necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, and cufflinks.
Jumpsuit
A jumpsuit is a one-piece garment with sleeves and legs and typically without integral coverings for feet, hands or head.
Juvenile Protective Association
Juvenile Protective Association (JPA) is a private non-profit agency devoted to protecting children from abuse and neglect by providing intervention and treatment services to families in Chicago.
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Kabuki
is a classical form of Japanese theatre, mixing dramatic performance with traditional dance.
Kairos
Kairos (καιρός) is an ancient Greek word meaning 'the right or critical moment'.
Khadi
Khadi, derived from khaddar, is a hand-spun and woven natural fibre cloth promoted by Mahatma Gandhi as ''swadeshi'' (self-sufficiency) for the freedom struggle of the Indian subcontinent, and the term is used throughout India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.
Kimberly Ovitz
Kimberly Ovitz (born July 10, 1983) is an American fashion designer and founder/creative director of the fashion line Kimberly Ovitz.
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Kimono
The is a traditional Japanese garment and the national dress of Japan.
Kit (association football)
In association football, kit (also referred to as a strip or uniform) is the standard equipment and attire worn by players.
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Latex clothing
Latex rubber is used in the manufacture of many types of clothing.
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Leather
Leather is a strong, flexible and durable material obtained from the tanning, or chemical treatment, of animal skins and hides to prevent decay.
Letterman (sports)
In sports or activities in the United States, a letterman is a high school or college student who has met a specified level of participation or performance on a varsity team.
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Lolita fashion
is a subculture from Japan that is highly influenced by Victorian clothing and styles from the Rococo period. Fashion and Lolita fashion are fashion aesthetics.
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London
London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.
London Fashion Week
London Fashion Week (LFW) is a clothing trade show that takes place in London, UK, twice a year, in February and September.
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Louis XIV
LouisXIV (Louis-Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
Louis XIV style
The Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze, also called French classicism, was the style of architecture and decorative arts intended to glorify King Louis XIV and his reign.
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Machine vision
Machine vision is the technology and methods used to provide imaging-based automatic inspection and analysis for such applications as automatic inspection, process control, and robot guidance, usually in industry.
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Made-to-measure
Made-to-measure (MTM) typically refers to custom clothing that is cut and sewn using a standard-sized base pattern.
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Madras (cloth)
Madras is a lightweight cotton fabric with typically patterned texture and tartan design, used primarily for summer clothing such as pants, shorts, lungi, dresses, and jackets. Fashion and Madras (cloth) are fashion aesthetics.
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Magenta
Magenta is a purplish-red color.
Manhattan
Manhattan is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City.
Marina DeBris
Marina DeBris is the name used by an Australian-based artist whose work focuses on reusing trash to raise awareness of ocean and beach pollution.
Market research
Market research is an organized effort to gather information about target markets and customers.It involves understanding who they are and what they need.
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Masquerade ball
A masquerade ball (or bal masqué) is a special kind of formal ball which many participants attend in costume wearing masks.
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Mass production
Mass production, also known as flow production, series production, series manufacture, or continuous production, is the production of substantial amounts of standardized products in a constant flow, including and especially on assembly lines.
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Maximalism
In the arts, maximalism, a reaction against minimalism, is an aesthetic of excess. Fashion and maximalism are aesthetics.
Merchandising
Merchandising is any practice which contributes to the sale of products to a retail consumer.
Met Gala
The Met Gala, formally called the Costume Institute Benefit, is the annual haute couture fundraising festival held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute in Manhattan.
Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages or medieval period (also spelt mediaeval or mediæval) lasted from approximately 500 to 1500 AD.
Midriff
In fashion, the midriff is the human abdomen.
Milan
Milan (Milano) is a city in northern Italy, regional capital of Lombardy, and the second-most-populous city proper in Italy after Rome.
Milan Fashion Week
Milan Fashion Week (Settimana della moda di Milano) is a clothing trade show held semi-annually in Milan, Italy.
