This document discusses various topics related to fashion, including:
1) Types of fashion such as clothing fashion, footwear fashion, and hairstyle fashion. It outlines different categories of clothing fashion like haute couture and ready-to-wear.
2) Fashion trends and influences, noting political, technological, and social influences on shifting trends.
3) Depictions of African fashion, highlighting traditional fabrics, jewelry designs inspired by nature, and common hairstyles featuring afro-textured hair.
4. Introduction
French fashion designer COCO Charnel once said :
« Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only,
fashion is in the sky, in the street fashion has to do with
ideas the way live what is hapening. »
What are differents types of fashion ?
What influences fashion ?
Is there any fashion in Africa ?
5. Types of fashion
Clothing fashion
France – considered the center of fashion for almost
400 years from 1600s into the 1900s. Especially in Paris.
In the 1600s, French royalty and wealthy landowners
employed their own dressmakers and tailors.
Haute Couture - French word meaning high fashion.
It means one-of-a-kind. These include designers'
original designs.
Ready to wear (Prêt-à-Porter) - Term used to describe
mass produced garments. These include designers'
originals manufactured to a certain number for
department stores and offered at lower prices
6. Types of fashion
Clothing fashion
Today Fashion countries :
Italy : Milan
France : Paris
Britainn : London
USA : New York
Japan : Tokyo
Fashion today can be categorize as follow
Fad : is a fashion that stays indefinitely.
Classic : is a fashion that die quickly and whose
greatest appeal is as novelty.
Style : A characteristic of dress that exists independent of
fashion .
7. Types of fashion
Clothing fashion
Fashion today can be categorize as follow
Design : Refers to a specific version of a style .
Trends : The movement of a fashion into and through
the marketplace, How long a fashion remains popular.
8. Types of fashion
Footware fashion
Footwear refers to garments worn on the feet, which originally serves to purpose
of protection against adversities of the environment, usually regarding ground
textures and temperature
footwear can also be used for fashion and adornment as well as to indicate
the status or rank of the person within a social structure.
9. Types of fashion
Hairstyle fashion
A hairstyle, hairdo, or haircut refers to the styling of
hair, usually on the human scalp.
The fashioning of hair can be considered an aspect of
personal grooming although practical, cultural, and
popular considerations also influence some hairstyles
10. Fashion trend
Political influence
Political culture plays a critical role in the fashion industry.
President Obama red tie
Not only did political events make a huge impact on fashion trends but also the political figure
played a critical role in forecasting the fashion trend.
In the 1960s, the fashion trend was full of
fluorescent colors, prints patterns, bell-bottom
jeans, fringed vests, and skirt became a
protest outfit of the 1960s
11. Fashion trend
Technology influence
Technology plays a large role in most aspects of today's society.
Technological influences are growing more apparent in the fashion
industry. Advances and new developments are shaping and
creating current and future trends.
Developments such as wearable
technology have become an important
trend in fashion and will continue with
advances such as clothing constructed
with solar panels that charge devices
and smart fabrics that enhance wearer
comfort by changing color or texture
based on environmental changes
12. Fashion trend
Social influence
Fashion trend goes beyond the aesthetic values, it emerges as an expressive tool for
designers to deliver their message about the society.
With the influence of social media, celebrities
and bloggers, their voice are easily being
heard and have impact on fashion and trend at
any time. Fashion and music are inseparable
13. Depict of African Fashion
African cloth Fashion
Mostly made of conton textile, the fabrics are designed with flowers and worm colors.
14. Depict of African Fashion
African jewelries Fashion
Made up of bracelets and necklaces some are crafted mainly with frabric and cords
others with wood, cuper, bronze, gold just to name a fiew.
For these jewelries the design is always inpired by the nature ( trees , flowers, animals...)
15. Depict of African Fashion
African hairstyle Fashion
Afro-textured hair is the natural hair texture of certain
populations in Africa, the African diaspora, Oceania and
Asia. Each strand of this hair type grows in a tiny, spring-
like helix shape
The overall effect is such that, compared to straight,
wavy or curly hair,[1] afro-textured hair appears denser.