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fashion



I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fashion consultant (=one who advises people on what to wear)
It would be great to have your own fashion consultant.
a fashion designer (=for clothes)
the well-known fashion designer, Giorgio Armani
a haphazard way/manner/fashion
I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way.
coming back into fashion
High heels are coming back into fashion.
fashion conscious
Young girls are always very fashion conscious.
fashion dictates sth
Fashion has been dictating that women should wear black for years now.
fashion forward
fashion house
fashion plate
fashion show
fashion statement
Mobile phones make a big fashion statement.
fashion victim
fashion/computer/women’s etc magazine
a glossy fashion magazine
She’s the editor of a popular women’s magazine.
fitness/dance/fashion etc craze
The jogging craze began in the 1970s.
food/fashion/sports etc maven
A food maven could also be called a gourmet.
in a piecemeal fashion
The buildings have been adapted in a piecemeal fashion.
in a timely manner/fashion (=as quickly as is reasonable in a particular situation)
We aim to settle all valid claims in a timely manner.
in an orderly fashion
The elections were conducted in an orderly fashion.
in the time-honoured fashion
Sharon became involved with music in the time-honoured fashion – through her family.
ladies’ fashion/clothing/shoes etc
ladies’ underwear
roundabout way/fashion
It was a roundabout way of telling us to leave.
shipshape and Bristol fashionBritish English (= shipshape)
slave to fashion
a slave to fashion
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
ADJECTIVE
current
Thus the Lincoln was ready for the current fashion for larger carcasses.
In current pedagogic fashion, behaviourist practices have been largely superseded by cognitive and communicative perspectives on learning.
Contrary to the popular stereotype, they take care to dress smartly, according to current youth fashions.
Others are aimed mainly at a middle-aged market, where comfort and quality are more important than the current fashion.
And, following the current fashion, Informix has also opened a software development centre in Dublin, Ireland.
Eclecticism rules these days, and traditional patterns may be thrown together with all the flair for ill-assortment of current Top-Shop fashions.
What does this really mean, and is the current fashion for quality merely rhetorical gloss or does it have more substance?
dramatic
So a series has been resurrected in the most dramatic fashion.
Louis two weeks ago, the Raiders have lost games in both dramatic and ridiculous fashion.
Then he seized the initiative in a dramatic fashion, just as he had in April 1182.
Fieldwork in the Highlands was resumed in 1926 in a rather dramatic fashion.
In fact, Churchill attempted in October 1951 to refashion Cabinet government in a fairly dramatic fashion by peacetime standards.
The following day opened in dramatic fashion.
Some ant cuckoo females make their presence felt in more dramatic fashion.
Gedge will not slump in such dramatic fashion because of his businesslike constitution.
haphazard
After throwing things around in a very haphazard fashion she finally abandoned her search.
For three decades, water was released from the dam in haphazard fashion, depending on power needs in the Southwest.
This came about in an equally haphazard fashion.
Could one, Peters asked, expect children to learn in the somewhat haphazard fashion that unfettered child-centredness seemed to commend?
Not in a haphazard or whimsical fashion, but as knowledge itself changes.
Over the years, the chalets were added to by their owners in haphazard fashion.
high
Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.
Indeed, in traditional High Church fashion, they were not ashamed to announce their belief in the divine-right nature of bishops.
Fifty years later saw the high fashion of segregating house from village.
Today, theory is in high fashion at Western universities, and varied in scope.
So why remove them in such a dramatic, high-profile fashion?
He placed the emphasis on high street fashion.
We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion, middle-of-the-road revolution, cover-version original pop music.
new
But meanwhile, her new role as fashion supremo is something she can really get her teeth into.
Anyway, has anything really new happened in fashion since the mini-skirt?
Opposite the Cathay, one of the many new fashion emporiums is crammed with shoppers browsing the designer labels.
Until the spring, improbable as ever, brought among its pretty new fashions, the greatest shock yet.
Making waves in London is the predicted new male fashion trend christened the Urban Surf Look - the hot news for spring.
Little is left to chance in designing new athletic fashions.
These scouts need to be aware of new fashions as they happen so we can react immediately.
One reason for the new fashion is that people are weary of downsizing.
orderly
The Gaijin were piling arms in an orderly fashion.
Proceed in an orderly fashion and disregard curbstone advice.
The tables were covered with the velvet Dave had found and the exhibits laid out in an orderly fashion.
Engrams are not filed in the orderly fashion man-aged by a cleared standard bank.
Journalism is supposed to present facts in an accurate and orderly fashion.
I arrange my papers in an orderly fashion on my driftwood desk and sharpen my pencils, as I always do.
piecemeal
The changes in the state sector before the 1980s have occurred in a relatively piecemeal fashion.
To his disappointments it developed in a piecemeal fashion.
The charges against Sutyagin can, therefore, be established only in piecemeal fashion.
It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion.
They may conceive of it in piecemeal fashion, recognising particular boundaries as and when it is unavoidably necessary to do so.
The process of drainage and enclosure was probably occurring in a piecemeal fashion all through the late Saxon period.
The cuckoo's adaptations were simply too perfect to have evolved bit by bit, in piecemeal fashion.
similar
It would appear that one, two, four and six are marked in a basically similar fashion.
Unfortunately, when you write, your thoughts bounce around the page in a similar fashion.
And if everyone else is rebelling in a similar fashion, we might get some decent hot hatchbacks back into circulation.
So... what if a computer were built to operate in a similar fashion?
In a similar fashion, changes in opportunities reflect the development of the social career.
Self-managed teams operate in a similar fashion to work-unit teams, but with employees assuming greatly expanded responsibilities.
