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