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Fashion Week, Day One: Moderation is the New Excess
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How to be sure luxury has lost its luster? For starters, on the first day of Fashion Week, The Daily — Fashion Week’s pulse-taking publication — featured shopping buzz kill Suze Orman. Then there’s the fact that fashionistas themselves are wrapping up — not in furs and stilettos — but in practical black nylon coats, leggings and boots. You might attribute part of this sober trend to the weather, but I’ve seen seasons past when fashion die hards braved the chill in bare legs and stilettos, all in the name of chic.
One reason moderation is attracting so many followers is because it’s become so amazingly attractive. In fashion, popular-priced stores like Gap are churning out great-fitting premium jeans that cost a third of the hoity-toity brands. Even travel — which I have to admit I’ve sometimes been a snob about — has come around. This Fashion Week trip I went moderate with my hotel choice and have been amazed by how my cozy Hampton Inn in Times Square blows away the boutiques and four-stars I’ve stayed in before. From top-notch customer service to freebies (all-day coffee, free breakfast, free wifi, free cookies,) clean updated rooms and plush beds, this moderately priced hotel is now my new favorite NY stay. Brands and luxury? Nobody cares anymore. All we want are affordable jeans that don’t make us look fat and all the free coffee can drink.
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Fashion, a general term for the style and custom prevalent at a given time, in its most common usage refers to costume or clothing style. The more technical term, costume, has become so linked in the public eye with the term "fashion" that the more general term "costume" has in popular use mostly been relegated to special senses like fancy dress or masquerade wear, while the term "fashion" means clothing generally, and the study of it. This linguistic switch is due to the fashion plates which were produced during the Industrial Revolution, showing the latest designs.[citation needed] For a broad cross-cultural look at clothing and its place in society, refer to the entries for clothing, costume and fabrics. The remainder of this article deals with clothing fashions in the Western world.
