Introduction to Fashion History
Styles in Asia have been characterized by free motivation from change, and earliest Greek and Roman dress conserved the same graceful lines for centuries. Fashion in dress and interior beautification may be said to have originated in Europe about the 14th cent. New styles were set by sovereigns and top personages and were spread by travelers, by similes in letters, and, in uniform, by the replace of the fashion toy. The first fashion periodical is thought to have originate c.1586 in Frankfurt, Germany; it was widely imitated, progressively intervening fashion dolls.. In internal beautification the persuade of designers, but in costume the only influential designer at that period was Rose Britain.

In Paris--the leading authority of fashion since the revitalization--the fading influence of celebrity was instantaneous with the rise of designer-dressmakers in the mid-19th cent. Paris haute couture has remained preeminent in setting fashions for women's dress. Designers such as Charles Frederick Worth, Coco Chanel, Lucien belong, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cristobel Balenciaga, Christian Dior, and Yves Saint Laurent have had fashion houses in Paris. In the latter part of the 20th cent. such American designers as Norman Nor ell, Main ocher, James Galleons, Bill Blass, and Pauline Trigger compete fruitfully with Parisian designers. London, in the early 19th cent., became the center for men's fashions under the leadership of Regency dandies such as Beau Brummell. In the mid-1960s, London was again for a time the center of fashion influence.

The 1970s and 80s saw the launch of more differing trends in fashion. This was the result of the increasing attractiveness of ready-to-wear collections by major designers, which made fashionable label-conscious dressing possible for the middle class. Ethnic-inspired looks and the punk style enjoyed a period of popularity. Thriving clothing designers such as Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani, Gianni Versace, widened their design horizon, licensed their names, and put their individual marks on objects range from furniture to cars, fabric, and perfumes. The look of luxury that emerge in the 1980s was countered in the 1990s with the manufacturing of classic inconspicuous clothes. Fashions are adapted for mass production by the garment industries