Fashion Design Vocab Words

Definition of Archive

• 2 basic components in weaving to turn yarn or thread into fabric.

• Clothing from the past of any designer or brand.

• To be “cut on the grain” at a 45 degree angle rather than following the straight line of the weave

• Photograph

Definition of Wrap & Weft

• To be “cut on the grain” at a 45 degree angle rather than following the straight line of the weave

• Clothing from the past of any designer or brand

• 2 basic components in weaving to turn yarn or thread into fabric

Definition of BIAS

• Clothing from the past of any

  designer or brand

• 2 basic components in weaving to turn thread or yarn into fabric

• A singer

• To be “cut on the grain” at a 45 degree angle rather than following the straight line of the weave

Definition of Collaboration

• Working with someone to produce or create something together

• Design and manufacture of clothes to a client’s measurements and requirements

• Made for the general market or sold through stores

Definition of Couture

• Made for the general market or sold through stores

• Design and manufacture of clothes to a client’s measurements and requirements

• High

• Dressmaking

Definition of Ready-To-Wear

• Design and manufacture of clothes to a client’s measurements and requirements

• Made for the general market or sold through stores

• Working with someone to produce or create something together

Definition of Deconstruction

• Determines the vision of a brand or project through digital, print and film illustrations

• Making something accessible to everyone

• A method of critical analysis of philosophical

  and literary language which emphasizes

  the internal workings of language and

  conceptual systems, the relational quality

  of meaning, and the assumptions implicit

  in forms of expression

Definition of Creative Director

• A method of critical analysis of philosophical

  and literary language which emphasizes

  the internal workings of language and

  conceptual systems, the relational quality

  of meaning, and the assumptions implicit

  in forms of expression

• Determine the vision of a brand or project through digital, print and film illustrations

• Making something accessible to everyone

Definition of Democratization

• Making something accessible to everyone

• A method of critical analysis of philosophical

  and literary language which emphasizes

  the internal workings of language and

  conceptual systems, the relational quality

  of meaning, and the assumptions implicit

  in forms of expression

• Determines the vision of a brand or projects through digital, print and film illustration

Definition of Deconstruction Fashion

• Various styles of dresses, which are explicitly contrary to the fashion of the day (umbrella term)

• Making of unfinished, decomposing, and re-assembled clothes

• New and unusual or experimental ideas, especially in the arts, or the people introducing them