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Haute-couture: expensive, fashionable and tailored clothes produced by leading fashion houses, different characteristics make a fashion brand a part of haute-couture label. According to Cambridge Dictionnary, Haute-Couture is "the designing, making, and selling of expensive fashionable clothing that is not sold in shops and is made by hand (=not using a machine, factory etc.), especially clothes made for a particular customer by a fashion company based in Paris that regularly shows clothes at fashion shows, also used to refer to the clothes themselves.".
The collection 25 of clothes has to be shown twice a year during Fashion Week, the brand has to make everything by hand, and needs to create the garments in two different ateliers. There must be at least 20 workers. Every year, the list of the fashion houses and company is renewed, except for the permanent names that don't need to prove that they fill alll the criterias, such as Chanel, Dior or Giambattista Valli.
Different aspect of design
-silhouette: shape and outline of a subject, 2D and 3D fe: in the Dior exhibition, we can see the work on shape: geometrical and neat.
-material: synthetic (polyester, nylon, acryclic...), natural (coton, wool, linen), recycled.
-techniques: craftsmanship (embroidery, pattern making, leather working...), industrial and mass producing (hyper-fast/ fast fashion, ready-to-wear).
Connections between fashion and identity
"Clothing choices can reflect personal tastes, beliefs, values and cultural backgrounds, making fashion a powerful tool for expressing one's identity." IIAD
Fashion has always been a way to express. Whether it is personal, political, cultural or a mix of all of them, when you genuinely think about what you're going to wear everyday, your looks reflect your personality and your beliefs.
Fashion can express your identity through colors, for example choosing one for the meaning: wearing black for a funeral, white for a wedding or yellow because it reminds us of happiness and sunshine. Through shape we can express our identity: if you see someone wearing a suit, they are more likely working in a corporate office.
On the contrary, fashion can also be a way to fit in, to make everyone seem equal, to create a sense of unity. For instance, kids wearing uniforms to school or wearing the same jersey as a football team, and of course cultural/ethnic clothing.
As a result, we can ask ourselves what conditions our perspective on fashion and identity? Does our personality or our background shape the way we dress, or are we influenced by what we see? In the end, do we really choose what we wear?
Fashion trends as a reflection of societal changes
