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Luxury’s New Look sheds light on some background history on Europeans and the fashion as it relates to the late 17th and early 18th centuries up until this present day. Europeans have always had an eye on luxurious which is why now even more Europeans from Spain, Germany, France, and Italy have been constant shoppers high-end fashion and fine jewelry. Since the world is constantly going through many social changes, it affects the way in which people respond clothing and certain trends. For example, the environmental campaign for Earth awareness and the sense of social responsibility remains a factor for some people who choose not to buy items that involves animals or harsh elements that harm the atmosphere. This article does not include trends with the fashion and jewelry industry that suits the different people. It mostly gives a gentle overview of some of the things currently happens every year with fashion and the different designers who influence such styles such as Stella McCartney, the famed daughter of a famous singer form the Beatles, Paul McCartney. It doesn’t include much about fashion but tells about the people who might influenced or are influence by fashion. This article should have mentioned designers affect on the fashion world. This is not an article that is highly recommended because its lack of information about the profession.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, (2007). Fashion designers. Retrieved November 14, 2008, from U.S.
Department of Labor Occupational Outlook Handbook Web site: www.bls.gov/oco/ocos291.htm
The Unites States Department of Labor gives the statistics on the fashion occupation as well as other careers. It gives the reader information on the career of a fashion designer that includes the job outlook, the employment, job earnings etc. It also has a section on the page called Significant Points, which gives different facts on the career, for example, it mentions that almost one-fourth of the fashion designers are self-employed. For people who might be interested in the career of fashion design but are not certain about what the job entails can read about the nature of work. It talks about the different kinds of fashion designers, the design process, the affect of technology used in designing, and the subsectors of jobs that branch off the skill of the stated occupation. It compares and contrasts the work environment of the designers who are employed by manufacturing establishments, wholesalers, or design firms. To be employed by these businesses, individuals must attain either a two-year or a four-year degree in the design field and have knowledge on textiles, fabrics, ornamentation, and fashion trends. Future designers can learn the necessary skills that are required through internships with a design or manufacturing firms. You can also work in retail stores or by entering some designs in different designing contests. Even though this a career that keeps many interested in pursuing this field it is very competitive, with only one hundred people becoming fashion designers each year throughout the countries.
This site gives a lot of good information that covers every little and big detail about the career of a fashion designer. The detailed information introduces the reader in helping them to learn what to expect about a profession. Many people do not know whether their profession is very competitive, the different fields the lies within fashion or the best places to pursue fashion. This is the perfect site and is highly encouraged for anyone who is curious or interested about certain careers and its fields. The only thing that should be added is maybe the fashion schools that create the biggest opportunity for the students that attend seeing that some schools offer contests that have made some of the top designers of the world famous
Fashion and Clothing. (2005). Encyclopedia of African American Society. Retrieved
November 12,2008.
This article talks about African Americans and their affect globally in the fashion world. A museum in Washington, D.C. has a collection of dresses, costumes, and photo memorabilia that reflects on the history of Black Fashion. It features a yellow Sunday dress made by Rosa Parks and a copy of the dress made by former slave Elizabeth Keckley for Mary Todd Lincoln (Abraham Lincoln’s wife). This museum called the Black Fashion Museum was founded to “dispel(s) the myth that Black people are new-found talent in the fashion field” says the executive director of the museum, Joyce Bailey. It educates the masses about the designers who have contributed to the ways of fashion. Designers like Ann Lowe became famous when she designed Jacqueline Kennedy’s wedding dress in 1953 and Willi Smith and Patrick Kelly became famous when Smith designed a sportswear line and Kelly worked in Paris and women’s couture line. Even though both contributed to the fashion world greatly, neither has been as successful as Byron Lars has. He has paved the way for many urban wear designers who came out in the 1990s. His urban line inspired Hip Hop mogul Russell Simmons to design an urban line inspired by hip-hop. This is a good article because it shows how a racial group involved their heritage into there designs. Byron Lars designed some of his dresses with the prints that look like African masked, Willi Smith used African-inspired prints on his garments, and Patrick Kelly had designs that resembled the faces of mammies and Aunt Jemima . The only that would have made this article great would be maybe a little bit more history on the named designers and names of current Black designers that influence today’s fashion like Oswald Boateng.
Labi, A. (2008). Bling is the new black. Chronicle of Higher Education, 54. Retrieved
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This article focuses on fashion and religious customs. Middle Eastern women tend to have a hard time finding or defining their selves in a fashion world possibly due to the religious customs. A teacher by the name of Kimberly Guthrie, however, has inspired them to create their own way of fashion with the garments, which the average Muslim woman would wear. At the Virginia Commonwealth University, she has started a project in her fashion and merchandising class in which the students have to produce a collection of ten unconventional designs on an abaya- a head-to-toe garment worn by Muslim women in the Middle East. The students’ designs were sent to Qatar where they were examined for its style and loyalty to the religious customs. Some samples where also sewn and sent out along with the designs to be tailored, finished and/or beaded or embroidered. This article is a perfect example for young students and designers who want to be innovative with fashion and still follow or adhere to the social customs in the society live in. It does not say how the city of Qatar reacted to the abaya’s but it does gives different ideas and shows teachers how to incorporate cultural traditions in the fashion courses.
Monaghan, P. (2008). Clothes course. Chronicle of High Education, Vol.54. Retrieved
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