Everybody knows that American designers aren’t truly known for expressing a truly innovative “out of the box” creation, however it doesn’t mean that you cant appreciate them. When looking at designers across the world they (though they are different) all share one thing. A lot of them choose to incorporate a piece of a culture that either they identify with, sympathize with or are just plain infatuated with. Incorporating these different ethnic flairs isn’t something new, but it is presented in awesome ways each time new lines are created. Vera Wang in this year’s NY Fashion week according to style.com defiantly incorporated a nice Indian theme, using colors, shapes, and scarves…
Fashion is on the rise as the sun is daily to the world. It is emerging as the light for many paths that people choice to take today. Fashion captivates, motivates and inspires… and fashion is a huge wave. With the technological field of textiles and manufacturing of choice fabrics, many styles are able to be transferred across cultures. First fashion changes take place within the culture and then waves through other cultures. So yes I do feel that fashion is dependent from knowledge of and about cultures besides your own.
Who makes you feel as if you want to “rock” that style? Who is that is the trendsetter in your life? Well if you answer that question it probably comes from the well known trickledown theory. It is a process that suggests that fashion trends emerge from the top of a particular social status and economic class in most cases and is translated into the everyday styles of “common” people up to months later. Well the same thing happens with Ethnic influences. There are soooo many different ethnic groups who have their own styles. Therefore it seems only natural that merchandisers, (when doing their research) “cop” their styles. In my opinion, this way of influencing fashion gives everyone a broader range of fashion ideas unless a particular style is exploited in a negative manner.
It is soooo easy to incorporate your own style into a style that you see that someone else portrays. With that same mindset that is the same exact way multiple ethnics definitely find their ways into American style of dress especially. With the introduction of the most recent scarves, way back to when the tie dyes became the hottest trends. Both are things that yes we as Americans use, but were adapted from Indian and or African cultures. In the sixties what we know as “tie- dye” was the absolute way to go! Yet and still it was definitely a branch off of a technique called bandhani which was an ancient process used by ancient nations. (University of Hawaii, 1989) This proves that these processes really do affect dress.
http://udel.edu/~orzada/india1960.htm
http://www.style.com/
Fashion is on the rise as the sun is daily to the world. It is emerging as the light for many paths that people choice to take today. Fashion captivates, motivates and inspires… and fashion is a huge wave. With the technological field of textiles and manufacturing of choice fabrics, many styles are able to be transferred across cultures. First fashion changes take place within the culture and then waves through other cultures. So yes I do feel that fashion is dependent from knowledge of and about cultures besides your own.
Who makes you feel as if you want to “rock” that style? Who is that is the trendsetter in your life? Well if you answer that question it probably comes from the well known trickledown theory. It is a process that suggests that fashion trends emerge from the top of a particular social status and economic class in most cases and is translated into the everyday styles of “common” people up to months later. Well the same thing happens with Ethnic influences. There are soooo many different ethnic groups who have their own styles. Therefore it seems only natural that merchandisers, (when doing their research) “cop” their styles. In my opinion, this way of influencing fashion gives everyone a broader range of fashion ideas unless a particular style is exploited in a negative manner.
It is soooo easy to incorporate your own style into a style that you see that someone else portrays. With that same mindset that is the same exact way multiple ethnics definitely find their ways into American style of dress especially. With the introduction of the most recent scarves, way back to when the tie dyes became the hottest trends. Both are things that yes we as Americans use, but were adapted from Indian and or African cultures. In the sixties what we know as “tie- dye” was the absolute way to go! Yet and still it was definitely a branch off of a technique called bandhani which was an ancient process used by ancient nations. (University of Hawaii, 1989) This proves that these processes really do affect dress.
http://udel.edu/~orzada/india1960.htm
http://www.style.com/
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