Fashion vs. Modern — What's the Difference?

Fashion is a form of self-expression and autonomy at a particular period and place and in a specific context, of clothing, footwear, lifestyle, accessories, makeup, hairstyle, and body posture. In its everyday use, the term implies a look defined by the fashion industry as that which is trending.

Of or relating to recent times or the present

The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior

Characteristic or expressive of recent times or the present; contemporary or up-to-date

Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode

Of or relating to a recently developed or advanced style, technique, or technology

Manner or mode; way

Avant-garde; experimental.

A personal, often idiosyncratic manner

Often Modern(Linguistics) Of, relating to, or being a living language or group of languages

Kind or variety; sort

One who lives in modern times.

Shape or form; configuration

One who has modern ideas, standards, or beliefs.

To give shape or form to; make

(Printing) Any of a variety of typefaces characterized by strongly contrasted heavy and thin parts.

To train or influence into a particular state or character

Pertaining to a current or recent time and style; not ancient.

(Archaic) To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion.

(history) Pertaining to the modern period (c.1800 to contemporary times), particularly in academic historiography.

(Obsolete) To contrive.

Someone who lives in modern times.

(countable) A current (constantly changing) trend, favored for frivolous rather than practical, logical, or intellectual reasons.

Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.

(uncountable) Popular trends.

New and common; trite; commonplace.

(countable) A style or manner in which something is done.

A person of modern times; - opposed to ancient.

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; workmanship; execution.

A contemporary person

(dated) Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding.

A typeface (based on an 18th century design by Gianbattista Bodoni) distinguished by regular shape and hairline serifs and heavy downstrokes

To make, build or construct, especially in a crude or improvised way.

Belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages;

(dated) To make in a standard manner; to work.

Relating to a recently developed fashion or style;

(dated) To fit, adapt, or accommodate to.

Characteristic of present-day art and music and literature and architecture

(obsolete) To forge or counterfeit.

Ahead of the times;

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house, of an altar, etc.; workmanship; execution.

Used of a living language; being the current stage in its development;

The prevailing mode or style, especially of dress; custom or conventional usage in respect of dress, behavior, etiquette, etc.; particularly, the mode or style usual among persons of good breeding; as, to dress, dance, sing, ride, etc., in the fashion.

Polite, fashionable, or genteel life; social position; good breeding; as, men of fashion.

Mode of action; method of conduct; manner; custom; sort; way.

To form; to give shape or figure to; to mold.

To fit; to adapt; to accommodate; - with to.

To make according to the rule prescribed by custom.

To forge or counterfeit.

How something is done or how it happens;

Characteristic or habitual practice

The latest and most admired style in clothes and cosmetics and behavior

Make out of components (often in an improvising manner);