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Ming dynasty
The Ming dynasty, officially the Great Ming, was an imperial dynasty of China, ruling from 1368 to 1644 following the collapse of the Mongol-led Yuan dynasty.
Moccasin
A moccasin is a shoe, made of deerskin or other soft leather, consisting of a sole (made with leather that has not been "worked") and sides made of one piece of leather, stitched together at the top, and sometimes with a vamp (additional panel of leather).
Modest fashion
The term modest fashion or modest dressing refers to a fashion trend in women of wearing less skin-revealing clothes, especially in a way that satisfies their spiritual and stylistic requirements for reasons of faith, religion or personal preference.
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Motif (textile arts)
In the textile arts, a motif (also called a block or square) is a smaller element in a much larger work.
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Music industry
The music industry refers to the individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent and supply music creators.
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Navy blue
Navy blue is a dark shade of the color blue.
Necktie
A necktie, or simply a tie, is a piece of cloth worn for decorative purposes around the neck, resting under the shirt collar and knotted at the throat, and often draped down the chest.
New York (magazine)
New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.
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New York Fashion Week
New York Fashion Week (NYFW), held in February and September of each year, is a semi-annual series of events in Manhattan typically spanning seven to nine days when international fashion collections are shown to buyers, the press, and the general public.
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New York Post
The New York Post (NY Post) is an American conservative daily tabloid newspaper published in New York City.
Old French
Old French (franceis, françois, romanz; ancien français) was the language spoken in most of the northern half of France approximately between the late 8th and the mid-14th century.
Orientalism
In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects of the Eastern world (or "Orient") by writers, designers, and artists from the Western world.
Oyo Empire
The Oyo Empire was a Yoruba empire in West Africa.
Pantsuit
A pantsuit, also known as a trouser suit outside the United States, is a woman's suit of clothing consisting of pants and a matching or coordinating coat or jacket.
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city of France.
Paris Fashion Week
Paris Fashion Week (Semaine de la mode de Paris) is a series of designer presentations held semi-annually in Paris, France, with spring/summer and autumn/winter events held each year.
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Pea coat
A pea coat (or peacoat, pea jacket, pilot jacket) is an outer coat, generally of a navy-coloured heavy wool, originally worn by sailors of European and later American navies.
PEST analysis
In business analysis, PEST analysis ("political, economic, socio-cultural and technological") describes a framework of macro-environmental factors used in the environmental scanning component of strategic management.
Pierre Bourdieu
Pierre Bourdieu (1 August 1930 – 23 January 2002) was a French sociologist and public intellectual.
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Pierre Cardin
Pierre Cardin, born Pietro Costante Cardin (2 July 1922 – 29 December 2020), was an Italian-born naturalised-French fashion designer.
Pinstripes
Pinstripes are a pattern of very thin stripes of any color running in parallel.
Planned Parenthood
The Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc. (PPFA), or simply Planned Parenthood, is an American nonprofit organization, p. 18.
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Platform shoe
Platform shoes are shoes, boots, or sandals with a thick sole, usually in the range of.
Portuguese people
The Portuguese people (– masculine – or Portuguesas) are a Romance-speaking ethnic group and nation indigenous to Portugal, a country in the west of the Iberian Peninsula in the south-west of Europe, who share a common culture, ancestry and language.
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Prabal Gurung
Prabal Gurung (प्रवल गुरुङ) (born 1979) is a Nepalese–American fashion designer based in New York City.
Preppy
Preppy (also spelled as preppie), or prep, is an American subculture associated with the alumni of college-preparatory schools in the Northeastern United States. Fashion and preppy are fashion aesthetics.
Product placement
Product placement, also known as embedded marketing, is a marketing technique where references to specific brands or products are incorporated into another work, such as a film or television program, with specific promotional intent.
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Project Runway
Project Runway is an American reality television series that premiered on Bravo on December 1, 2004.
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Province
A province is an administrative division within a country or state.
Public relations
Public relations (PR) is the practice of managing and disseminating information from an individual or an organization (such as a business, government agency, or a nonprofit organization) to the public in order to influence their perception.
