Fashion Design on a Global Scale

Fashion Design on a Global Scale

Holly Miller

BA 420 01E

Elva Resendez

5 March 5, 2014

Abstract

Women began emerging in the fashion industry in the late nineteenth century, redefining the role of women by creating a fashion sense that depicted the way women actually are, not how a man defined woman. With innovation in the fashion world, women around the world began changing the fashion industry, locally and globally. In large fashion countries such as France and America, the fashion market started reflecting the role of woman defined by women. In smaller urban cities, such as Berlin, young entrepreneurial women started fashion design. The fashion industry shifted from being only large designers to having the urban city designers as well. However, the entrepreneurs were influenced by the American and French designers. As fashion designers became more global, there came a problem with protecting the intellectual property rights. As the problem continues, more laws and regulations are being created worldwide to protect the fashion forward ideas of these multinational designers, and the local young entrepreneur women. Then the twentieth came with technology advances changing the fashion world. It shifted the fashion industry from intrinsic to global fashion capitalism.

“Fashion is one of the essential arts of civilization” (Azuma), and women spend a lifetime trying to paint her own style. Someone can tell a lot about a woman by the way she dresses; her fashion sense can be a statement of her role in society. Women share their experience, as women, through fashion design, but it has only been since the late nineteenth century that women have started becoming fashion designers. Before then, men dominated the fashion design industry, not really reflecting the true role of women in society. Only women of upper class dressed fashionable to social events, but as the end of the nineteenth century approached, women of all classes began to dress casual, as women...