Fashion Summaries S–Z

The Apparel Search fashion summaries are short, plain-language guides to single fashion topics — a garment, a job, a school, a city, an event. Each summary explains what its topic is and points onward to the guides, directories and articles elsewhere on Apparel Search that cover the subject in more depth.

This page is the S–Z part of the summary index: every summary whose topic begins with a letter from S to Z, grouped by letter — 46 summaries in all, covering schools, shows, trends and the fashion weeks. The rest of the alphabet is indexed on the companion pages, and the section’s original Fashion Summary list pages present the summaries as one continuous list.

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S

• Fashion Schools — Defines fashion schools and the subjects they teach, from design and merchandising to textile design, at college and university level.
• Fashion Schools California — Highlights California fashion schools including FIDM with its degree programs, campuses, internships, and industry partner projects.
• Fashion Schools NYC — Covers NYC fashion schools including FIT, Parsons, and LIM College, noting New York schools are among the best in the world.
• Fashion Show — Defines a fashion show as a designer event modeling collections for buyers, media and insiders, debuting seasonally at fashion weeks.
• Fashion Shows NYC — Covers fashion shows in New York City, a fashion capital, with New York Fashion Week and links to NYC fashion events and exhibits.
• Fashion Sketches — Explains fashion sketches and illustration as ways designers record, develop and communicate clothing ideas before production.
• Fashion Sneaker — Covers sneakers originally for sports now worn as fashion, with trendy designer styles, shopping options, and collectible shoes.
• Fashion Snoops — Explains snooping and Fashion Snoops, a trend service for brands and retailers, and how snoops hunt for fashion trends and news.
• Fashion Styles — Defines style as distinctive appearance expressed through clothing, listing styles like street, vintage, bohemian, chic, and preppy.
• Fashion Stylists — Defines fashion or wardrobe stylists who coordinate clothes for shoots, campaigns, celebrities and public appearances.
• Fashion Synonym — Explains synonyms with fashion examples comparing clothing and apparel, shoes and footwear, coats and jackets, and trendy and stylish.

T

• Fashion Tape — Covers double-sided fashion tape to hold dresses and bra straps in place, plus other industry tapes like twill, bias and elastic tape.
• Fashion Tech — Covers fashion technology making design, manufacturing, marketing and retailing more efficient, including wearable tech and tech labs.
• Fashion Terms — Brief hub linking to fashion synonyms, glossary, terms and definitions for improving fashion vocabulary.
• Fashion Trends — Defines fashion trends as what is stylish at a time, influenced by celebrities and social factors, with forecasting and trend reports.

U

• Fashion Umbrella — Covers fashion umbrellas as colorful statement rain accessories in many colors and patterns beyond basic black stick umbrellas.
• Fashion Unfiltered — Explains fashion unfiltered as speaking truthfully about style and wearing what you enjoy without filtering, plus the Fashion Unfiltered site.
• Fashion Uniforms — Defines uniforms as distinctive group clothing for work, school, sports and military, and fashion uniforms that add style, with suppliers.
• Fashion Union — Covers labor unions in fashion and textiles, how they negotiate wages and conditions, and unions like UNITE HERE and Workers United.
• Fashion Universe — Playful page presenting the fashion universe as limitless, covering the cosmos, space suits, Einstein t-shirts, and fashion elements.
• Fashion University — Defines a university and a fashion university offering courses or degrees in fashion topics, and contrasts college and university.
• Fashion Unlimited — Explains fashion unlimited as near-unlimited access to fashion via the internet and infinite style choices, plus a Baltimore manufacturer.

V

• Fashion Venture Capital Firms — Explains venture capital for early-stage fashion businesses and lists firms like Fashion Capital Partners, Simon Ventures and Felix Capital.
• Fashion Vest — Defines a vest as a sleeveless waist-length garment over a shirt, discussing basic versus fashion vests and their cycles in and out of style.
• Fashion Victim — Defines a fashion victim as someone who slavishly follows trends, vulnerable to fads and materialism and overspending on popular items.
• Fashion Videos — Covers fashion videos as recordings of fashion topics including documentaries and fashion week, with sources like YouTube, Vogue and Vimeo.
• Fashion Vocabulary — Defines vocabulary and fashion vocabulary with examples like pret-a-porter, haute couture, deconstruction, pleats and fishtail.
• Fashion Vogue — Defines vogue as the prevailing fashionable style and covers Vogue magazine, founded as a weekly newspaper in 1892 in the United States.

W

• Fashion Week — Defines fashion week as several days of runway shows by top designers for buyers and media, tracing its origin to Press Week in 1943.
• Fashion Week Calendar — Explains fashion week calendars for tracking dates and times of upcoming fashion week events worldwide for buyers, media and travel planning.
• Fashion Week Daily — Explains daily means occurring every day, noting fashion week events occur daily over about a week and fashion news should be followed daily.
• Fashion Week Designers — Covers the central role of fashion designers at fashion week, noting not all attend and those who show are typically high-end luxury designers.
• Fashion Week Events — Describes fashion week as a week-long industry event where designers present collections in runway shows to press and buyers, influencing trends.
• Fashion Week NYC — Explains why New York Fashion Week matters, citing NYC as a fashion capital held in February and September for buyers, press and the public.
• Fashion Week Schedule — Explains fashion week schedules listing designers, runway show dates and times, found on each event organizer website.
• Fashion Week Tickets — Explains fashion week is generally invite-only and not open to the public, so tickets and press passes are limited due to venue space.
• Fashion Weeks — Fashion weeks — the recurring series of seasonal fashion week events and how they fit together worldwide.
• Fashion Weeks Around the World — Covers fashion weeks held twice a year in New York, London, Milan and Paris and in many other cities across Africa, Asia, Europe and Oceania.

Y

• Fashion YouTube — Fashion on YouTube — how the video platform is used for fashion content, creators and shopping.
• Fashion YouTube Channels — Fashion YouTube channels — the channels covering hauls, styling, reviews and fashion commentary.
• Fashion YouTube Influencers — Fashion influencers on YouTube — the creators who shape trends and front brand campaigns on video.
• Fashion YouTube Video Ideas — Fashion video ideas for YouTube — the topics fashion creators film, from hauls to tutorials.
• Fashion YouTubers — Fashion YouTubers — the creators who make fashion videos and build audiences on YouTube.

Z

• Fashion Zipper — The zipper in fashion — how zippers work, their history, and their use on garments, bags and boots.
• Fashion Zodiac — Fashion by zodiac sign — style suggestions matched to the signs of the zodiac.
• Fashion Zombies — Zombie fashion — the zombie look in costumes, Halloween dressing and popular culture.