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Punk fashion
Punk fashion is the clothing, hairstyles, cosmetics, jewellery, and body modifications of the punk counterculture. Fashion and punk fashion are fashion aesthetics.
Qing dynasty
The Qing dynasty, officially the Great Qing, was a Manchu-led imperial dynasty of China and the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history.
Qualitative Sociology
Qualitative Sociology is an academic journal dealing with sociology.
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Ready-to-wear
Ready-to-wear (RTW)also called prêt-à-porter, or off-the-rack or off-the-peg in casual useis the term for garments sold in finished condition in standardized sizes, as distinct from made-to-measure or bespoke clothing tailored to a particular person's frame.
Red carpet fashion
Red carpet fashion consists of outfits worn on the red carpet at high-profile gala celebrity events such as award ceremonies and film premieres.
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Rococo
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco, also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama.
Roland Barthes
Roland Gérard Barthes (12 November 1915 – 26 March 1980) was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician.
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Rome
Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.
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Roxy Jacenko
Roxanne Jacenko (born 8 June 1980) is an Australian businesswoman and socialite who was one of the runners up on the third season of The Celebrity Apprentice Australia.
Royal blue
Royal blue is a deep and vivid shade of blue.
Rudi Gernreich
Rudolf "Rudi" Gernreich (August 8, 1922 April 21, 1985) was an Austrian-born American fashion designer whose avant-garde clothing designs are generally regarded as the most innovative and dynamic fashion of the 1960s.
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Salim Al-Hassani
Salim T. S. Al-Hassani is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Engineering and currently an Honorary Professorial Fellow at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Manchester.
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Salmon (color)
Salmon is a warm color ranging from light orange to pink, named after the color of salmon flesh.
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São Paulo Fashion Week
The São Paulo Fashion Week is a clothing trade show held semi-annually in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Seashell
A seashell or sea shell, also known simply as a shell, is a hard, protective outer layer usually created by an animal or organism that lives in the sea.
Self-expression values
Self-expression values are part of a core value dimension in the modernization process.
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Sewing machine
Diagram of a modern sewing machine Animation of a modern sewing machine as it stitches A sewing machine is a machine used to sew fabric and materials together with thread.
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Shalwar kameez
Shalwar kameez (also salwar kameez and less commonly shalwar qameez) is a traditional combination dress worn by men and women in South Asia, and Central Asia.
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Skirt
A skirt is the lower part of a dress or a separate outer garment that covers a person from the waist downwards. Fashion and skirt are history of clothing.
Slim-fit pants
Slim-fit pants or skinny jeans (when made of denim) are tight trousers that have a snug fit through the legs and end in a small leg opening that can be anywhere from 9" to 20" in circumference, depending on size.
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Snap fastener
A snap fastener, also called snap button, press button, press stud, press fastener, dome fastener, popper, snap and tich (or tich button), is a pair of interlocking discs, made out of a metal or plastic, commonly used in place of traditional buttons to fasten clothing and for similar purposes.
Social media
Social media are interactive technologies that facilitate the creation, sharing and aggregation of content (such as ideas, interests, and other forms of expression) amongst virtual communities and networks.
Social media in the fashion industry
Social media in the fashion industry refers to the use of social media platforms by fashion designers and users to promote and participate in trends.
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Social mobility
Social mobility is the movement of individuals, families, households or other categories of people within or between social strata in a society.
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Social phenomenon
Social phenomena or social phenomenon (singular) are any behaviours, actions, or events that takes place because of social influence, including from contemporary as well as historical societal influences.
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Social status
Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess.
Sophistication
Sophistication refers to the qualities of refinement, good taste, and wisdom. Fashion and Sophistication are aesthetics.
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Sport coat
A sport coat, also called a sport jacket (or sports coat or sports jacket in American English), is a men's smart casual lounge jacket designed to be worn on its own without matching trousers, traditionally for sporting purposes.
Stella Bruzzi
Stella Bruzzi, FBA (born 28 January 1962) is an Italian-born British scholar of film and media studies and currently Executive Dean of Arts and Humanities at University College London.
