Fashion Terms — the Apparel Search fashion terminology directory
A fashion collection generally refers to clothing produced for a particular season. Fashion is a popular style, and what is popular today may not be popular tomorrow — so designers build each season's collection as a coordinated whole: shared fabrics, colors and silhouettes that tell one story across many styles.
A fashion collection generally refers to clothing produced for a particular season. Fashion is a popular style and we all know that what is popular today may not be popular tomorrow. Therefore, the clothing industry is constantly designing new products. One way for clothing designers & brands to display product to buyers is to develop seasonal collections.
A fashion collection can be clothing, footwear, fashion accessories, or a combination of these items. It is essentially a selection of outfits and individual garments that fashion designers put together for the upcoming season. The collection of clothing, footwear or accessories, reflects the designers predictions of upcoming trends, including color, cut, line and proportion. The grouping of designs is what the design intends to sell to retailers.
Below are a few examples of some of the clothing collection categories.
Contemporary Fashion Collection
Clothing brand price points also play a role in categorizing collections. Learn about fashion industry price points that are used to categorize fashion collections.
Some of the top fashion designers will present their work at fashion week events. Others will show off their designs at apparel industry trade shows or to buyers at their showrooms. Others will display product online, in catalogs, or via marketing materials.
The term fashion collections is often used as a fashion synonym for the term "fashion line" or clothing line. However, a collection and a line does have differences. A clothing line refers to "all of the clothing" a fashion company produces for a specific category. A clothing collection generally refers to clothing produced for a particular season. Learn more about Clothing Lines.
If you are interested in seeing fashion designers present their collections at runway shows, you should attend a fashion week event.
A collection is a group of objects or works to be seen, studied, or kept together. A fashion collection is a group of clothing, shoes, handbags, accessories, etc., that are presented as a designers group of work for the season.
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A collection begins with a concept — a mood board of references, a fabric story and a color palette — long before a garment is sewn. Styles are then developed as a balanced range: statement pieces for the runway and press, commercial pieces in the fabrics and prices that will actually sell, and basics that carry the label's identity between seasons. Merchandisers check the range for gaps, buyers select their depth per style, and the collection's success is judged as a whole at sell-through.
The seasonal rhythm organizes the whole industry calendar: fabric fairs, fashion weeks, order deadlines and delivery windows all key off collections. Fall fashion, covered in this directory, is one season's collection story; forecasting, also here, is the discipline that predicts what future collections should contain.
A coordinated set of garments created for a particular season, designed to be shown and sold together, with common themes, fabrics and colors running through the styles.
Traditionally two main collections a year, spring/summer and fall/winter, with many brands adding resort and pre-fall collections and capsule drops between them.
A small, tightly edited collection of versatile pieces designed to work together — the capsule collections entry in the C section of this directory covers it.