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Saturday, 10 November 2007

Fashion Industry - Larger By Far Than The Film Industry

By Trishia Lopez

Consider the fashion industry, a creative industry larger by far than the film, recorded music and book publishing industries. The fashion industry profits by setting trends in clothing, and then inducing consumers to follow those trends. Trend-driven consumption is good for the fashion industry, because it sells more clothing. In any event, the fashion industry’s ability to create trends is based on designers’ relative freedom to copy. Well, if the law prohibited fashion design copying, then the fashion industry would have a much harder time creating and responding to trends.

Fashion changes daily, so keep your finger on the pulse. Fashion industry clientele include both public and privately-held domestic and foreign apparel manufacturers, designers and retailers. The fashion industry profits by setting trends in clothing, and then inducing consumers to follow those trends. This process leads us to treat clothing as a status-conferring good to be replaced once the fashion changes, rather than as a durable good to be replaced only when all the buttons fall off. So if copyright law were extended to fashion designs, the unique innovation culture of the fashion world might come under intense legal scrutiny. 5055, a bill currently pending before the House which would extend copyright protection to fashion design.


The network allows individuals the opportunity to develop personal profiles to highlight their professional experience in the fashion industry. Certainly, the fashion industry would not function with out warehousing and distribution. Essentially, any business function that is directly relevant to the fashion industry or textile industry is welcome at the Fashion Industry Network. The primary goal of the network is to bring together members of the fashion industry in a friendly setting so that they that they can have open dialog regarding business matters.

Runway models, magazines and red carpets are often the images that spring to mind when someone mentions fashion; but what about all the people working behind the scenes who are bringing ideas to life. Whether you are interested in the creative, technical, or business side of fashion, there is virtually no end to the exciting career paths that you can follow in the fashion industry.

The creative side of the fashion industry offers careers as illustrators, textile designers, costume designers, stylists, and other apparel design positions. In addition, the business side of fashion could serve up a future as a fashion merchandiser, marketing executive, buyer, or trend forecaster. Coming up with new and exciting ways to design a garment is the most important task that a fashion designer or design team must contend with. This is where a fashion design education comes into play.

Fashionising is made up of the fashion lovers, socialites, men-about-town, models, designers, photographers, bloggers, and stylists who make the fashion world what it is. Fashion industry employers are located just about everywhere but most are concentrated in New York City (with over 5,000 showrooms), California (Los Angeles and San Francisco), Miami, London, Paris, and Italy.

Trishia Lopez is a successful Webmaster and publisher.
She provides information about Fashion and fashion issues that you can research in your pajamas.

Fashion is an art

from The Fashion Gurus

Fashion is an art, like architecture and music. Fashion is an ever-changing phenomenon that captivates the entire world. Though there are signs from earlier, it can be fairly clearly dated to the middle of the 14th century, to which historians including James Laver and Fernand Braudel date the start of fashion in clothing. The pace of change accelerated considerably in the following century, and women's fashion, especially in the dressing and adorning of the hair, became equally complex and changing. Fashion Art historians are therefore able to use fashion in dating images with increasing confidence and precision, often within five years in the case of 15th-century images. Initially changes in fashion led to a fragmentation of what had previously been very similar styles of dressing across the upper classes of Europe, and the development of distinctive national styles, which remained very different until a counter-movement in the 17th to 18th centuries imposed similar styles once again, finally those from Ancient regime France. The habit of continually changing the style of clothing worn, which is now worldwide, at least among urban populations, is a distinctively Western one.


The "Spanish style" of the end of the century began the move back to synchronicity among upper-class Europeans, and after a struggle in the mid 17th century, French styles decisively took over leadership, a process completed in the 18th century. Fashion The fashions of the West are unparalleled either in antiquity or in the other great civilizations of the world. Men's fashions largely derived from military models, and changes in a European male silhouette are galvanized in theatres of European war, where gentleman officers had opportunities to make notes of foreign styles: an example is the "Steinkirk" cravat or necktie. The pace of change picked up in the 1780s with the increased publication of French engravings that showed the latest Paris styles; though there had been distribution of dressed dolls from France as patterns since the sixteenth century, and Abraham Bosse had produced engravings of fashion from the 1620s.


Although tailors and dressmakers were no doubt responsible for many innovations before, and the textile industry certainly led many trends, the History of fashion design is normally taken to date from 1858, when the English-born Charles Frederick Worth opened the first true haute couture house in Paris. Since then the professional designer has become a progressively more dominant figure, despite the origins of many fashions in street fashion. When people who have cultural status start to wear new or different clothes a fashion trend may start. The terms "fashionista" or "fashion victim" refer to someone who slavishly follows the current fashions (implementations of fashion).


One can regard the system of sporting various fashions as a fashion language incorporating various fashion statements using a grammar of fashion. For some, modern fast-paced changes in fashion embody many of the negative aspects of capitalism: it results in waste and encourages people qua consumers to buy things unnecessarily. Other people, especially young people, enjoy the diversity that changing fashion can apparently provide, seeing the constant change as a way to satisfy their desire to experience "new" and "interesting" things.

Friday, 9 November 2007

Abu Original

Abu Original

Abu was born in Philadelphia and raised in Southern California. His talent was recognized at an early age when his first kindergarden art project was featured in the local newspaper. He's been expressing himself artistically ever since. He's mastered several different genres of art, such as BMX free-styling, hip-hop dancing and furniture design. His current focus is on leather accessories and apparel. Because Abu is self-taught, mass media and external influences do not dictate what he chooses to create. Each piece is hand-signed with his signature letter "a" which gives the final result an extra special touch. Through his work, Abu aspires to resore integrity and dexterity in fine American craftmanship, which is currently lost to big business and overseas mass production. Abu Original embraces the condept of a person's uniqueness and originality. With that in mind, no two pieces are identical. "You will no longer have to worry about having the same thing as others. If you're ready to become a trendsetter, you've come to the right place. Lead or be led." Abu Original.




ABU ORIGINAL leather necklace multiple strand swoosh wide designer jewelry. Silver hardware. Guaranteed authentic. One of a kind design. Each item is unique. No two items are ever exactly the same. Measures about 14 inches long from hook to eye closure. Worn as a choker style ina variety of positions around the neck. Only one available. Hand made by Abu. Select color from the drop down menu.

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