Within this mass, the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang.
The other networks built their news departments of global depth and experience in a similar fashion.
spectacular
Elsewhere, equities boiled over in spectacular fashion.
Especially strong was Marin County, where every single zip code bounced back, sometimes in spectacular fashion.
A serious error could easily result in every semi-conductor in the project being destroyed, possibly in spectacular fashion.
They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out, which it did in spectacular fashion.
Theatres specialise for children, ready to tell us tales, ancient and modern, in spectacular fashion.
West ham had a couple of good shots on goal one of which Beaney tipped over the bar in spectacular fashion.
It's a choice between you and them, either they die or Turry explodes in a spectacular fashion.
timely
I want those results in a timely fashion!
true
In true Celtic fashion, physical strength and absence of blemish would be the qualification of a king.
In true coevolutionary fashion, coevolution breeds coevolution.
Still, in true Dwarf fashion, they were not about to admit to a mistake.
And so, in true Arien fashion, she had decided to take the bull by the horns.
typical
At brisk cornering speeds the Calibra behaves in typical front-drive fashion.
In typical fashion, the federal government feels that it must do something.
In typical fashion Stirling decided on a bluff which had often helped him before.
In typical Atlanta fashion, it was razed in 1977 to make room for the new Atlanta-Fulton Public Library.
He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before.
In typical fashion, Hostetler let Dudley know.
He led his female into a cave where they spawned nose to tail in typical mouthbrooder fashion.
But then in typical Bloodhut fashion, a goofy gag succeeds.
NOUN
accessory
For anything up to £500, this place can fix you up with a fashion accessory in a class of its own.
It could be the mandatory audio fashion accessory of the summer.
This enables me to buy the latest fashion accessories and clothes without relying on my parents.
Electronic mail has become so hip it's almost a fashion accessory.
Children are not fashion accessories that can be pushed aside.
But Atari don't like their machine to be seen as a fashion accessory.
Super-hip fashion accessory or just a way of keeping the kids out of the amusement arcades?
This subtle shift has a great deal to do with the current fashion accessory of an eligible husband rather than an eligible boss.
business
She will give an hour of fashion fun, talking and demonstrating her hat hire service and nearly-new designer fashion business.
Resident movie stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Cher and Madonna also have spurred a boomlet in the entertainment and fashion businesses.
He works in the fashion business and has lived with his girlfriend for the past six years.
designer
There was one girl who longed, seemingly in an unrealistic way, to become a fashion designer.
Since then, fashion designers have learned not to dictate a length.
Showbiz characters rubbed shoulders with politicians, famous food and wine writers, and fashion designers.
They say they've enjoyed the transition from farmer to fashion designer.
Early successes in the drug trade mean that Harry can underwrite Marion's attempts to become a fashion designer.
Now wait a minute - it wouldn't be that young fashion designer, would it?
editor
Toning Whoever heard of any of them being groomed by a fashion editor and strapped into toning pinks for a photo call?
Egged on by some publicity cooked up by the fashion editor, she and her sister Carole got a book contract.
Nicholas Knightly was the name that a lot of fashion editors were instead catching up with.
Then there were the fashion editors that could have described her chemise frock while she did the shooting.
A leading fashion editor suggests that in fact we have too many, rather than too few, clothes.
The trip to Milan would otherwise have undoubtedly fallen to her, as the nominal fashion editor.
Model Orla feigns sleep and eve fashion editor Sarah Newton looks on.
house
He met Yves Saint Laurent, then at Dior, and helped him found his own fashion house.
In the end President Mitterrand chose his friend Pierre Berge, head of a fashion house, to sort out the mess.
Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses.
There is no difference for me between working in a fashion house and working in an opera.
She runs a fashion house now.
industry
The pop music and fashion industries were geared specifically towards the young and magazines flourished in order to promote these trends.
The suggestions also revealed a lot about the fashion industry and its relationship with the first lady.
A village-based fabric weaving and dyeing business was quite unused to the sudden whims and vagaries of the capitalist fashion industry.
The drug chic controversy, though, has brought forth an odd mixture of indignation and acknowledgment from the fashion industry.
But now the relationship is supposedly reversed, with the fashion industry kowtowing to consumers.
The fashion industry is now fighting Aids with everything it has got.
magazine
She was twenty-eight years of age with the kind of breathtaking allure normally associated with the cover of a glossy fashion magazine.
I would cut out the people in the fashion magazines and use them as though I was creating a play.
She looked as if she could be on the cover of a fashion magazine.
Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine.
She wasn't a girl at all, in any sense that the fashion magazines would recognize.
It specialises in giving everyday people a glamorous look that would do the cover of any top fashion magazine proud.
I look at fashion magazines more than I look at news magazines.
Andrew Logan's party, for instance, which got us our first press - a mention in an upmarket society fashion magazine.
model
He got hitched fifteen years ago to some fashion model.
He looks like a fashion model, a clubland vamp or the boy next door.
Yet out of uniform she looked like a fashion model.
Film stars and fashion models became more slender because their angles photographed better on screen and in magazines.
Although she may have many other fine qualities, she is clearly not an international fashion model.
Do women really want to look like fashion models?
Masha, 20, is training to be a fashion model in St Petersburg.
Two self-employed fashion models, both in their early 20s, also are charged.
photographer
Later he worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue, snapping a young Brigitte Bardot amongst others.
He finds a job as assistant to a famous fashion photographer, the amusingly named Vesuvi.
