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MCM Fall 2018 My Connections Magazine Fashion Statement Entertainment Fashion is a style that is accepted and used by the majority of group at any one time, no matter how small that group is. Fashion is a vital, challenging, ever-changing force. In recent years significant "anti fashion" phenomenon has taken over the fashion industry e.g. wearing unconventional colors and fabric combination. Clothing style different social groups and communities from one another. Sequined dresses, chic ensembles and trendy shirts and skirts represented the true repertoire of the fashion. Fabrics like shiny fabrics, sating, polyester, blends and knits are the dominant features of fashion. It has been proven scientifically that colors play an important role in the psychological behavior of human being. Keeping these in mind designers are preferring naturally dyed fabrics and natural color. More about fashion as self expression This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them. Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems. Please send reports of such problems to REFINING STYLE IS ALways risky business, particularly in an area in which whim and hemline are so interwoven. Nevertheless, to be somewhat arbitrary about it, one could say that there are three distinct strata in the fashion realm: luxury, real and avant-garde. The luxury level consists of those women - and there are a surprisingly large number of them - with the means, and inclination, to indulge in the latest offerings of the world's statussetting dress designers. These talents - located in Paris, New York and Milan (Galanos, alone, creates in Los Angeles) - set styles that rapidly seep, through imitation and interpretation, into clothes for millions of less-affluent women who follow fashion trends. Then there is the real, encompassing the vast numbers of women who dress to get their work, whatever it is, done effectively. Because of the excellence of American design and current mass-production techniques, they too have a style to call their own. Finally, the avant-garde is just that: women who find pleasure in experimenting with adventurous, often strange, looks. The newness is usually an extension of personal daring, a flaunting of the conventional. Season after season, designers and manufacturers make suggestions to all three constituencies. Suggestions, not mandates. When it comes to fashion, American women will no longer take dictation. They pick and choose, leaving their dislikes unsold on the racks. 5
MCM Fall 2018 My Connections Magazine Fashion Statement Entertainment Therefore, to be fashionable today is to don something as disparate as a Chanel suit, a pair of blue jeans, a wildly dramatic coat with funnels for sleeves, a hip-sashed sexy chemise dress, a man's tailored suit. It is a short tight skirt. Also a long flowing one. A fur coat or one that is down-filled. It is a pair of high-heeled sandals, as well as sensible low-heeled ones; even running shoes. To dress up means donning a glamorous sequined ball gown, a stark T- shirt and pants, a demure silk print dress. For work, one gets into a carefully tailored suit, a sweater and skirt, a multilayered ensemble - or that same demure dress that another woman wears for an important evening. There are clothes that can be broadly categorized as sophisticated, familiar or strange; androgynous (a big movement at present) or instantly recognizable as feminine. There are extremely practical fashions, complicated ones, and those that make no bones about being frivolous and fragile. All of this would seem to make for a messy mishmash of notions, difficult to decipher and defeating for the woman with the interest and inclination to follow fashion trends. Yet there are certain ballasts that stabilize the situation. For one, there are the designers and manufacturers who address particular segments of society. The good ones make good points with what they design and produce, and women quickly come to rec- FASHION VIEW95 Organizers whose merchandise appeals to them, fits them properly and makes them feel well turned-out for their particular world. Another ballast is the trust generated by a particular store, salesperson or publication, acting as a guide in selecting the best of the new from the worst of it. Ideas may cross over from one group to another, but each segment manifests them in different ways. A good example is the current vogue of androgynous dressing. At the luxury level, a Giorgio Armani adapts the suits that he so superbly tailors for men into sophisticated and sexy attire for women. A Ralph Lauren takes men's clothing classics and renders them for women in such a way that they become delightfully feminine. At the real-life level, men's active wear is translated almost verbatim. The fit sometimes is slightly altered to better adapt to a woman's body, but it is still blue jeans, sweaters, T-shirts, bomber jackets, jogging and sports gear. The same designs that men wear. When androgynous is interpreted by the avant-garde, it is usually at its most aggressive. There often are no gender distinctions between what is worn by either sex. Seen from the back, a young person, radiating a certain sense of style, may be wearing an oversize man's jacket, tight pegged pants, crushed down boots. Slung over the shoulder is a big, soft, 6
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