n. 25B6; noun
the fashion for tight clothes : VOGUE, trend, craze, rage, mania, fad; style, look; tendency, convention, custom, practice; informal thing.
the world of fashion : CLOTHES, clothing design, couture; informal the rag trade. See list.
it needs to be run in a sensible fashion : MANNER, way, method, mode, style; system, approach.
25B6; verb the model was fashioned from lead : CONSTRUCT, build, make, manufacture, fabricate, contrive; cast, shape, form, mould, sculpt; forge, hew.
25A0; after a fashion TO A CERTAIN EXTENT, in a way, somehow (or other), in a manner of speaking, in its way.
25A0; in fashion FASHIONABLE, in vogue, up to date, up to the minute, all the rage, chic, à la mode; informal trendy, with it, cool, in, the in thing, hot, big, hip, happening, now, sharp, groovy; N. Amer. tony, fly; Brit. informal, dated all the go.
25A0; out of fashion UNFASHIONABLE, dated, old-fashioned, out of date, outdated, outmoded, behind the times; unstylish, unpopular, passé, démodé; informal old hat, out, square, out of the ark.
Fashion Designers
Amies, Hardy (English) Kenzo (Japanese)
Armani, Giorgio (Italian) Klein, Anne (American)
Azagury, Jacques (Moroccan) Klein, Calvin (American)
Balenciaga, Cristóbal (Spanish) Lacroix, Christian (French)
Balmain, Pierre (French) Lagerfeld, Karl-Otto (German)
Beene, Geoffrey (American) Lang, Helmut (Austrian)
Blass, Bill (American) Lanvin, Jeanne (French)
Bohan, Marc (French) Laroche, Guy (French)
Cacharel, Jean (French) Lauren, Ralph (American)
Capellino, Ally (English) Mainbocher (American)
Cardin, Pierre (French) McQueen, Alexander (English)
Cerruti, Nino (Italian) Missoni, Ottavio (Italian, b. in Yugoslavia)
Chanel, Coco (French) Miyake, Issey (Japanese)
Charles, Caroline (English) Mizrahi, Isaac (American)
Clark, Ossie (English) Montana, Claude (French)
Conran, Jasper (English) Moschino, Franco (Italian)
Costelloe, Paul (Irish) Mugler, Thierry (French)
Courrèges, André (French) Muir, Jean (English)
De la Renta, Oscar (Dominican) Oldfield, Bruce (English)
Dior, Christian (French) Ozbek, Rifat (Turkish)
Erté (French) Patou, Jean (French)
Ferré, Gianfranco (Italian) Pucci, Emilio (Italian)
Fiorucci, Elio (Italian) Quant, Mary (English)
Fortuny, Mariano (Spanish) Reger, Janet (English)
Freud, Bella (English) Rhodes, Zandra (English)
Galliano, John (English) Rykiel, Sonia (French)
Gaultier, Jean-Paul (French) Saint-Laurent, Yves (French)
Givenchy, Hubert de (French) Schiaparelli, Elsa (French, b. in Italy)
Halston (American) Smith, Paul (English)
Hamnett, Katharine (English) Ungaro, Emmanuel (French)
Hartnell, Norman (English) Valentino (Italian)
Hechter, Daniel (French) Versace, Gianni (Italian)
Jackson, Betty (English) Westwood, Vivienne (English)
Karan, Donna (American) Yamamoto, Yohji (Japanese)