Fashion Trends - Factors Affecting Fashion Trends

Fashion trends

Factors affecting fashion trends:

Culture of celebrities- customers are usually looking on what celebrities are decide to wear and then they buy the same clothes as they have seen on them.

Impact of music- music lovers are always following the fashion of musicians and bands

Technology- developers of the high-tech devises always wants to make their products fashionable, therefore they are use patterns of fashion trends on those goods

Media influences – customers are highly influences by what they have seen on the screen and then they usually buy those products, which they think are popular.

The history of the stripes trend:

Stripes on the cloths - it's simple, but fascinating as well. This fashion trend was brought by the sailors 150 years ago. Due to the fact that those profession was always been respected and sailors associated with brave people, this type of the clothes become to be popular among the lots of people. However, some women thought that stripes of the clothes could make them looks fat, anyway that was not true. A horizontal strip helps to emphasize the beauty of female body shape.

The popularity of the marine style stripes on the clothes was brought because everybody liked the military style. By the end of 60s this trend is firmly taken its place on the catwalks and front covers of the magazines. Almost all fashionable women at this time has at least one item with the stripes print in their wardrobe.

The first celebrity who made this trend even more popular was Gabrielle Chanel , who wearied a stylish striped print top.

Stripes trend was very popular at 60s and 50s, after the World War. Celebrities was veering this kind of clothes because they were aware about the recent events. At the beginning this kind of clothes celelebries tend to wear especially on special occasions.(Natali Wood, Audrey Hepburn, Brigid Bardo). Nowadays stripes clothes wearied by celebrities like casual clothes for everyday use. It is  really loved by Kate Moss and Miranda Kerr). There is the link between what celebrities are choose to wear and mass market, because they tend to copy what they have seen on famous people. Therefore, they think that they looks more glamorous and fashionable.

Stripes trend become very popular due to different reasons, one of them because this kind of clothes were wearied by the band s on their concerts. The peak of popularity for this trend was at 2010 due to the fact that the famous singer of that time- Hayley Williams was always wearing striped t-shirts or jeans on her concerts. Usually it was black and white stripes, which actually linked to the philosophy of her songs. Her fans usually wearied the same outfit not only for her concerts but in the real life as well.

Nowadays media has become a powerful tool, which has a huge influence on what people choose to wear. Stripe trend has become so popular that magazines such as Selp, Elle and  Harpers Bazaar placed this clothes on the front covers of the magazines. That have made a crucial impact on the reputation of the trend.

Leopard trend:

The history of leopard print begins in ancient Egypt. That was used for imitation of the skin of the animals. It was a signage of the power and authority. History leopard print begins in ancient Egypt. This clothes was only allowed to wear by monarchs, priests and kings. Further on, Hollywood divas have made this print really popular. In 1925, actress Marianne Nixon appeared on Hollywood Boulevard in Los Angeles in leopard coat. After it, leopard print has become even more fashionable.