ADJ
- current, latest, modern, new
- growing
- changing, passing
- changing fashions in education This theory, though recent, is more than a passing fashion
- high
- The store sells everything from sports clothes to high fashion
- designer
- the influence of Italian designer fashion on the clothes industry
- female, street, youth
- architectural, cultural, intellectual
VERB + FASHION
- be, be in
- She wore a powdered wig, as was the fashion of the day. Black is always in fashion
- become, come into
- Pessimism has become the fashion. When did flares first come into fashion?
- fall out of, go out of
- Careful spending has gone out of fashion in our consumer society
- be out of
- come back into
- be back in
- introduce, set, start
- He set a fashion for large hats
- follow, keep (up) with, keep pace with
- I've given up trying to keep up with the latest fashions
FASHION + VERB
- change
- watching how fashions change over the years
FASHION + NOUN
- statement
- Flared trousers were a fashion statement of the seventies
- model
- She started her career as a fashion model
- show
- shoot
- photographers at fashion shoots
- magazine
- scene
- fresh interest in the New York fashion scene
- capital
- Paris, the world's fashion capital
- business, industry, market, trade, world
- Her summer collection took the fashion world by storm
- company, house, label
- one of the most successful fashion houses in Milan
- retailer, shop
- design, photography
- designer, editor, photographer
- accessory, clothes, garment
- victim
- this season's must-have accessories that no fashion victim will be seen without
PREP
- after the ~ of
- She spoke in French after (= copying) the fashion of the court
- ~ for
- the fashion for long dresses
- ~ in
- Fashions in art come and go
PHRASES
- changes in fashion, the fashion of the day, the height of fashion
- The palazzo represents the height of architectural fashion for the mid-17th century
- the world of fashion
- household names in the world of fashion and design
ADJ
- true …
- The inspector insisted the meeting be held, in true spy novel fashion, in the open air
- normal, orthodox, usual
- Application for the course can be made in the normal fashion
- conventional, time-honoured, traditional
- They celebrated their win, in time-honoured fashion, by spraying champagne everywhere
- typical
- We had just gone out when, in typical fashion, the rain came down
- limited
- He has a small vocabulary and is only able to express himself in a limited fashion
- positive
- no uncertain
- Karpov struck back in no uncertain fashion to win the seventh game
- meaningful
- parrot
- Students become frustrated with learning verbs parrot fashion
- best (often ironic), exemplary
- batons ready in best police fashion
- civilized
- appropriate
- cavalier
- controlled, orderly, organized, regular, systematic
- ad hoc, desultory, haphazard, piecemeal, random, roundabout
- arbitrary
- straightforward
- logical, predictable
- linear
- Costs and revenues are assumed to behave in a linear fashion
- easy, leisurely, relaxed
- The descent of the footpath starts in easy fashion
- dramatic, spectacular
- bizarre, peculiar
- mysterious
- friendly
- jocular
- business-like
- democratic
PREP
- after a ~
- So they became friends, after a fashion (= to some extent)
- in a ~
- Why are they behaving in such a ridiculous fashion?
- in … ~
- The troops embarked in orderly fashion