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The evolution of fashion



Fashion is the consumer trend of today. Fashion is composed of several styles that may have been influenced in several ways.
It is a transient and conspicuous manner to behave and especially in dress or hairstyles.
To create style, fashion designers with five basic elements: color, silhouette, fall, texture and music.
The fashion is used as a sociocultural phenomenon that expresses society's values - uses, customs and habits - at that moment.
But the styling and design are complementary elements of the concept fashion, each with their roles clearly defined.
Fashion is a system that monitors the weather and clothing, which integrates the use of simple clothes in day-to-day to a larger context, political, social, sociological.



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Fatima Lopes (Funchal, March 8, 1965) are a Portuguese fashion designer.

She’s from Madeira, Fatima Lopes grew up in the city of Funchal. As a child showed an interest in fashion and during her teens, unhappy with the clothing that was sold in Funchal, began creating clothes for herself. Thanks to her fluency in foreign languages, worked as a tour guide in Funchal for a travel agency.
In 1990 she moved to Lisbon in order to pursue a career as a stylist. In this city with a friend opened a shop called "Verses", which sold mainly clothes from international designers. In 1992 the store's name changed to "Fatima Lopes." In September the same year he participated as a creative fashion show held in a monastery in Lisbon, where his proposals were well received.

In 1994 shows her clothes for the first time at the "Salon du Prêt-à-Porter Feminin" in Paris. The following year participated in the great national fashion event, "the Portugal Fashion." Between 1996 and 1998 Fatima began designing shoes and bags addressed to a female audience wants to either the male audience.

In 1996 she opens its first international store, located in the city of Paris.

Since 1999 she participates twice a year at Paris Fashion Hall, currently the only Portuguese present. In 2000 causes much media attention by parading in the French capital's most expensive bikini in gold and diamonds, valued at about one million dollars.

In 2002 she was invited by Mattel to create a Barbie doll, doll and decided to play on the diamond and gold bikini she wore in Paris. In 2003 she opened hes first clothing store in the United States of America, located in Los Angeles.