photography
Craik also draws our attention to the increasing eroticism of 1970s and 1980s fashion photography.
And in turn, their fashion photography somehow seems elevated, more substantial because it was created by bona fide artistes.
To me it was like an unreality, like fashion photography.
Wildman pioneered advertising and fashion photography in Britain, specifically outdoor location work, as well as creating natural indoor lighting.
His range is broader than the other histories, and includes fashion photography and advertising within its compass.
Before 1989, Benetton's images still seemed to relate to the genre of studio fashion photography.
Therefore, it is easy to see how some photographers have moved between areas of anthropological and fashion photography.
show
To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference.
Next came a fashion show of ladies' hats designed by Billie Singleton of Topeka.
Any minute she could be gliding down a runway at a Saks fashion show.
All the tee-shirts were modelled by the pupils during the school's fashion show organised by the Parent Teachers Association.
After all, Oscar night is the biggest fashion show in the world.
She trips off to view the fashion show.
statement
Reporting from the international catwalks, Meredith Etherington-Smith has defined and simplified this season's fashion statements, beginning on page 261.
Tonight, you might take the shaved head as a fashion statement.
The textiles from Qawrighul are more than a fashion statement.
The Minipod is more than a fashion statement.
No fashion statements with the Mary Chain.
Now it was to become a fashion statement for the world.
But one man stands alone, and he's making his own fashion statement.
Even Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons, high priestess of the black fashion statement, is designing in color.
victim
I don't want to be a fashion victim.
Our intention was to dress a model for illustrative purposes, not to create fashion victims.
Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.
Aristos, being of course a complete media and fashion victim, had heard of it and ordered champagne.
Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.
There are a few male fashion victims; all women are victims of fashion.
It wasn't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers, it was about improving the real world.
world
Having conquered the fashion world, she is now being courted by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks film company.
Dana wouldn't give up the chance to shine in front of all the heads of the fashion world.
His existence had been particularly dull, holding down brief part-time work selling clothes in Manchester's underground fashion world.
But things change quickly in the fashion world.
Another group overlooked by the fashion world are petite women.
And Sandra has become a style icon, for the fashion world particularly.
He liked the fashion world and its reliance on youth.
His first collection took the fashion world by storm, breathing new life into the stuffy world of Parisian hautecouture.
VERB
follow
By going shopping Mr Azcárraga has followed fashion.
Studies of language development, however, have followed different swings of fashion.
And, following the current fashion, Informix has also opened a software development centre in Dublin, Ireland.
If it does not follow that fashion, many observers fear the country will not sustain its usual calm.
Must it follow fashion or be above it?
Adults follow fashion in clothes and social habits as assiduously as their children.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
be the height of fashion/stupidity/luxury etc
All these artists were the height of fashion in the middle years of the 19C.
The stunning luminous display and thickly padded, genuine leather wristband are the height of fashion in any setting.
doggy style/fashion
ethnic cooking/fashion/design etc
fashion/style victim
Aristos, being of course a complete media and fashion victim, had heard of it and ordered champagne.
Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.
I don't want to be a fashion victim.
It wasn't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers, it was about improving the real world.
Our intention was to dress a model for illustrative purposes, not to create fashion victims.
Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.
There are a few male fashion victims; all women are victims of fashion.
in the popularity/fashion etc stakes
Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.
They are running neck-and-neck in the popularity stakes.
parrot fashion
Dealers would repeat this parrot fashion in the same optimistic note that the director had used on them.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a fashion designer
a fashion show
changing fashions in popular music
Diane is the assistant fashion editor at "Vogue."
He's one of the best-known designers in the world of fashion.
I always find it hard to keep up with the latest fashions.
Platform sandals are this summer's fashion.
This year's men's fashions are brighter and more casual than ever before.
Who started this fashion for wearing old army clothes?
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
Albeit in an oblique fashion, Soviet Socialist Realism thus influenced the development of western high art.
As women are liberated from some of the meaner dictates of dress, men are losing a certain brand of fashion freedom.
Claire Selman selects fashion for action Skiing poses exceptionally extreme demands on clothing.
Resident movie stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Cher and Madonna also have spurred a boomlet in the entertainment and fashion businesses.
She wears anachronistic styles as though they were the latest fashion, with no hint of nostalgia.
Then he seized the initiative in a dramatic fashion, just as he had in April 1182.
They say commuting will be out of fashion - sounds great to me.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
Our attitudes to politics are fashioned by the media.
The man had fashioned a turban from a strip of torn cloth.
Two million years ago our ancestors began to fashion stone tools.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
All three combined to fashion an equaliser, of course.
Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item, so an order would have gone out to a local plumber.
Taxes and the budget are obvious topics as Republicans fashion an economic agenda for the national convention.
To fashion patterns of light into such weapons.
When the rains came, they huddled under umbrellas and makeshift tents and donned ponchos or raincoats fashioned from plastic garbage bags.