Stetson
Stetson is an American brand of hat manufactured by the John B. Stetson Company.
Stone washing
Stone washing is a textile manufacturing process used to give a newly manufactured cloth garment a worn appearance.
Street style
Street style is fashion that is considered to have emerged not from studios, but from the population at large.
Style (visual arts)
In the visual arts, style is a "... Fashion and style (visual arts) are concepts in aesthetics.
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Subculture
A subculture is a group of people within a cultural society that differentiates itself from the conservative and standard values to which it belongs, often maintaining some of its founding principles.
Suit
A suit, lounge suit, business suit or dress suit is a set of clothes comprising a suit jacket and trousers of identical textiles generally worn with a collared dress shirt, necktie, and dress shoes.
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Sumptuary law
Sumptuary laws (from Latin sūmptuāriae lēgēs) are laws that try to regulate consumption. Fashion and Sumptuary law are history of clothing.
Sustainable fashion
Sustainable fashion is a term describing efforts within the fashion industry to reduce its environmental impacts, protect workers producing garments, and uphold animal welfare.
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Sweater
A sweater (North American English) or pullover, also called a jersey or jumper (British English and Australian English), in Collins English Dictionary: "a knitted or crocheted garment covering the upper part of the body" is a piece of clothing, typically with long sleeves, made of knitted or crocheted material that covers the upper part of the body.
Sweater vest
A sweater vest (known as a tank top, sleeveless sweater, slipover, or sleeveless pullover in the UK) is an item of knitwear that is similar to a sweater, but without sleeves, usually with a low-cut neckline.
Tailor
A tailor is a person who makes or alters clothing, particularly in men's clothing.
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Group is an international company originating in England that publishes books and academic journals.
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Teen Vogue
Teen Vogue is an American online publication, formerly in print, launched in January 2003, as a sister publication to Vogue, targeted at teenage girls and young women.
Textile
Textile is an umbrella term that includes various fiber-based materials, including fibers, yarns, filaments, threads, different fabric types, etc.
Textile design
Textile design, also known as textile geometry, is the creative and technical process by which thread or yarn fibers are interlaced to form a piece of cloth or fabric, which is subsequently printed upon or otherwise adorned.
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Textile industry
The textile industry is primarily concerned with the design, production and distribution of textiles: yarn, cloth and clothing.
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The Confusions of Pleasure
The Confusions of Pleasure: Commerce and Culture in Ming China is an influential Passim, but states that the book is "now-influential": "...
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The Root (magazine)
The Root is an African American-oriented online magazine.
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The Times of India
The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.
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Timothy Brook
Timothy James Brook (Chinese name: 卜正民; born January 6, 1951) is a Canadian historian, sinologist, and writer specializing in the study of China (sinology).
Tokugawa shogunate
The Tokugawa shogunate (Tokugawa bakufu), also known as the, was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868.
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Tote bag
A tote bag is a large, typically unfastened bag with parallel handles that emerge from the sides of its pouch.
Trashion
Trashion (a portmanteau of trash and fashion) is a term for art, jewellery, fashion and objects for the home created from used, thrown-out, found and repurposed elements.
Turkey
Turkey, officially the Republic of Türkiye, is a country mainly in Anatolia in West Asia, with a smaller part called East Thrace in Southeast Europe.
Turkic peoples
The Turkic peoples are a collection of diverse ethnic groups of West, Central, East, and North Asia as well as parts of Europe, who speak Turkic languages.
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Turquoise (color)
Turquoise is a cyan color, based on the mineral of the same name.
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Ugg boots
Ugg boots are a unisex style of sheepskin boot originating in Australia.
Ugly Betty
Ugly Betty is an American comedy-drama television series developed by Silvio Horta that aired on ABC from September 28, 2006, to April 14, 2010.
Union Jack
The Union Jack or Union Flag is the de facto national flag of the United Kingdom.
Unisex
Unisex is an adjective indicating something is not sex-specific, i.e. is suitable for any type of sex.
