FASHION

• Fashion trends can mainly be interpreted in three ways: the trickle-down theory, the bottum-up model, or the field of fashion theory.
• A. Smith and G. Simmel are recognized as the leading theorists of trickle-down theory.
• Charles W. King forged the concept of “trickle across”.
• Subcultural styles are often victims of the mechanism of incorporation.
• Avant-garde fashion refers to a very particular group of designers who, in the 1980s and 1990s, challenged the definition of fashion itself, as Yohji Yamamoto, Rei Kawakubo or Martin Margiela.