fashion

I. fashion1 S3 W2 /ˈfæʃən/ noun
[Word Family: verb: fashion; noun: fashion; adverb: fashionably ≠ UNFASHIONABLY; adjective: fashionable ≠ unfashionable]
[date : 1300-1400; Language : Old French; Origin : façon, from Latin factio 'act of making', from facere 'to do, make']
1. [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
something that is popular or thought to be good at a particular time
fashion for
  ▪ the fashion for ‘discovery methods’ of learning
fashion in
  ▪ The emerging science of photography was already changing fashions in art.
  ▪ Eastern religions used to be the fashion in the 60s.
  ▪ His ideas are coming back into fashion (=they are becoming popular again).
  ▪ Their music will never go out of fashion (=stop being fashionable).
  ▪ Self-help books are all the fashion (=they are very fashionable).

2. [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]
a style of clothes, hair etc that is popular at a particular time:
  ▪ Young people are very concerned with fashion.
  ▪ Hats like that just aren’t the fashion.

3. [UNCOUNTABLE]
the business or study of making and selling clothes, shoes etc in new and changing styles:
  ▪ magazines about fashion and beauty
  ▪ the London College of Fashion

4. in a ... fashion
in a particular way:
  ▪ Please leave the building in an orderly fashion.
  ▪ Perhaps they could sit down and discuss things in a civilised fashion.
  ▪ She will be working out her problems in her own fashion (=in the way that she usually does this).

5. after a fashion
not very much, not very well, or not very effectively:
  ▪ ‘Can you speak Russian?’ ‘After a fashion.’

