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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 ▪ In current pedagogic fashion, behaviourist practices have been largely superseded by cognitive and communicative perspectives on learning.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. fash‧ion1 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) • • • 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. • • • 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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