Fashion statement

[nq:1]If you search "fashion statement" by internet, you can have a lot of results. Even so, I can not really get the meaning. What is it different from fashion itself?[/nq]
In many cases, I expect there is no difference. That is, sometimes "She's making a fashion statement" means no more than "She's dressed fashionably." Sometimes, however, there is more to it.
When one wears fashionable

masahiko wrote on 19 Apr 2004:
[nq:1]If you search "fashion statement" by internet, you can have a lot of results. Even so, I can not really get the meaning. What is it different from fashion itself?[/nq]
I've never been able to understand the meaning of the term "fashion statement". It is used frequently in sentences like "He's making a fashion statement by wearing a wide-brimmed felt hat

Raymond S. Wise wrote on 20 Apr 2004:
[nq:2]If you search "fashion statement" by internet, you can have ... get the meaning. What is it different from fashion itself?[/nq]
[nq:1]In many cases, I expect there is no difference. That is, sometimes "She's making a fashion statement" means no more ... chosen not just because they are the latest fashion, but because the wearer hopes they will "s

[nq:1]If you search "fashion statement" by internet, you can have a lot of results. Even so, I can not really get the meaning. What is it different from fashion itself?[/nq]
Making a statement is proclaiming something. In this case, it's a visual statement proclaiming that they are either being fashionable or trying to set a fashion. It is usually used to mean that the person is wearing someth

[nq:1]masahiko wrote on 19 Apr 2004:[/nq]
[nq:2]If you search "fashion statement" by internet, you can have ... get the meaning. What is it different from fashion itself?[/nq]
[nq:1]I've never been able to understand the meaning of the term "fashion statement". It is used frequently in sentences like ... know what it means. Probably that people who make fashion statements are those who wea

[nq:1]If you search "fashion statement" by internet, you can have a lot of results. Even so, I can not really get the meaning. What is it different from fashion itself?[/nq]
A "fashion statement" can be unfashionable. It usually means that the person is showing by the clothes that they wear that they identify with a particular group, subculture or cause, often a "counter-cultural" one, differe

[nq:1]Making a statement is proclaiming something. In this case, it's a visual statement proclaiming that they are either being fashionable ... wife may ask if I'm making a fashion statement. In this case, she means that I am not dressed fashionably.[/nq]
But Tony, if he feels that that *is* how people should dress on a Sunday morning, may answer "Yes" without irony. If he wants a fight, that

Steve Hayes filted:
[nq:2]If you search "fashion statement" by internet, you can have ... get the meaning. What is it different from fashion itself?[/nq]
[nq:1]A "fashion statement" can be unfashionable. It usually means that the person is showing by the clothes that they wear that they identify with a particular group, subculture or cause, often a "counter-cultural" one, different from th