Timeless fashion, or classic fashion, implies that the design remains on the trend always. Timeless pieces are iconic and centerpiece. Timeless clothes, footwear, and accessories are of superior quality, time-tested design and patterns, and are usually expensive. Timeless fashion is not specific to pieces but to trends as well, like floral prints, faded jeans, and leather handbags, among others. These styles are still trendy and show no sign of becoming dated.
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Answer to Fast Fashion
Timeless fashion is an answer to fast fashion. Earlier only two fashion seasons were there. Now, fast fashion has blown up 2 fashion seasons in 50 odd ‘micro seasons’. With a new design line launched every week, fast-fashion thrives on constantly making customers feel behind-trend and out-of-style. Its marketing campaigns create a sense of urgency and fear of missing the latest trends in minds of customers and push them for impulse buying. Fast fashion turns out tons of cheap, low-quality merchandise, contributing to lower customer satisfaction and is a cause of environmental pollution.
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This model is unsustainable in every way; environment, compensation to factory workers, and your wallet. After spending big bucks a customer ends up with a truckload of cheap goods which are destined for landfills. And the worst part about fast fashion is, that, unlike timeless pieces, it cannot be handed down or worn year after year because it is now no more in fashion. So even if the clothing item is perfectly fine, its unique or sometimes odd or risqué shape instantly reminds the onlooker that it is from last season. The thing with timeless pieces is that even if someone recognizes that (suppose a hat is from Victorian or Edwardian times) it is seen as good taste and valued for its antiquity and good quality.
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Timeless items, as the name suggests, are supposed to last long. On the other hand, fast fashion is made to fall apart after one wash. Though people are now buying 4 times more clothes than they use to buy in the early 90s or 2000, they are only keeping each item only half as long. Royal families of Europe, corporate moguls, and people coming from old money usually invest in a timeless fashion and recycle and upcycle them every once in a while. Rather than investing in worthless clothes, invest in pre-owned designer items. Some best pieces for your timeless collection can be Hermes Birkin and Kelly handbags, cashmere sweaters, Chanel suits, and the likes.
