Essays on Lifestyle

TITLE OF WORK: East meets the west: Influence of the Chinese culture on western fashion and design. 2009 WORDS   East meets the west: Influence of the Chinese culture on western fashion and design.  The exhibition seeks to explore how two cultures, Eastern and Western cultures separated miles apart have merged to influence and...

Fast fashion is a term used regularly to refer to trends in clothing that are changing vastly today. These trends are usually cheap and end up being quickly phased out in a short period of time, only to be replaced by more fancy styles. Fast fashion has greater effect on...

In essence, fashion is a popular style, particularly in lifestyle products, clothing, makeup, footwear, accessories, body and hairstyle. Fashion is a characteristic and frequently constant pattern in the style in which an individual wears. It’s the usual styles in behaviour and the most up to date creations of engineers, designers,...

“‘TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH’ Fashion and Ethnicity in the Vogue Fashion Shoot” is an fashion article written by Sarah Cheang to depict the battle between fashion and ethnicity as depicted in various vogue shoots of captivating photos and the attention vying stories written with exquisite fashion dramatization by well-versed...

Fashion is a practice that individuals use to express identity Introduction Fashion says a lot about individuals and our society than we can give credit to. Fashion exhibits social evolution of humans in different aspects. Through appearance style which is either personal interpretations or resistance to fashion, a person announces who they...

A study in 1977 showed that dress and behaviour are the clearest indications of class position. Nothing has changed to date. However, sociology barely looks into this relationship. The aim of this chapter is to show the role of class in both traditional and present fashion consumption. Part I: Traditional ideas...

Explore the relationship between celebrity, fashion and consumption - past and present - in order to answer: Why do some people dress like celebrities? Contents Introduction                                                                                                                        3 Relationship between Celebrities, Fashion and Consumption                                           3 Conclusion                                                                                                                         8 Bibliography                                                                                                                      9 Introduction Celebrities are individuals who are easily recognizable by people in a specific region or country either mostly because...

Fashion as an Art and Culture Fashion is both an art and a culture. As an art, fashion focuses on using appearance and aesthetic value to bring artistic look and status. Eco believes that clothing uses non-verbal cues to communicate a message to the wearer or the person seeing the garment...

Clothing is considered a nonverbal source of communication.  It provides a plethora of information about the person who is wearing them. All types of clothing may create different impressions. There are three types...

Subculture and Streetstyle, and a Fashion Identity as an Expression of Postmodern Values The concepts of streetstyle and subculture can lead to the development of fashion identity to express postmodern values (McDonough and Braungart, 2010, p. 481). Postmodernism is a term that describes a wide range of change in thinking to...

Baeckeroot Katherine. "Tattoos in the Workplace." UWIRE Text. General OneFile. 3 November, 2013. http://ezproxy.waynecc.edu:2125/apps/doc/A347857819/ITOF?u=gold81941 xid=131fc2f7. Accessed 11 Feb. 2018. Baeckeroot elucidates that the negative stereotypes that continue surround tattoos have a negative impact on employment of a person. The article points out that, while the increase in the prevalence of tattoos...

I strongly believe that fashion is an art which can be interpreted in so many ways. It’s not a surprise that every individual has their own definition of fashion and style, with some people believing that expressing oneself is difficult. It fascinates me that those people choose to express their...