The evolution of fashion

Today, fashion is all over the world with famous designers, Coco Chanel, Marc Jacobs, Givenchy etc. Have you ever wondered who the first fashion designer was? His name was Charles Frederick Worth. He founded the House of Worth, one of the most famous fashion houses back in the 19-20th century. If it wasn't for him, fashion wouldn't be this famous today or might even be unrecognizable.

Charles Frederick Worth grew up in Bourne, Lincolnshire, England in 1825. As a young man he worked for London textile merchants, just long enough to know enough about fabrics and dress supplying. Most of Charles Frederick Worth work was to produce dresses for shops in Paris. Some of his first work was inspired by paintings he saw at The National Gallery.

He later became a leading salesman, and opened his own tiny dressmaking shop. He later became a professional dressmaker. His award winning designs were later displayed in the Great Exhibition in London (1851). This success leaded him to opening his own firm with business partner in 1855.  Charles Frederick Worth work opened up people's eyes to Paris with his fashion, which made it a showpiece of Europe.  If it wasn't for Charles Frederick Worth Paris wouldn't be the huge hit for fashion it is today.


Over the years fashion has evolved hugely. With new company's coming into the market, new ideas start emerging. Especially the clothing lines for teens. Every year the company's who design clothes for us are competing to think what will get the most attention/appeal. Certain trends may start in a weird way as well. Maybe someone that a lot of people look up to starts to wear a certain brand/clothing line and other people like the way it looks. More people will buy it and all of the sudden its a huge trend that everyone seems to wear. More and more people will buy it till everyone has it. But then all of the sudden the huge amount of popularity for that item drops. Company's then again have to find another idea that will appeal/get attention. This is how trends start and stop. Over the years you can imagine how many trends have come and gone, and how fashion was like back then and how it is now.

Fashion interests me a lot. I enjoy shopping and designing, and I want to become a designer when I grow up as well. I always thought how people came up with trends was so cool and I wanted to be able to do something like that one day as well. My uncle is a designer for Nike, so I get to work with him on designs that i'm interested in, and he helps me through the process of designing something. The process is much more complex then you would think and the tiny detail in every step is very important. Im so glad that Charles Frederick Worth lived out his passion, otherwise I wouldn't be able to live out mine.

Sources:
http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/wrth/hd_wrth.htm