Definition of "fashion" []

• The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion. (noun)
• Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion. (noun)
• The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion. (noun)
• Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion. (noun)
• A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion. (noun)

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• "According to a recently opened exhibition at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, "The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion," the muse lives on as the fashion model who inspires masses of women to dress in ways that capture the spirit of the age."
• "Such in all times has been the rise and decline of fashion; and the absurd mimicry of the _citizens_, even of the lowest classes, to their very ruin, in straining to rival the _newest fashion_, has mortified and galled the courtier."
• "With this in mind, Yeomans is ­teaming up with Bafta sponsors Lancôme and British red-carpet queen Kate Winslet to host a getting-to-know-each-other ­cocktail party for the fashion and film worlds on the first day of London ­fashion week, at which British ­designers such as Christopher Kane and Roksanda Ilincic will get the chance to chat up nominees in the hope of ­dressing them for the red carpet."