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Fashion is a term used interchangeably to describe the creation of clothing, footwear, accessories, cosmetics, and jewellery of different cultural aesthetics and their mix and match into outfits that depict distinctive ways of dressing (styles and trends) as signifiers of social status, self-expression, and group belonging. As a multifaceted term, fashion describes an industry, styles, aesthetics, and trends.

The term 'fashion' originates from the Latin word 'Facere,' which means 'to make,' and describes the manufacturing, mixing, and wearing of outfits adorned with specific cultural aesthetics, patterns, motifs, shapes, and cuts, allowing people to showcase their group belonging, values, meanings, beliefs, and ways of life. Given the rise in mass production of commodities and clothing at lower prices and global reach, reducing fashion's environmental impact and improving sustainability has become an urgent issue among politicians, brands, and consumers. (Full article...)

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Triumph International is a Swiss underwear manufacturer founded in 1886 in Heubach, Germany. The company's headquarters has been located in Bad Zurzach, Switzerland, since 1977, and it has branches in 45 countries. In addition to the Triumph brand, the company produces and distributes the products under the brands sloggi and AMO’s Style by Triumph.

Triumph International has been an industry leader, particularly in women's and sleepwear, since the 1960s. Shares of the German subsidiary have been traded on the stock exchange until 2011. (Full article...)

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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. The producing sectors build upon a wealth of clothing technology some of which, like the loom, the cotton gin, and the sewing machine heralded industrialization not only of the previous textile manufacturing practices. Clothing industries are also known as allied industries, fashion industries, garment industries, or soft goods industries. (Full article...)

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Credit: Photo courtesy of: Michele Merkin

A glamour shot showing Michele Merkin, an American model and television host. Merkin has appeared in such magazines as ELLE, Marie Claire, Harper's Bazaar and Vogue. She has hosted The Next Best Thing, E! News Daily, NBC's For Love or Money and VH1's Red Eye.

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... that the black Givenchy dress worn by Audrey Hepburn (pictured) in the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's has been called "perhaps the most famous little black dress of all time"?
... that after winning the 1957 Cotton Fashion Award, designer Anne Fogarty showed off dresses in goldfish colours?
... that fashion magazine Marie Claire's co-founder Marcelle Auclair also wrote biographies of socialist Jean Jaurès and Catholic Saints Teresa of Ávila and Bernadette of Lourdes?

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Gomes at David Jones AW13 Fashion Launch (2013)

Jessica Gomes (born 25 September 1985) is an Australian model who appeared in the Swimsuit Issue of the American publication Sports Illustrated every year from 2008 to 2015. She works extensively in Australia and Asia.

Gomes was the featured spokesperson for Australian company David Jones Limited from 2013 to Dec 2019. She has also been a spokesperson for South Korean conglomerates LG Electronics and Hyundai. Gomes served as the face of the Estee Lauder/Sean John fragrance "Unforgivable". (Full article...)

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Susannah Constantine Anna Wintour Bronwyn Bancroft Victoria Beckham Tory Burch Gwen Stefani Lily Cole Giles Deacon Milla Jovovich Trinny Woodall Gisele Bündchen Marjorie Schick Stanley Marcus Frankie Rayder Ariel Meredith Joanne Gair Natacha Rambova Carly Foulkes Emily Ratajkowski Chloë Sevigny Kylie Minogue Adriana Lima Coco Chanel

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... that fashion journalists joked that it was "a miracle" that no models fell while walking the runway in the 12-inch (30 cm) armadillo shoes designed in 2010 by Alexander McQueen?
... that Carlisle miser Margery Jackson, who chose to live like a pauper, possessed a fine court mantua?
... that the only remaining artifact in the ghost town of Fremont, Oregon, is a juniper stump notched with steps that women travelers used to mount horses in a modest fashion?
... that the melting of the Platigliole Glacier in Italy has revealed artefacts of the White War, including clothing and hay more than 100 years old?
... that the Alexander McQueen collection Neptune drew negative reviews comparing the clothing to 1980s science fiction, Xena, and Wonder Woman?
... that among the special events broadcast by the Maine Television Network during its brief existence were a fashion show, a basketball tournament, and an ordination ceremony?

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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.

— Karl Lagerfeld

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Fashion design • History • Haute couture • Ready-to-wear • Costume design • Jewelry design • German • French • Italian • South American • Pattern • Tailor • Textile • Stylist • Buyer • Dressmaker • Illustration • Forecasting • Model • Fitting model • Journalism

History of Western fashion • Ancient world • Egyptian • Biblical • Greek • Roman • Byzantine • Early Medieval • Anglo-Saxon • 12th century • 13th century • 14th century • 15th century • 1500–1550 • 1550–1600 • 1600–1650 • 1650–1700 • 1700–1750 • 1750–1775 • 1775–1795 • 1795–1820 • 1820s • Victorian • 1830s • 1840s • 1850s • 1860s • 1870s • 1890s • 1900s • 1910s • 1920s • 1930-1945 • 1945-1956 • 1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s • 2010s

Materials • Cotton • Fur • Leather • Linen • Nylon • Polyester • Rayon • Silk • Spandex • Wool

Dresses • Ball gown • Cocktail dress • Débutante dress • Evening gown • Gown • Jumper dress • Little black dress • Opera gloves • Petticoat • Sari • Shirtdress • Sundress • Tea gown • Wedding dress • Wrap dress

Footwear • Athletic shoe • Boot • Court shoe • Dress shoe • Flip-flops • Sandal • Shoe • Slipper

Hosiery • Bodystocking • Fully fashioned stockings • Hold-ups • Leg warmer • Leggings • Pantyhose • RHT stockings • Sock • Stocking • Tights • Toe Sock • Toe tights

Tops • Blouse • Crop top • Dress shirt • Halterneck • Henley shirt • Hoodie • Jersey • Guernsey • Poet shirt • Polo shirt • Shirt • Sleeveless shirt • Sweater • Sweater vest • T-shirt • Tube top • Turtleneck • Twinset

Trousers or pants • Bell-bottoms • Bermuda shorts • Bondage pants • Capri pants • Cargo pants • Culottes • Cycling shorts • Dress pants • Jeans • Jodhpurs • Overall • Parachute pants • Phat pants • Shorts • Sweatpants • Windpants • Yoga pants

Skirts • A-line skirt • Denim skirt • Leather skirt • Men's skirts • Microskirt • Miniskirt • Pencil skirt • Prairie skirt • Rah-rah skirt • Skort • Wrap

Suits and uniforms • Academic dress • Black tie • Cleanroom suit • Clerical clothing • Court dress • Gymslip • Jumpsuit • Kasaya • Lab coat • Morning dress • Pantsuit • Red Sea rig • Romper suit • Scrubs • Stroller • Tuxedo • White tie

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