Practice listening #3: Lessons from Fashion's Free Culture

Practice Listening #3

Lessons From Fashion’s Free Culture

Vintage

•representing the high quality of a past time

Balenciaga

Replicate

•to repeat, duplicate, or reproduce, especially for experimental purposes

Fashionista

•A very fashionable person, especially one that works in the fashion industry

Illegal

•forbidden by law or statute

Intellectual Property

•property that results from original creative thought, as patents, copyright material, and trademarks

Logos

Utilitarian

•having regard to utility  or usefulness rather than beauty, ornamentation, etc

Peers

•a person who is equal to another in abilities, qualifications, age, background, and social status

Zeitgeist

•the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time

Riffing Off of

Palette

•the range of colors used by a particular artist

Trends

•the general course or prevailing tendency; drift

Top-Down

Notorious

•widely and unfavorably known

Counterfeit

•made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; not genuine; forged

Knock-off

Copyright Protection

Bottom Line

•the ultimate result; outcome

Innovative

•to introduce something new; make changes in anything established

Anecdote

•a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature

Coherent

•logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument