fashion1 nounfashion2 verb
fashionfash‧ion1 /ˈfæʃən/ ●●● S3 W2 noun 
WORD ORIGINfashion1
Origin:
1300-1400 Old French façon, from Latin factio ‘act of making’, from facere ‘to do, make’EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- a fashion designer
- a fashion show
- changing fashions in popular music
- Diane is the assistant fashion editor at "Vogue."
- He's one of the best-known designers in the world of fashion.
- I always find it hard to keep up with the latest fashions.
- Platform sandals are this summer's fashion.
- This year's men's fashions are brighter and more casual than ever before.
- Who started this fashion for wearing old army clothes?
- Albeit in an oblique fashion, Soviet Socialist Realism thus influenced the development of western high art.
- As women are liberated from some of the meaner dictates of dress, men are losing a certain brand of fashion freedom.
- Claire Selman selects fashion for action Skiing poses exceptionally extreme demands on clothing.
- Resident movie stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Cher and Madonna also have spurred a boomlet in the entertainment and fashion businesses.
- She wears anachronistic styles as though they were the latest fashion, with no hint of nostalgia.
- Then he seized the initiative in a dramatic fashion, just as he had in April 1182.
- They say commuting will be out of fashion - sounds great to me.
THESAURUS
noun [countable, uncountable] a style of clothes, hair, behaviour etc that is fashionable. Fashion is also used as an uncountable noun, when talking about all of these styles in general: · the latest fashions from Donna Karan· changing fashions in popular music· I’m not interested in fashion.
noun [singular, uncountable] if there is a vogue forsomething, or it is in vogue, it is fashionable. Vogue sounds more formal and typical of the language that more educated speakers use than fashion: · the current vogue for realistic animated films· There was a vogue for cream furniture in the 1920s.· His pictures are very much in vogue these days.
noun [countable] a way of doing something or a way of thinking that is becoming fashionable or popular: · The magazine focuses on the latest trends in contemporary design.· The trend is for people to wait longer to marry and have children.
noun [countable] informal a fashion, activity, type of music etc that suddenly becomes very popular, but only remains popular for a short time – often used about things that you think are rather silly: · a new fitness craze· the current fad for bare white walls and uncomfortable-looking metal furniture· I’m sure it’s just a passing fad (=something that will soon stop being fashionable).· fad diets
formal used when saying that something is very popular and fashionable for a short time: · The game was all the rage at her school.
Longman Language Activatorthe business of making and selling fashionable clothes · He's one of the best-known designers in the world of fashion.· a fashion designer· a fashion show
fashionable activity, product, style etc a style of clothes, hair, behaviour etc that is fashionable: latest fashion (=the newest styles of clothes): · I always find it hard to keep up with the latest fashions.fashion in clothes/music etc: · changing fashions in popular musicfashion for doing something: · Who started this fashion for wearing old army clothes?
a way of doing something or a way of thinking that is becoming fashionable: · A lot of the students here don't think for themselves, they just follow the latest trends.trend in: · Today we'll be examining the latest trends in kitchen design
a fashion, activity, type of music etc that suddenly becomes very popular, but only remains popular for a short time: · A new fitness craze from Australia is rapidly catching on.· To no one's surprise, the macarena proved to be a short-lived fad.
the most fashionable and newest thing to do, wear, or have: · The latest thing is to wear only white clothes.· No matter how expensive, he always has to do the latest thing.the latest thing in: · I can remember when eight-track tapes were the latest thing in music.
a style of music, clothes, art etc that is fashionable with a particular group of people: · People's fondness for wearing black and other dark colours was a vogue I never really liked.· a vogue for the paintings of Claude Lorraine
to be fashionable if clothes, music, places, or activities are in fashion , they are fashionable and popular with many people at the present time: · Latin music is very much in fashion.· Surprisingly, flared trousers are in fashion again.· Country cottage furniture has been in fashion for a long time now.
to be fashionable: · I thought it looked ugly, but Iris said white suits were the fashion so I tried it on.be the fashion among somebody: · Wearing coats hanging off one shoulder is the fashion among schoolchildren at the moment.
informal to be the most recent and most popular fashion now: · When I was growing up, the video game "Pong" was the latest thing.· I know cigars are the in thing, but you'll never see me smoke one.be the latest thing in something: · Herbert's house looks like a factory , but it's the latest thing in modern architecture.be the in thing to do: · Having a holiday in Ibiza seems to be the in thing to do at the moment.
informal to be fashionable at the present time: · Long skirts are in at the moment.
if something, especially an activity, is all the rage , it is very fashionable, and popular with a lot of people, especially for a short time: · Before the war, ragtime was all the rage in the dancehalls.· Buying a cabin in the mountains may be all the rage at the moment, but is it really a sound investment?
if something, especially a style of music, decoration, art etc, is in vogue , it is fashionable at that time with a particular group of people: · Do you remember when New Wave music was in vogue?· His photographs, stark and sometimes shocking, are very much in vogue with young intellectuals.
ways of saying that something becomes fashionable · When did baseball caps come into fashion?· When mini-skirts first came into fashion, women said they'd never wear them.come back into fashion · Short haircuts for men went out for a time, and then they came back into fashion.
to become fashionable, especially for a short period of time: · Skateboarding first came in during the early 1980s.· New fashions seem to come in and go out again much more quickly these days.
to become fashionable and popular again, after having been unfashionable for a long period of time: · Who'd have thought platform soles would ever make a comeback?· Games like "Ludo" and "Snakes and Ladders" are really making a comeback.
not fashionable no longer fashionable - use this especially about clothes and music: · It seems like all the clothes I buy are out of fashion by the time I wear them.go/fall out of fashion: · Rock'n'Roll began in the fifties and has never really gone out of fashion.
especially British to stop being fashionable: · Jogging went out when it was found to be harmful for the joints.· I can't believe you're wearing those shoes -- they went out years ago!
not fashionable - use this especially about people's ideas, beliefs, and way of life: · She lives in an unfashionable part of West London.· Socialism became unfashionable after the collapse of the Berlin Wall.
spoken informal not fashionable, interesting, or attractive - used especially by young people: · a really uncool place for a holidayit's uncool to do something: · Nowadays it's considered very uncool to wear fur.
to gradually become unfashionable, and be replaced with more modern styles, methods, ideas etc: · The trouble with high fashion clothes is that they date very quickly.· Certain styles of music will never date, and will always be popular.
done in a particular way · She was looking at me in a very strange way.· The wedding ceremony was conducted in quite a formal manner.
formal if you do something in a particular fashion , you do it in a particular way: · There's no reason why we can't behave in a civilized fashion even though we're getting divorced.
: with enthusiasm/care/envy/delight etc enthusiastically, carefully etc: · A sign warned motorists to drive with care.· He has borne his illness with great courage.· They set about tackling the problem with a great deal of enthusiasm.· "My daughter's been selected for the Olympic team," she said, with understandable pride.
in a particular way: like this/that: · You mustn't talk to people like that - it's very rude.· They were all waving their arms around, like this.like somebody (=in the same way as someone): · He stood bolt upright, like a soldier.· He moves and talks just like his father.
done or made in a way that is typical of a place, group of people etc - use this after another noun or adjective: · Although he was educated in India, he went to an English-style boarding school.· They live in a beautiful little country-style house on the edge of town.· He wore his gun at the hip, cowboy-style.
if something is done along particular lines , it is done in a way that is similar to the way you have mentioned: along socialist/military/institutional etc lines: · The school was run along almost military lines.along the same/similar lines: · We must have been thinking along the same lines, because we both said together, "Let's get out of here!"
in a way that seems to show that something has happened, something is true etc, even though this might not always be what has happened, what is true etc: · Dreen looked as if he'd seen a ghost.· She moved her legs slowly, as though in pain.
formal in a particular way - used in literature: · The affair had been conducted with an air of mystery which he disliked.· Lila came out into the yard with an air of happy confidence.
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COLLOCATIONS FROM THE ENTRYphrases
High heels are coming back into fashion. The jogging craze began in the 1970s. I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way. ladies’ underwear a glossy fashion magazine She’s the editor of a popular women’s magazine. A food maven could also be called a gourmet. The elections were conducted in an orderly fashion. The buildings have been adapted in a piecemeal fashion. It was a roundabout way of telling us to leave. a slave to fashion Sharon became involved with music in the time-honoured fashion – through her family.
· Belted jackets are in fashion this winter.
· Flared trousers were out of fashion in the 1980s.
(=stop being fashionable)· Long evening dresses are going out of fashion.
(=become fashionable again)· Short skirts are coming back into fashion this year.
(=be very fashionable)· With her short dress and high boots she was the height of fashion.
(=make sure that you know about the most recent fashions)· Lucy likes to keep up with the latest fashions.
(=very interested in the latest fashions, and always wanting to wear fashionable clothes)· Fashion-conscious people can’t get enough of these new designs.
adjectives· They sell all the latest fashions.
· Men’s fashions have not changed much in 50 years.
fashion + NOUN· London is the centre of the British fashion industry.
· Small women are often overlooked by the fashion world.
· Calvin Klein’s fashion show featured suits and sportswear.
· Fashion models are usually very tall.
· Her favourite fashion designers include Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre.
· He went to St Martin’s School of Art to study fashion design.
(=a company that produces new and expensive styles of clothes)· fashion houses such as Armani and Hugo Boss
· She’s the editor of a leading fashion magazine.
· a book of Lang’s fashion photography
· Later he worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue.
(=an occasion when photographs are taken of fashion models)· She was asked to star with top model Naomi Campbell in a fashion shoot.
· We walked around Milan’s famous fashion shops.
COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘the last fashion’. Say the latest fashion.COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES· I decided to throw out all my old-fashioned clothes.
High heels are coming back into fashion.· Young girls are always very fashion conscious.
(=one who advises people on what to wear)· It would be great to have your own fashion consultant.
The jogging craze began in the 1970s. (=for clothes)· the well-known fashion designer, Giorgio Armani
· Fashion has been dictating that women should wear black for years now.
· The old-fashioned expression 'in the family way' means to be pregnant.
I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way. ladies’ underwear a glossy fashion magazine She’s the editor of a popular women’s magazine. A food maven could also be called a gourmet. The elections were conducted in an orderly fashion. The buildings have been adapted in a piecemeal fashion. It was a roundabout way of telling us to leave. British English (=shipshape)
a slave to fashion Sharon became involved with music in the time-honoured fashion – through her family. (=as quickly as is reasonable in a particular situation) We aim to settle all valid claims in a timely manner.
We aim to settle all valid claims in a timely manner.· Some of his views now sound very old-fashioned.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE· Thus the Lincoln was ready for the current fashion for larger carcasses.· In current pedagogic fashion, behaviourist practices have been largely superseded by cognitive and communicative perspectives on learning.· Contrary to the popular stereotype, they take care to dress smartly, according to current youth fashions.· Others are aimed mainly at a middle-aged market, where comfort and quality are more important than the current fashion.· And, following the current fashion, Informix has also opened a software development centre in Dublin, Ireland.· Eclecticism rules these days, and traditional patterns may be thrown together with all the flair for ill-assortment of current Top-Shop fashions.· What does this really mean, and is the current fashion for quality merely rhetorical gloss or does it have more substance?
· So a series has been resurrected in the most dramatic fashion.· Louis two weeks ago, the Raiders have lost games in both dramatic and ridiculous fashion.· Then he seized the initiative in a dramatic fashion, just as he had in April 1182.· Fieldwork in the Highlands was resumed in 1926 in a rather dramatic fashion.· In fact, Churchill attempted in October 1951 to refashion Cabinet government in a fairly dramatic fashion by peacetime standards.· The following day opened in dramatic fashion.· Some ant cuckoo females make their presence felt in more dramatic fashion.· Gedge will not slump in such dramatic fashion because of his businesslike constitution.
· After throwing things around in a very haphazard fashion she finally abandoned her search.· For three decades, water was released from the dam in haphazard fashion, depending on power needs in the Southwest.· This came about in an equally haphazard fashion.· Could one, Peters asked, expect children to learn in the somewhat haphazard fashion that unfettered child-centredness seemed to commend?· Not in a haphazard or whimsical fashion, but as knowledge itself changes.· Over the years, the chalets were added to by their owners in haphazard fashion.
· Now the ikons of female suffering are all around us; the image of the battered woman is high fashion.· Indeed, in traditional High Church fashion, they were not ashamed to announce their belief in the divine-right nature of bishops.· Fifty years later saw the high fashion of segregating house from village.· Today, theory is in high fashion at Western universities, and varied in scope.· So why remove them in such a dramatic, high-profile fashion?· He placed the emphasis on high street fashion.· We grew up in a world of chainstore high fashion, middle-of-the-road revolution, cover-version original pop music.
· But meanwhile, her new role as fashion supremo is something she can really get her teeth into.· Anyway, has anything really new happened in fashion since the mini-skirt?· Opposite the Cathay, one of the many new fashion emporiums is crammed with shoppers browsing the designer labels.· Until the spring, improbable as ever, brought among its pretty new fashions, the greatest shock yet.· Making waves in London is the predicted new male fashion trend christened the Urban Surf Look - the hot news for spring.· Little is left to chance in designing new athletic fashions.· These scouts need to be aware of new fashions as they happen so we can react immediately.· One reason for the new fashion is that people are weary of downsizing.
· The Gaijin were piling arms in an orderly fashion.· Proceed in an orderly fashion and disregard curbstone advice.· The tables were covered with the velvet Dave had found and the exhibits laid out in an orderly fashion.· Engrams are not filed in the orderly fashion man-aged by a cleared standard bank.· Journalism is supposed to present facts in an accurate and orderly fashion.· I arrange my papers in an orderly fashion on my driftwood desk and sharpen my pencils, as I always do.
· The changes in the state sector before the 1980s have occurred in a relatively piecemeal fashion.· To his disappointments it developed in a piecemeal fashion.· The charges against Sutyagin can, therefore, be established only in piecemeal fashion.· It is only during this century that statutory services have been developed and they came in a very piecemeal fashion.· They may conceive of it in piecemeal fashion, recognising particular boundaries as and when it is unavoidably necessary to do so.· The process of drainage and enclosure was probably occurring in a piecemeal fashion all through the late Saxon period.· The cuckoo's adaptations were simply too perfect to have evolved bit by bit, in piecemeal fashion.
· It would appear that one, two, four and six are marked in a basically similar fashion.· Unfortunately, when you write, your thoughts bounce around the page in a similar fashion.· And if everyone else is rebelling in a similar fashion, we might get some decent hot hatchbacks back into circulation.· So... what if a computer were built to operate in a similar fashion?· In a similar fashion, changes in opportunities reflect the development of the social career.· Self-managed teams operate in a similar fashion to work-unit teams, but with employees assuming greatly expanded responsibilities.· Within this mass, the smaller workers have in a similar fashion created chambers in which the pupae hang.· The other networks built their news departments of global depth and experience in a similar fashion.
· Elsewhere, equities boiled over in spectacular fashion.· Especially strong was Marin County, where every single zip code bounced back, sometimes in spectacular fashion.· A serious error could easily result in every semi-conductor in the project being destroyed, possibly in spectacular fashion.· They had waited for the Darkfall to blow itself out, which it did in spectacular fashion.· Theatres specialise for children, ready to tell us tales, ancient and modern, in spectacular fashion.· West ham had a couple of good shots on goal one of which Beaney tipped over the bar in spectacular fashion.· It's a choice between you and them, either they die or Turry explodes in a spectacular fashion.
· I want those results in a timely fashion!
· In true Celtic fashion, physical strength and absence of blemish would be the qualification of a king.· In true coevolutionary fashion, coevolution breeds coevolution.· Still, in true Dwarf fashion, they were not about to admit to a mistake.· And so, in true Arien fashion, she had decided to take the bull by the horns.
· At brisk cornering speeds the Calibra behaves in typical front-drive fashion.· In typical fashion, the federal government feels that it must do something.· In typical fashion Stirling decided on a bluff which had often helped him before.· In typical Atlanta fashion, it was razed in 1977 to make room for the new Atlanta-Fulton Public Library.· He had prepared himself for the Stoics match in typical fashion the night before.· In typical fashion, Hostetler let Dudley know.· He led his female into a cave where they spawned nose to tail in typical mouthbrooder fashion.· But then in typical Bloodhut fashion, a goofy gag succeeds.
NOUN· For anything up to £500, this place can fix you up with a fashion accessory in a class of its own.· It could be the mandatory audio fashion accessory of the summer.· This enables me to buy the latest fashion accessories and clothes without relying on my parents.· Electronic mail has become so hip it's almost a fashion accessory.· Children are not fashion accessories that can be pushed aside.· But Atari don't like their machine to be seen as a fashion accessory.· Super-hip fashion accessory or just a way of keeping the kids out of the amusement arcades?· This subtle shift has a great deal to do with the current fashion accessory of an eligible husband rather than an eligible boss.
· She will give an hour of fashion fun, talking and demonstrating her hat hire service and nearly-new designer fashion business.· Resident movie stars such as Sylvester Stallone, Cher and Madonna also have spurred a boomlet in the entertainment and fashion businesses.· He works in the fashion business and has lived with his girlfriend for the past six years.
· There was one girl who longed, seemingly in an unrealistic way, to become a fashion designer.· Since then, fashion designers have learned not to dictate a length.· Showbiz characters rubbed shoulders with politicians, famous food and wine writers, and fashion designers.· They say they've enjoyed the transition from farmer to fashion designer.· Early successes in the drug trade mean that Harry can underwrite Marion's attempts to become a fashion designer.· Now wait a minute - it wouldn't be that young fashion designer, would it?
· Toning Whoever heard of any of them being groomed by a fashion editor and strapped into toning pinks for a photo call?· Egged on by some publicity cooked up by the fashion editor, she and her sister Carole got a book contract.· Nicholas Knightly was the name that a lot of fashion editors were instead catching up with.· Then there were the fashion editors that could have described her chemise frock while she did the shooting.· A leading fashion editor suggests that in fact we have too many, rather than too few, clothes.· The trip to Milan would otherwise have undoubtedly fallen to her, as the nominal fashion editor.· Model Orla feigns sleep and eve fashion editor Sarah Newton looks on.
· He met Yves Saint Laurent, then at Dior, and helped him found his own fashion house.· In the end President Mitterrand chose his friend Pierre Berge, head of a fashion house, to sort out the mess.· Close inspection makes one marvel at the intricate perfection of nature opposed to the finest fashion houses.· There is no difference for me between working in a fashion house and working in an opera.· She runs a fashion house now.
· The pop music and fashion industries were geared specifically towards the young and magazines flourished in order to promote these trends.· The suggestions also revealed a lot about the fashion industry and its relationship with the first lady.· A village-based fabric weaving and dyeing business was quite unused to the sudden whims and vagaries of the capitalist fashion industry.· The drug chic controversy, though, has brought forth an odd mixture of indignation and acknowledgment from the fashion industry.· But now the relationship is supposedly reversed, with the fashion industry kowtowing to consumers.· The fashion industry is now fighting Aids with everything it has got.
· She was twenty-eight years of age with the kind of breathtaking allure normally associated with the cover of a glossy fashion magazine.· I would cut out the people in the fashion magazines and use them as though I was creating a play.· She looked as if she could be on the cover of a fashion magazine.· Her designer clothes were from the pages of a glossy fashion magazine.· She wasn't a girl at all, in any sense that the fashion magazines would recognize.· It specialises in giving everyday people a glamorous look that would do the cover of any top fashion magazine proud.· I look at fashion magazines more than I look at news magazines.· Andrew Logan's party, for instance, which got us our first press - a mention in an upmarket society fashion magazine.
· He got hitched fifteen years ago to some fashion model.· He looks like a fashion model, a clubland vamp or the boy next door.· Yet out of uniform she looked like a fashion model.· Film stars and fashion models became more slender because their angles photographed better on screen and in magazines.· Although she may have many other fine qualities, she is clearly not an international fashion model.· Do women really want to look like fashion models?· Masha, 20, is training to be a fashion model in St Petersburg.· Two self-employed fashion models, both in their early 20s, also are charged.
· Later he worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue, snapping a young Brigitte Bardot amongst others.· He finds a job as assistant to a famous fashion photographer, the amusingly named Vesuvi.
· Craik also draws our attention to the increasing eroticism of 1970s and 1980s fashion photography.· And in turn, their fashion photography somehow seems elevated, more substantial because it was created by bona fide artistes.· To me it was like an unreality, like fashion photography.· Wildman pioneered advertising and fashion photography in Britain, specifically outdoor location work, as well as creating natural indoor lighting.· His range is broader than the other histories, and includes fashion photography and advertising within its compass.· Before 1989, Benetton's images still seemed to relate to the genre of studio fashion photography.· Therefore, it is easy to see how some photographers have moved between areas of anthropological and fashion photography.
· To mark its fiftieth birthday the Oxford-based charity Oxfam has been holding a fashion show with a difference.· Next came a fashion show of ladies' hats designed by Billie Singleton of Topeka.· Any minute she could be gliding down a runway at a Saks fashion show.· All the tee-shirts were modelled by the pupils during the school's fashion show organised by the Parent Teachers Association.· After all, Oscar night is the biggest fashion show in the world.· She trips off to view the fashion show.
· Reporting from the international catwalks, Meredith Etherington-Smith has defined and simplified this season's fashion statements, beginning on page 261.· Tonight, you might take the shaved head as a fashion statement.· The textiles from Qawrighul are more than a fashion statement.· The Minipod is more than a fashion statement.· No fashion statements with the Mary Chain.· Now it was to become a fashion statement for the world.· But one man stands alone, and he's making his own fashion statement.· Even Rei Kawakubo of Comme des Garcons, high priestess of the black fashion statement, is designing in color.
· I don't want to be a fashion victim.· Our intention was to dress a model for illustrative purposes, not to create fashion victims.· Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.· Aristos, being of course a complete media and fashion victim, had heard of it and ordered champagne.· Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.· There are a few male fashion victims; all women are victims of fashion.· It wasn't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers, it was about improving the real world.
· Having conquered the fashion world, she is now being courted by Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks film company.· Dana wouldn't give up the chance to shine in front of all the heads of the fashion world.· His existence had been particularly dull, holding down brief part-time work selling clothes in Manchester's underground fashion world.· But things change quickly in the fashion world.· Another group overlooked by the fashion world are petite women.· And Sandra has become a style icon, for the fashion world particularly.· He liked the fashion world and its reliance on youth.· His first collection took the fashion world by storm, breathing new life into the stuffy world of Parisian hautecouture.
VERB· By going shopping Mr Azcárraga has followed fashion.· Studies of language development, however, have followed different swings of fashion.· And, following the current fashion, Informix has also opened a software development centre in Dublin, Ireland.· If it does not follow that fashion, many observers fear the country will not sustain its usual calm.· Must it follow fashion or be above it?· Adults follow fashion in clothes and social habits as assiduously as their children.
PHRASES FROM THE ENTRYPHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► doggy style/fashion► ethnic cooking/fashion/design etc
- She's been spending money like it's going out of fashion.
- And it has been in the nature of documentary television to also exploit the subject of mental handicap in a sensational fashion.
- First connect to the separate provider in the standard fashion.
- I would have been pleased to start this section in similar fashion, but could find very little evidence of improvements.
- In a friendly fashion, I began with a simple question: Why had he gone into pathology?
- Possibly Jim would have survived for a goodly while bobbing up and down in this fashion.
- To compensate for this, they move their heads in a jerky fashion.
- Unfortunately, when you write, your thoughts bounce around the page in a similar fashion.
- With the economy behaving in almost perfect fashion, stock prices enjoyed some of their strongest gains in years.
- The group learns to ride and lasso after a fashion.
- Aunt Lou seldom approved of the people who lived above her, but it worked after a fashion.
- Broadman, who could read after a fashion, peered over the top of the volume.
- Grubbing for business on dud leads was, at least, after a fashion dealing.
- It has worked, after a fashion.
- Kissing continues, after a fashion, but tongues now completely verboten.
- So they became friends, after a fashion.
- The gates clanged shut again, Berwick succoured, after a fashion, with a day to go.
- You met him ... Well, after a fashion, you met him ten years ago or so.
- His early work is very much after the fashion of Faulkner and O'Connor.
- Once, he had considered its aged look as just the thing, after the fashion of the Boston Cracked Shoe look.
- All these artists were the height of fashion in the middle years of the 19C.
- The stunning luminous display and thickly padded, genuine leather wristband are the height of fashion in any setting.
- Dealers would repeat this parrot fashion in the same optimistic note that the director had used on them.
- Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.
- They are running neck-and-neck in the popularity stakes.
- Aristos, being of course a complete media and fashion victim, had heard of it and ordered champagne.
- Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.
- I don't want to be a fashion victim.
- It wasn't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers, it was about improving the real world.
- Our intention was to dress a model for illustrative purposes, not to create fashion victims.
- Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.
- There are a few male fashion victims; all women are victims of fashion.
WORD FAMILYnounfashionadjectivefashionable ≠ unfashionableverbfashionadverbfashionably ≠ unfashionably
1[countable, uncountable] something that is popular or thought to be good at a particular timefashion for the fashion for ‘discovery methods’ of learningfashion in The emerging science of photography was already changing fashions in art.in fashion Bright colours are in fashion this summer.out of fashion Their music will never go out of fashion. His ideas are coming back into fashion (=they are becoming popular again). Eastern religions used to be the fashion in the 60s. Self-help books are all the fashion (=they are very fashionable).GRAMMAR Don’t say: on fashion2[countable, uncountable] a style of clothes, hair etc that is popular at a particular time: Young people are very concerned with fashion. The store has all the latest fashions.3[uncountable] the business or study of making and selling clothes, shoes etc in new and changing styles: magazines about fashion and beauty the London College of Fashion4in a ... fashion in a particular way: Please leave the building in an orderly fashion. Perhaps they could sit down and discuss things in a civilised fashion. She will be working out her problems in her own fashion (=in the way that she usually does this).5after a fashion not very much, not very well, or not very effectively: ‘Can you speak Russian?’ ‘After a fashion.’6after the fashion of somebody in a style that is typical of a particular person: Her early work is very much after the fashion of Picasso and Braque.7like it’s going out of fashion informal use this to emphasize that someone does something a lot or uses a lot of something: Danny’s been spending money like it’s going out of fashion. → parrot fashion at parrot1(2)COLLOCATIONSphrasesbe in fashion· Belted jackets are in fashion this winter.be out of fashion· Flared trousers were out of fashion in the 1980s.go out of fashion (=stop being fashionable)· Long evening dresses are going out of fashion.come back into fashion (=become fashionable again)· Short skirts are coming back into fashion this year.be the height of fashion (=be very fashionable)· With her short dress and high boots she was the height of fashion.keep up with fashion (=make sure that you know about the most recent fashions)· Lucy likes to keep up with the latest fashions.fashion-conscious (=very interested in the latest fashions, and always wanting to wear fashionable clothes)· Fashion-conscious people can’t get enough of these new designs.adjectivesthe latest fashion· They sell all the latest fashions.men’s/women’s fashions· Men’s fashions have not changed much in 50 years.fashion + NOUNthe fashion industry· London is the centre of the British fashion industry.the fashion world· Small women are often overlooked by the fashion world.a fashion show· Calvin Klein’s fashion show featured suits and sportswear.a fashion model· Fashion models are usually very tall.a fashion designer· Her favourite fashion designers include Giorgio Armani and Gianfranco Ferre.fashion design· He went to St Martin’s School of Art to study fashion design.a fashion house (=a company that produces new and expensive styles of clothes)· fashion houses such as Armani and Hugo Bossa fashion magazine· She’s the editor of a leading fashion magazine.fashion photography· a book of Lang’s fashion photographya fashion photographer· Later he worked as a fashion photographer for Vogue.a fashion shoot (=an occasion when photographs are taken of fashion models)· She was asked to star with top model Naomi Campbell in a fashion shoot.a fashion shop· We walked around Milan’s famous fashion shops.COMMON ERRORS ► Don’t say ‘the last fashion’. Say the latest fashion.THESAURUSfashion noun [countable, uncountable] a style of clothes, hair, behaviour etc that is fashionable. Fashion is also used as an uncountable noun, when talking about all of these styles in general: · the latest fashions from Donna Karan· changing fashions in popular music· I’m not interested in fashion.vogue noun [singular, uncountable] if there is a vogue forsomething, or it is in vogue, it is fashionable. Vogue sounds more formal and typical of the language that more educated speakers use than fashion: · the current vogue for realistic animated films· There was a vogue for cream furniture in the 1920s.· His pictures are very much in vogue these days.trend noun [countable] a way of doing something or a way of thinking that is becoming fashionable or popular: · The magazine focuses on the latest trends in contemporary design.· The trend is for people to wait longer to marry and have children.craze/fad noun [countable] informal a fashion, activity, type of music etc that suddenly becomes very popular, but only remains popular for a short time – often used about things that you think are rather silly: · a new fitness craze· the current fad for bare white walls and uncomfortable-looking metal furniture· I’m sure it’s just a passing fad (=something that will soon stop being fashionable).· fad dietssomething is all the rage formal used when saying that something is very popular and fashionable for a short time: · The game was all the rage at her school.fashion1 nounfashion2 verb
fashionfashion2 ●○○ verb [transitive] VERB TABLE
fashion
| Simple Form | ||
| Present | I, you, we, they | fashion |
| he, she, it | fashions | |
| Past | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | fashioned |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have fashioned |
| he, she, it | has fashioned | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had fashioned |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will fashion |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have fashioned |
| Continuous Form | ||
| Present | I | am fashioning |
| he, she, it | is fashioning | |
| you, we, they | are fashioning | |
| Past | I, he, she, it | was fashioning |
| you, we, they | were fashioning | |
| Present perfect | I, you, we, they | have been fashioning |
| he, she, it | has been fashioning | |
| Past perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | had been fashioning |
| Future | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will be fashioning |
| Future perfect | I, you, he, she, it, we, they | will have been fashioning |
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- Our attitudes to politics are fashioned by the media.
- The man had fashioned a turban from a strip of torn cloth.
- Two million years ago our ancestors began to fashion stone tools.
- All three combined to fashion an equaliser, of course.
- Few coffin-makers had the talent to fashion such an item, so an order would have gone out to a local plumber.
- Taxes and the budget are obvious topics as Republicans fashion an economic agenda for the national convention.
- To fashion patterns of light into such weapons.
- When the rains came, they huddled under umbrellas and makeshift tents and donned ponchos or raincoats fashioned from plastic garbage bags.