Vestoj
Vestoj (meaning "clothing" in Esperanto) is an annual academic journal about dress and fashion.
Vivienne Westwood
Dame Vivienne Isabel Westwood (8 April 1941 – 29 December 2022) was an English fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.
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Vogue (magazine)
Vogue U.S., also known as American Vogue, or simply Vogue, (stylized in all caps) is a monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers style news, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway.
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Waistcoat
A waistcoat (UK and Commonwealth, or; colloquially called a weskit) or vest (US and Canada) is a sleeveless upper-body garment.
Watermelon
Watermelon (Citrullus lanatus) is a flowering plant species of the Cucurbitaceae family and the name of its edible fruit.
Wearable technology
Wearable technology is any technology that is designed to be used while worn.
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Wellington boot
A Wellington boot, often shortened to welly, and also known as a gumboot, rubber boot, or rain boot, is a type of waterproof boot made of rubber.
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West Africa
West Africa, or Western Africa, is the westernmost region of Africa. The United Nations defines Western Africa as the 16 countries of Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, and Togo, as well as Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha (United Kingdom Overseas Territory).Paul R.
Western culture
Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.
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Western dress codes
Western dress codes are a set of dress codes detailing what clothes are worn for what occasion.
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Western wear
Western wear is a category of men's and women's clothing which derives its unique style from the clothes worn in the 19th century Wild West.
Wide-leg jeans
Wide-leg jeans, colloquially called baggy pants, are a style of clothing popular from the early 1980s to the 2000s, and also during a brief revival in the 2020s.
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World Intellectual Property Organization
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO; Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) is one of the 15 specialized agencies of the United Nations (UN).
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Yellowstone (American TV series)
Yellowstone is an American neo-Western drama television series created by Taylor Sheridan and John Linson that premiered on June 20, 2018, on Paramount Network.
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Zebra
Zebras (subgenus Hippotigris) are African equines with distinctive black-and-white striped coats.
Ziryab
Abu l-Hasan 'Ali Ibn Nafi, better known as Ziryab, Zeryab, or Zaryab (789– 857) (rtl), was a singer, oud and lute player, composer, poet, and teacher.
1300–1400 in European fashion
Fashion in fourteenth-century Europe was marked by the beginning of a period of experimentation with different forms of clothing.
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16th century
The 16th century began with the Julian year 1501 (represented by the Roman numerals MDI) and ended with either the Julian or the Gregorian year 1600 (MDC), depending on the reckoning used (the Gregorian calendar introduced a lapse of 10 days in October 1582).
1970s in fashion
Fashion in the 1970s was about individuality.
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2000s in fashion
The fashion of the 2000s is often described as a global mash up, where trends saw the fusion of vintage styles, global and ethnic clothing (e.g. boho), as well as the fashions of numerous music-based subcultures.
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2016 United States presidential election
The 2016 United States presidential election was the 58th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 8, 2016.
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3D printing
3D printing or additive manufacturing is the construction of a three-dimensional object from a CAD model or a digital 3D model.
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Cultural trends
- Bandwagon effect
- Basic (slang)
- Body modification
- Camp (style)
- Chinoiserie in fashion
- Coolhunting
- Counter-flows
- Cuffing season
- Cultural views on the midriff and navel
- Culture of cosmetic surgery
- Diffusion (business)
- Fad
- Fads
- Fashion
- Feminization (sociology)
- Fuyao (fashion)
- Hashtag
- Hashtags
- Indigo Era
- Information Age
- Internet aesthetic
- Internet aesthetics
- Internet celebrity
- Internet memes
- Kaeli McEwen
- Kusoge
- List of facial hairstyles
- Normcore
- PVC clothing
- Passion gap
- Peclers
- Postmodernism
- Public opinion
- Radical chic
- Retro style
- Style
- Unicorn trend
- VTuber
- Vintage (design)
- Viral marketing
- Viral phenomenon
- Vs. (magazine)
- WGSN (trend forecasting)
- Yoruba tribal marks
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