Fashion Week 2009

History Of Clothing And Textiles ... Clothing and textiles have been important in human history and reflects the materials available to a civilization as well as the technologies that it has mastered. The social significance of the finished product reflects their culture...

1600–1650 In Fashion ... Regional variations in fashionable clothing that arose in the fifteenth century became more pronounced in the sixteenth. In particular, the clothing of the Low Countries, German states, and Scandinavia developed in a different direction than that of England, France, and Italy, although all absorbed the sobering and formal influence of Spanish dress after the mid-1520s...

Hairdresser ... Early twentieth century Throughout the early 20th century, practically all high fashion originated in Paris and to a lesser extent London... At this time in fashion history the division between haute couture and ready-to-wear was not sharply defined...

English Medieval Clothing ... The pardalide (made of a leopard skin) was traditionally used as the clothing for priests. Elements of Egyptian clothing In ancient Egypt, linen was by far the most common textile...

1100–1200 In Fashion ... From this century onwards Western fashion changes at a pace quite unknown to other civilizations, whether ancient or contemporary... In most other cultures only major political changes, such as the Muslim conquest of India, produced radical changes in clothing, and in China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire fashion changed only slightly over periods of several centuries... The French court during the minority and illness of Charles VI, filled with ambitious princes with a taste for luxury, was a fountain of innovation in fashion...

1550–1600 In Fashion ... Hair fashion of the period suggested that wealthy women wear large, complex and heavily adorned hairstyles, which would be maintained by their personal maids and other people, who would spend hours dressing the woman's hair...

1920s In Fashion ... Some of the varieties you can find in swimwear are the following: Bikini -- This once-shocking is the granddaddy of fashion swimwear...

Fashion ... The beginnings of the habit in Europe of continual and increasingly rapid change in clothing styles can be fairly reliably dated to the middle of the 14th century, to which historians including James Laver and Fernand Braudel date the start of Western fashion in clothing... Art historians are therefore able to use fashion in dating images with increasing confidence and precision, often within five years in the case of 15th century images... Initially changes in fashion led to a fragmentation of what had previously been very similar styles of dressing across the upper classes of Europe, and the development of distinctive national styles...

1500–1550 In Fashion ... The basic garments for women consisted of the smock, hose, kirtle, gown, surcoat, girdle, cape, hood, and bonnet. Each piece had designated colours and fabrics, for example “Materials used in the middle ages were woolen cloth, fur, linen, cambric, silk, and the cloth of silver or gold…the richer Middle Age women would wear more expensive materials such as silk, or linen”...

History Of Western Fashion ... The bliaut A new French fashion for both men and women was the bliaut or bliaud, a long outer tunic with full skirts from the hip and sleeves that fitted tightly to the elbow and then flared into a trumpet shape...

1650–1700 In Fashion ... This allowed the Spanish people to expand a number elements from their daily lives, especially fashion... Spain introduced many new fashion trends, including new fabrics such as lace, and embroidered and jewelled fabrics...

Ancient Egyptian Fashion ... Womenswear Clothing fashions changed with women's changing roles in society, particularly with the idea of new fashion... Although society matrons of a certain age continued to wear conservative dresses, the sportswear worn by forward-looking and younger women became the greatest change in post-war fashion...

Red Hair ... The silhouette, which was essentially close to the body with tight sleeves and a low, pointed waist to around 1615, gradually softened and broadened. Sleeves became very full, and in the 1620s and 1630s were often paned or slashed to show the voluminous sleeves of the shirt or chemise beneath...

1300–1400 In Fashion ... General trends Dominance of the Burgundian court With England and France mired in the Hundred Years War and its aftermath and then the English Wars of the Roses through most of the century, European fashion north of the Alps was dominated by the glittering court of the Duchy of Burgundy, especially under the fashion-conscious power-broker Philip the Good (ruled 1419–1469)...

1400–1500 In Fashion ... Spanish court fashion remained out of step with the fashions that arose in France and England, and prosperous Holland also retained its own modest fashions, especially in headdress and hairstyles, as it had retained the ruff in the previous period... Romantic negligence A daring new fashion arose for having one's portrait painted in undress, wearing a loosely fastened gown called a nightgown over a voluminous chemise, with tousled curls... The mantua-and-stomacher resulted in a high, square neckline in contrast to the broad, off-the-shoulder neckline previously in fashion...

1200–1300 In Fashion ... Red hair varies from a deep burgundy through burnt orange to bright copper. It is characterized by high levels of the reddish pigment pheomelanin and relatively low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin...