Fashion School: Fashion Terms You Need to Know

Summary by Krater

A fashion commentator defines and clarifies major industry terms including archive, vintage, warp, weft, bias, collaboration, couture, ready-to-wear, creative director, democratization, deconstruction, anti-fashion, and avant-garde, explaining their proper usage and distinctions.

From the video

Answers: What do major fashion terms like archive, couture, bias cut, and avant-garde actually mean?

• Fashion terminology and definitions
• Archive fashion
• Vintage clothing vs archive
• Warp and weft in weaving
• Bias cut dressmaking
• Fashion collaborations and brand partnerships
• Haute couture regulations
• Ready-to-wear fashion history
• Role of the creative director
• Democratization of fashion
• Deconstruction in fashion design
• Anti-fashion aesthetics and designers

What it concludes

• Clothing from a designer's past body of work that is not from their current season is considered archive fashion.
• Anything in fashion 20 years or older can safely be called vintage.
• A bias cut refers to clothing cut on the grain at a 45-degree angle to create more fluidity and soft drapes.
• Fashion collaborations serve as a business move that gives smaller brands access to distribution and manufacturing resources and bigger brands cachet and street cred.
• Haute couture is strictly regulated by the Chambre Syndicale de la Haute Couture in Paris with specific requirements for private fittings, atelier size, and seasonal collections.
• Deconstruction in fashion serves as an auto-critique of the fashion system, demonstrating the unfinished or destroyed look of garments.