6. after the fashion of somebody
in a style that is typical of a particular person:
  ▪ Her early work is very much after the fashion of Picasso and Braque.

7. like it’s going out of fashion
informal use this to emphasize that someone does something a lot or uses a lot of something:
  ▪ Danny’s been spending money like it’s going out of fashion.
parrot fashion at parrot1(2)
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COLLOCATIONS
phrases
be in fashion
  ▪ Belted jackets are in fashion this winter.
be out of fashion
  ▪ Flared trousers were out of fashion in the 1980s.
go out of fashion (=stop being fashionable)
  ▪ Long evening dresses are going out of fashion.
come back into fashion (=become fashionable again)
  ▪ Short skirts are coming back into fashion this year.
be the height of fashion (=be very fashionable)
  ▪ With her short dress and high boots she was the height of fashion.
keep up with fashion (=make sure that you know about the most recent fashions)
  ▪ Lucy likes to keep up with the latest fashions.
fashion-conscious (=very interested in the latest fashions, and always wanting to wear fashionable clothes)
  ▪ Fashion-conscious people can’t get enough of these new designs.
adjectives
the latest fashion
  ▪ They sell all the latest fashions.
men’s/women’s fashions
  ▪ Men’s fashions have not changed much in 50 years.
fashion + NOUN
the fashion industry
  ▪ London is the centre of the British fashion industry.
the fashion world
  ▪ Small women are often overlooked by the fashion world.
a fashion show
  ▪ Calvin Klein’s fashion show featured suits and sportswear.
a fashion model
  ▪ Fashion models are usually very tall.
a fashion designer
  ▪ Her favourite fashion designers include Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre.
fashion design
  ▪ He went to St Martin’s School of Art to study fashion design.
a fashion house (=a company that produces new and expensive styles of clothes)
  ▪ fashion houses such as Armani and Hugo Boss
a fashion magazine
  ▪ She’s the editor of a leading fashion magazine.
fashion photography
  ▪ a book of Lang’s fashion photography
a fashion photographer
  ▪ Later he worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue.
a fashion shoot (=an occasion when photographs are taken of fashion models)
  ▪ She was asked to star with top model Naomi Campbell in a fashion shoot.
a fashion shop
  ▪ We walked around Milan’s famous fashion shops.
COMMON ERRORS
► Do not say 'the last fashion'. Say the latest fashion.
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THESAURUS
fashion noun [UNCOUNTABLE AND COUNTABLE]a style of clothes, hair, behaviour etc that is fashionable. Fashion is also used as an uncountable noun, when talking about all of these styles in general :
  ▪ the latest fashions from Donna Karan
  ▪ changing fashions in popular music
  ▪ I'm not interested in fashion.
vogue noun [SINGULAR,UNCOUNTABLE]if there is a vogue for something, or it is in vogue, it is fashionable. Vogue sounds more formal and typical of the language that more educated speakers use than fashion :
  ▪ the current vogue for realistic animated films
  ▪ There was a vogue for cream furniture in the 1920s.
  ▪ His pictures are very much in vogue these days.
trend noun [COUNTABLE]a way of doing something or a way of thinking that is becoming fashionable or popular :
  ▪ The magazine focuses on the latest trends in contemporary design.
  ▪ The trend is for people to wait longer to marry and have children.
craze/fad noun [COUNTABLE] informal a fashion, activity, type of music etc that suddenly becomes very popular, but only remains popular for a short time – often used about things that you think are rather silly :
  ▪ a new fitness craze
  ▪ the current fad for bare white walls and uncomfortable-looking metal furniture
  ▪ I'm sure it's just a passing fad (=something that will soon stop being fashionable).
  ▪ fad diets
something is all the rage formal used when saying that something is very popular and fashionable for a short time :
  ▪ The game was all the rage at her school.

II. fashion2 verb [TRANSITIVE]
[Word Family: verb: fashion; noun: fashion; adverb: fashionably ≠ UNFASHIONABLY; adjective: fashionable ≠ unfashionable]
1. to shape or make something, using your hands or only a few tools
fashion something from something
  ▪ He fashioned a box from a few old pieces of wood.
fashion something into something
  ▪ Jamie could take a piece of wood and fashion it into a wonderful work of art.

2. [USUALLY PASSIVE]
to influence and form someone’s ideas and opinions:
  ▪ We are all unique human beings, fashioned by life experiences.

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