Longman Language Activatorto make something
to produce something which did not exist before: · Diane makes all her own clothes.· The furniture was made by a Swedish firm.· They've just finished making a movie about life during the Civil War.· My camera was made in Taiwan.make somebody something: · I'll make you a coffee, shall I?be made of something (=to be made using a particular substance): · a bag made of leatherbe made from something (=to be made by putting together different materials, substances, or parts): · People were living in huts made from mud, stones, and straw.make something out of/from something: · You could make some cushion covers out of those curtains.
to make large quantities of food, equipment, or other goods by means of industrial processes: · The dairy produced over 1500 tonnes of butter per year.· They produce cheap goods for export to the United States.· a factory that produces high-quality steel
to make machines, equipment, cars etc in factories: · He works for a small company manufacturing aluminium products.· The car was designed, developed, and manufactured in collaboration with Honda.
to make goods in very large quantities using special industrial processes: · Henry Ford made his fortune mass-producing the Model T.· The bike is the first mass-produced bicycle to have full front and rear suspension.
to make large quantities of things, especially without caring about quality: churn/turn out something: · They turn out cheap souvenirs for tourists.· Churning out pamphlets and booklets is ineffective if consumers cannot understand the messages.churn/turn something out: · As long as people keep buying these products, the company will keep turning them out.
to invent something new and original in art, music, fashion etc: · Picasso created a completely new style of painting.· She wanted to create a garden to complement her beautiful home.· This dish was created by master chef Marco Pierre White.
formal to make something using your hands or simple tools: · Two million years ago our ancestors began to fashion stone tools.fashion something from something: · The man had fashioned a turban from a strip of torn cloth.
to make something complicated, especially a building, machine, or vehicle, by putting parts together: · One of Jim's hobbies is building model airplanes.· John and his father built the cabin themselves.build something by hand (=build something without using machines): · Every single car is built by hand at the company's headquarters near Turin.
to make something, especially something large, solid, and strong, by putting parts together: · It is easy to construct a wooden framework for plants to grow against.· Developers want to construct a replica of the 19th century steam yacht.construct something from something: · The roof frames were constructed from thick, heavy timbers.
to make something such as a machine or a piece of furniture by putting together parts that have been made somewhere else: · It's one of those beds that you have to assemble yourself.· Our kits are very easy to assemble.· The apprentices worked in the shed where the new locomotives were assembled and the old ones repaired.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES High heels are coming back into fashion. The jogging craze began in the 1970s. I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way. ladies’ underwear a glossy fashion magazine She’s the editor of a popular women’s magazine. A food maven could also be called a gourmet. The elections were conducted in an orderly fashion. The buildings have been adapted in a piecemeal fashion. It was a roundabout way of telling us to leave. a slave to fashion Sharon became involved with music in the time-honoured fashion – through her family.
· I decided to throw out all my old-fashioned clothes.
High heels are coming back into fashion.· Young girls are always very fashion conscious.
(=one who advises people on what to wear)· It would be great to have your own fashion consultant.
The jogging craze began in the 1970s. (=for clothes)· the well-known fashion designer, Giorgio Armani
· Fashion has been dictating that women should wear black for years now.
· The old-fashioned expression 'in the family way' means to be pregnant.
I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way. ladies’ underwear a glossy fashion magazine She’s the editor of a popular women’s magazine. A food maven could also be called a gourmet. The elections were conducted in an orderly fashion. The buildings have been adapted in a piecemeal fashion. It was a roundabout way of telling us to leave. British English (=shipshape)
a slave to fashion Sharon became involved with music in the time-honoured fashion – through her family. (=as quickly as is reasonable in a particular situation) We aim to settle all valid claims in a timely manner.
We aim to settle all valid claims in a timely manner.· Some of his views now sound very old-fashioned.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES► doggy style/fashion► ethnic cooking/fashion/design etc
- All these artists were the height of fashion in the middle years of the 19C.
- The stunning luminous display and thickly padded, genuine leather wristband are the height of fashion in any setting.
- Dealers would repeat this parrot fashion in the same optimistic note that the director had used on them.
- Although still carrying the hallmarks of a true fishing port, Padstow is fast gaining ground in the popularity stakes.
- They are running neck-and-neck in the popularity stakes.
- Aristos, being of course a complete media and fashion victim, had heard of it and ordered champagne.
- Blast is still going strong though, perhaps because its sound is too loud for wet fashion victims to handle.
- I don't want to be a fashion victim.
- It wasn't about creating quirky objects for kitsch fashion victim consumers, it was about improving the real world.
- Our intention was to dress a model for illustrative purposes, not to create fashion victims.
- Pleats create a weird-looking smock effect, appealing to the adventurous with a touch of fashion victim in them.
- There are a few male fashion victims; all women are victims of fashion.
WORD FAMILYnounfashionadjectivefashionable ≠ unfashionableverbfashionadverbfashionably ≠ unfashionably
1to shape or make something, using your hands or only a few toolsfashion something from something He fashioned a box from a few old pieces of wood.fashion something into something Jamie could take a piece of wood and fashion it into a wonderful work of art.2to influence and form someone’s ideas and opinions: We are all unique human beings, fashioned by life experiences.GRAMMAR Fashion is usually passive in this meaning.