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  • noun Any fashion that is intentionally contrary to the mainstream.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ fashion

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Examples

  • Cabbages & Roses is known as a tiny family-run firm that produces fabrics, table linen and towels, as well as "antifashion" handmade clothing.

    Top stories from Times Online 2010

  • It's antifashion fashion, designed to look good and wear well over time -- like those navy blazers of his boyhood.

    SUITS US IF IT SUITS HIM 2007

  • And despite their antifashion stance, one of them was wearing a knit owl cap that looked almost identical to the ones that were in Anna Sui's show last night.

    NYT > Home Page By ERIC WILSON 2012

  • And there are plenty of antifashion statements, like

    NYT > Home Page By LESLIE CAMHI 2010

  • And there are plenty of antifashion statements, like

    NYT > Home Page By LESLIE CAMHI 2010

  • These rebellious, antifashion messages, blunted over decades of exposure, have been picked up, inevitably, by the world of high style.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • These rebellious, antifashion messages, blunted over decades of exposure, have been picked up, inevitably, by the world of high style.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • These rebellious, antifashion messages, blunted over decades of exposure, have been picked up, inevitably, by the world of high style.

    NYT > Home Page 2009

  • These rebellious, antifashion messages, blunted over decades of exposure, have been picked up, inevitably, by the world of high style.

    NYT > Global Home 2009

  • What they perhaps couldn't have foreseen were the other inferences that would accompany black — the S & M undertones, so brilliantly morphed into acceptable modern day fashion by designers like Helmut Lang; the overtly glamorous, sexually promiscuous cues metaphored by Versace's tight satin pants and Dolce & Gabbana's lacy dresses; the deeply "cool" androgyny of designers like Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo of Commes des Garcons and, more recently, the gothic mixed-media "antifashion" collections of the Rodarte sisters.

    The Wrong Sort of Black? Tina Gaudoin 2010

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