Fashion

Fashion is often named as one aspect of conceptual art due to matching of various elements when the unique and individual image is created with the help of clothes, accessories, color palette and other details. The link between the fashion and other spheres of art is traditional for many centuries. That is why the reputed fashion designers introduced the basic rules adopted for wear collections in modern style.

Fashion designers offered mini shorts for the season Autumn-Winter 2010/2011 when the climatic conditions did not favor for such revealing of body. The trend appeared to be too alluring, though. Thus, the famous trendsetter Alexa Chang appeared wearing leather mini shorts matched with a warm sweater. A glamorous woman admitted that she is keen on the pants of her grandma and she thinks of creating triumphant summer collection.

Paris is the major capital of the world fashion for over a century and this is natural since France is the lovely and elegant place that gave to the world so many legendary fashion designers including Chanel, Yves Saint-Laurent, Karl Lagerfeld, Jean-Paul Gaultier, and Christian Lacroix... And yet, Madeleine Vionnet whose collections influenced the world of fashion to the extent as the works by the iconic Coco Chanel when the designer solutions turned the vision of women of 20s and 30s upside down regards to clothes.

Suspenders is an accessory deeply rooted in men's wardrobe, though women who could not put up with such glaring inequality, borrowed and successfully incorporated this stylish item into their own wardrobe. They've been relegated to bankers and period movies until now. Today, when the boundaries of men's and women's fashion are becoming increasingly blurred, no one can argue the power of unisex, and some go as far as saying that suspenders in their present-day form suit women better than men. However, there is no need to be so categorical, as men wear suspenders as a tribute to traditions, while for women it's a way to experiment and explore new fashion territory.  Contemporary women will find any color, style, fabric or hardware in the ladies suspenders category. Trousers, jeans, skirts, jumpers or overalls can be elevated by a pair of suspenders. Wide or thin, fancy fabric or casual, women raise suspenders to a high-style elegance all their own.

Thermal underwear will give you a protection against the winter chills: owing to the high-tech fabric it retains the heat of the human body, and absorbs moisture at the same time. As an effective substitute for regular underwear, thermal underwear is popular with people who engage in strenuous physical activities and travel a lot, including explorers, and geologists. However, it would be a mistake to think that thermal underwear is designed exclusively for men working in harsh climates, or extreme sports enthusiasts. There is thermal underwear for women that has many undisputable advantages over the regular underwear. Various thermal underwear styles are designed for various weather conditions, from cool to very cold, as well as for sports or everyday wear.

Playing with bright colors is probably one of the most blatant temptations facing the designers in 2010 winter season. They offer us so much more than a mere warm and cozy embrace of luxurious fur, but a journey to exotic islands and warmer seasons with a wonderful and majestic splash of daring colors. The trendsetters claim that any self-respecting fashionista should challenge mediocrity and gloomy dreariness of colder season with bright and alluring colored fur.

Knitted stuff is kept aloof in fashion all the time. The point is the knitted garments look differently with unusual texture and functionality. The knitted dresses and cardigans have always been loved for the warmth and coziness, while the knitted jackets sometime back were found comfortable to wear by ladies owing to the incessant creative approach and skillful fingers of our grandmas. Consequently, the handicraft done at leisure time brought to appearance of new trends in fashion like cardigans, blazers and even tunics, all knitted.

As in any area of life where art is applied, fashion interacts with the society and is affected by the changes adopted in it. Fashion, on the whole, reveals the most historical epochs and events. Thus, the XVII century introduced the pretentiousness of royal ensembles from the opulent silk with embroidery and the simplicity of the Puritan attire at the same time.

Wedding arrangement. Amusing fuss for the bride. The wife-to-be is anxious with a thousand of thoughts that fly in her beautiful head, including what jewelry to choose for the event, which music is suitable for the wedding and how to accommodate all the guests. The thousand and one small worries of life and the small details are also important that are significant for grooms. These accessories pleasing the eyes of grooms include beautiful lacy lingerie, nice perfume, the garter and the bridal stockings, surely.

The epoch of '40s of the twenties century turned out to be clearly divided into two parts. The first half of the decade was full of hardships and privation of the war times, while the second half was marked by the real revolution in fashion, to some extent more significant than the revolution done some time back by Coco Chanel.

Knitted fur is known and practiced since '70s when a Canadian designer Paula Lishman introduced the exclusive fur knitting techniques unknown to others. Yet, in the early years of the third millennium the fur fabric seized the hearts of population and became one of the favorite materials for the most reputed fashion houses of the world, offering the luxurious sense of fur for wearing from inside and outside.

Crinoline is the construction made especially to correct the shapes of a woman in compliance with the fashion tendencies. That was fashionable some time back but not now. Today fashion is not requiring, it recommends and advises but not requires. And in present the crinoline is the garment to see as the detail of the wedding or evening gowns, or at the Fashion Week Shows. This is quite uncomfortable garment to prefer for every day considering the rhythm and speed of life which are priority today.