ACTIVITY 1.
What all fashion communicate?
Fashion is one of the ways of non-verbal communication. Fashion communicates a lot about our personality, our motives and our feelings. What we wear and how we wear tells a lot about us. People often dress according to their moods which indicate a lot about how they feel at a given point of time. Furthermore fashion also communicates about our gender, religion, custom and culture. One of the most intriguing purpose fashion serves is to express ourselves, how we wish people to see us. Different speech of fashion are put together to create outfits or certain looks.
Is fashion forceful?
Fashion is forceful to a certain extent but moreover it is impactful. Some people force themselves to abide by certain fashion trend just to not feel out of fashion but that leads to nothing but discomfort. Fashion leaves an impact on people. For examples if you like a celebrity's look or an influencer's look, you would certainly want to dress like that and hopefully would dress up like that but if you do not find that captivating, you would not want to wear it just because it is what a celebrity is wearing. one forced, fashion leads to discomfort. It is because of the impactful nature of fashion that we have a huge amount of influencers doing exceptionally well on social media.
Is fashion powerful?
Fashion is undoubtedly powerful enough to leave an impact on people. If fashion hadn't been powerful, we would not have invested a large amount of time looking for the best dress to wear. It is powerful enough to create a perception about a certain person. Different types of attires create different types of perception for a certain person. For example if you see two different people in an interview out of which one is neatly dressed in formals while the other person is dressed in casuals, your mind would create a perception that the job is very valuable for the person dressed in formals which might not be the case but the way that person dressed left an impact on your mind which clearly says that fashion is powerful.
Fashion has a great impact on country's economy.
India's textile and clothing industries now generate about 5% of gross domestic product and about 15% of industrial output and export earnings. Together they are the country's second-largest employer after agriculture, involving more than 55 million workers.
ACTIVITY 2
When you think of a fashion icon from the past, who is the first person that comes to mind? who have not only made an impact, but also have distinct signature styles that we can still draw inspiration from today.
The Beatles
The Beatles were international stars by early 1964, leading the "British Invasion" of the
United States pop market and breaking numerous sales records. The Beatles are the
bestselling band in history. Not just one, the beatles popularized a lot of trends.
In the early Beatle-mania years, The Beatles would occasionally wear black, and then
later grey, collarless suits. These suits, instead of leather trousers, plaid shirts, and slacks,
became very common for new generation back then.
they debuted the bright-colored style btThey also debuted the bright colouredstyle by wearing pasley shirts,pastel shirts,
suits and floral patterns. Adding to this they
also popularized the style of collarless shirts
and sandals.Ttfloral patterns. Along with their psychedelic style, they popularized the Indian- influenced style of theirs, collarless shirts and sandals.
By the late 1960s, the B
Lady Diana
wedding dress was complete with a 25-foot
train of ivory silk taffeta. It was one of the
most guarded secrets in fashion history,
only to be matched by the hushed privacy
surrounding Kate Middleton's stunning
Alexander McQueen wedding dress.
Cindy Crawford
Cindy Crawford has been a fashion icon since she did MTV's legendary hit 'House of
Style'. She was later in the news for her trend setting looks in denim, tailored jackets and
little black dresses. The shoulder pads were a little bigger, and the hair had noticeably more
mousse, but she is proof that a signature style with just a
few small tweaks can look chic for decades.
Marlene Dietrich
During the time of high fashion, feminine dresses, Marlene Dietrich
cultivated her own style with her androgynous
wardrobe. She loved dressing up glamorously and made fur part of
her uniform. The most famous aspect of Marlene’s style was her love
for menswear. She wore masculine three piece suit to
create distinctly androgynous look and redefine women’s fashion. She
also helped to popularize and make pants acceptable for
women to wear. It was something borrowed and new as well.
Madonna
Madonna
The way that Madonna deployed fashion in the construction of her
identity made it clear that one's appearance and image helps to
produce what one is. It is not just Madonna's bold sense of style that
impacted fashion trends but also the tendency to transform her look
over the time. She introduced the world to a signature look - think
crucifixes, layered necklaces and lace that went on to define the era's
fashion. She also popularized the wedding dress style on her video "
like a virgin".
Bruce Springsteen
Remarkably, over a nearly 40-year period, Springsteen's style never reallyfaltered. Even through the '80s, he stuck to simple classics—jeans, a shirt, and
the occasional statement leather piece.
Nancy Reagan
She was a fashion icon — a first lady known for bringing a sense
of style to the White House that the U.S. hadn't seen since Jackie Reagan
embraced a signature red color in many of her looks, which became known
across the country as "Reagan Red Kennedy. If one colour defined Nancy Reagan ,
it was power red. From red pantsuits to red gowns to red polka dot dresses, she
was all about the colour red.
ACTIVITY 3
1.Fashion stylist
Payal Narang is a fashion stylist with the magazine Shades of woman. she loves to
experiment different attires on herself too.
these are two different looks of her. The first
picture is of an Indian wedding where she is wearing a
saree. In the second picture she is wearing a black and
white short bodycon dress which is
definitely a comfortable day out look.
2.Badminton player
Sania Mirza is an Indian professional tennis player. These are the two
pictures of Sania Mirza in her professional as well as party look. In thr first
picture, she is wearing a sports tshirt wuth a apir of skirt alonwith a cap. In
the other picture she is spotted in blue gown all dressed up for an awards
function.
3.Fashion model
Manushi Chhillar is an Indian model and the winner of the Miss World 2017 pageant. She
she is wearing a tee with a denim jeans making it a very casual look.
ACTIVITY 4
RENAISSANCE PERIOD
During the renaissance period, clothing was more about displaying one's social status.
People were very particular about what to wear. Clothing was very influential. The women
clothing evolved a lot during this era. One such renaissance inspired style was the
Statement sleeves. The trend has visibly come back as it was seen in many fashion shows.
Moreover we ourselves wear tops with different types of sleeves.
PUFF SLEEVS IN RENAISSANCE AND NOW
The Empire period style in its purest form is characterized by the columnar silhouette
without gathers in front, some fullness over the hips. These styles at the beginning of the
19th century were made of a soft, light weight fabric gathered just under the breasts. It
featured a low square neckline, and small, short, puffed sleeves with a low shoulder line.
During the 1920s clothing styles officially entered the modern era of fashion
design . Women began to liberate themselves from constricting and uncomfortable
gowns for the first time. They were open for casual
and more comfortable styles like pants and shorter skirts, low waistlines and revolutionary styles.
At that time flapper dresses came into fashion. The
dresses usually revealed the leg from the kneecap down.
The dresses were shapeless and with no sleeves. The
women used to pair it up with
stockings and cardigan to cover up their arms during
winters. The dresses
were usually made of expensive fabrics like muslin with
sequins or strings sewed on.
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