An almost militant, but ultimately false, commitment to an issue that is prominent in the modern world. Fashionsist care deeply for as long as a whole week about an issue considered fashionable.
Fashionism is characterised by a devoted and often misinformed obsession with an issue that has either featured in the tabloid news or has caught the attention of a fellow fashionist.
Famous fashionists include Bonno of U2, Angelina Jolie and Madonna.
See also: Fashionist.
Fashionism is characterised by a devoted and often misinformed obsession with an issue that has either featured in the tabloid news or has caught the attention of a fellow fashionist.
Famous fashionists include Bonno of U2, Angelina Jolie and Madonna.
See also: Fashionist.
Alex: Have you seen Mark Kitchen's obsession with Global Warming recently?
RJ: For real? Shit, I didn't know he bought into fashionism too!
RJ: Man, Elaine sure does complain about Women's Rights.
Alex: Yeah, it's just fashionism, it has no lasting importance, it'll blow over.
RJ: For real? Shit, I didn't know he bought into fashionism too!
RJ: Man, Elaine sure does complain about Women's Rights.
Alex: Yeah, it's just fashionism, it has no lasting importance, it'll blow over.
by T3H F4SH1ON1S7S November 19, 2008
by Oh Shit I'm Dead January 8, 2005
Fashionable adj. - fashion, noun - fashion, verb
Today this word seems to mean "anything that's too hideous and freaky to even wear on the catwalk - too freaky and garish for even Vivienne Westwood or John Galliano to contemplate showing".
It also means stuff that 5 years ago was being ignored in charity shops and jumble sales as being too frumpy and out-of-date.
Not so long ago, people would look at the shit that walked down the catwalk and just hang their mouth open cuz it was so godawful weird.(BTW - this definition almost exlusively applies to women of course. We were told, "oh the styles will be watered down before it gets to the shops for ordinary mortals to try to fucking figure out how to wear."
So by the time it got to the shops, it was almost unrecognisable as being associated with anything seen on the catwalk. But it would still be different enough to terrorise women into thinking that if they don't wear it, they won't look cool, or if they do wear it, they will look silly and foolish. What to do??
Of course, every season brings new colours and accessories, so that nothing goes with anything else you have bought in the last 6 months - oh how we just lamely accept and buy without question! Everything totally different so they make more and more money from these stupid people too dumb to figure out what the hell's going on, or if they are smart enough, to fucking apathetic to care and scared to look uncool.
This definition is quite extreme but most people will recognise this issue. Most are sensible enough to not obsess over their clothes as such, but there are many who do.
So, to get round this problem, these days the catwalk principle applies in reverse. You take any combination of items of clothing, the more they clash with each other the better (ex - red and green tartan jodpurs which gather at the waist, tucked into blue cowboy boots with gold effect, very wide crocodile belt, orange tank top with pink glitter edging, and a wooly hat in the shape of a cow's udder- I won't even get started on the accessories).
This way of dressing is in many ways a backlash to fashion fascism about what to wear with what etc. But it is becoming dangerously fashionable now meaning, "you can look like everything was thrown together by a colour blind myopic nerd, without thought or looking in a mirror, but it still has to look like constructed in a meticulous and well thought-out way but stil looks as if it was not".
Jesus.
Today this word seems to mean "anything that's too hideous and freaky to even wear on the catwalk - too freaky and garish for even Vivienne Westwood or John Galliano to contemplate showing".
It also means stuff that 5 years ago was being ignored in charity shops and jumble sales as being too frumpy and out-of-date.
Not so long ago, people would look at the shit that walked down the catwalk and just hang their mouth open cuz it was so godawful weird.(BTW - this definition almost exlusively applies to women of course. We were told, "oh the styles will be watered down before it gets to the shops for ordinary mortals to try to fucking figure out how to wear."
So by the time it got to the shops, it was almost unrecognisable as being associated with anything seen on the catwalk. But it would still be different enough to terrorise women into thinking that if they don't wear it, they won't look cool, or if they do wear it, they will look silly and foolish. What to do??
Of course, every season brings new colours and accessories, so that nothing goes with anything else you have bought in the last 6 months - oh how we just lamely accept and buy without question! Everything totally different so they make more and more money from these stupid people too dumb to figure out what the hell's going on, or if they are smart enough, to fucking apathetic to care and scared to look uncool.
This definition is quite extreme but most people will recognise this issue. Most are sensible enough to not obsess over their clothes as such, but there are many who do.
So, to get round this problem, these days the catwalk principle applies in reverse. You take any combination of items of clothing, the more they clash with each other the better (ex - red and green tartan jodpurs which gather at the waist, tucked into blue cowboy boots with gold effect, very wide crocodile belt, orange tank top with pink glitter edging, and a wooly hat in the shape of a cow's udder- I won't even get started on the accessories).
This way of dressing is in many ways a backlash to fashion fascism about what to wear with what etc. But it is becoming dangerously fashionable now meaning, "you can look like everything was thrown together by a colour blind myopic nerd, without thought or looking in a mirror, but it still has to look like constructed in a meticulous and well thought-out way but stil looks as if it was not".
Jesus.
Fashion obsessive "Oh my god I MUST find out where she got her outfit! It's so cool!"
"oh really? Where is this Salvation Army shop then? And hopefully it's very very expensive as I love paying a lot for shit that's made for nothing in sweat shops so that there is more profit for the men who design/own/run most of the fashion industry! Cool!"
"oh really? Where is this Salvation Army shop then? And hopefully it's very very expensive as I love paying a lot for shit that's made for nothing in sweat shops so that there is more profit for the men who design/own/run most of the fashion industry! Cool!"
by MissyM May 2, 2005
Fashionism is a government ruled by those with the best sense in fashion. They hold fashion contests instead of elections or a royal family.
by Christian Writer September 1, 2018
v. 1. to transfix and hold spellbound by an irresistible outfit, ie there is lots of fashionating stuff going on in New York this week.
Fashionated is derived from the Latin fashionare, which loosely translates to “what the fuck is that dude wearing?”
by terriblog October 1, 2009
Something so damn hideous it must be changed every season to spare our eyes, unfortunately not our wallets.
Anyone still wear parachute pants? Yeah - didn't think so. There goes a hundred bucks dimwit, fashion at its best I'm sure.
by Standing Down August 25, 2007
by you-aint-no-nan-nigga November 3, 2003