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fashion victim

A person who places too much value on popular trends and styles. It's one thing to have good taste in clothing, but it's another to be a fashion victim who always needs to be seen wearing popular brand names.

See also: fashion, victim

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The Revolution and its aftermath transformed the role of fashion in French society, as Chrisman-Campbell explains in the final section of Fashion Victims.

Fashion Victims: Dress at the Court of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

Ditto Sherman's impersonations and parodies of fashion victims, matrons, and other idiosyncratic types.

Cindy Sherman: Metro Pictures

THE problem with What not to Wear is not Tranny - sorry - Trinny and Susannah being such utter cows to the poor fashion victims (BBC3, Wed).

SHANE ON SCREEN: What not to Wear

The revolutionary British system would let fashion victims know if they looked like a stuffed turkey or a scarecrow.

Candid camera tells 'what not to wear'

Company editor Sam Baker said: "Cat Deeley knocking Posh off the top slot to win this Style Icon award shows that young British women aren't interested in being fashion victims.

The Cat's pyjamas; Showbiz Gossip

She said: 'Cat Deeley knocking Posh off the top slot to win this Style Icon award shows that young British women aren't interested in being fashion victims.

Cat beats Posh to the cream; Write stuff: Victoria signs books after losing her Style Icon crown to SM:tv Live's Deeley

HOT on the heels of her bandmate Jenny Frost's telly success making-under willing fashion victims in Snog, Marry, Avoid, Liz McClarnon is getting her own small screen starring role.

Liz is ready for TV; TheInsider

But try telling that to the many fashion victims in the audience bouncing along to their pop-punk merriment.

THE VIRGINS Cabaret Voltaire; live reviews

MINI-DRIVING fashion victims can now buy designer luggage to match their car.

Mini bags put other models in the shades

CALL us fashion victims if you must (but we may fall out).

Fashion: fashion bullseye! oops! Ker-ching!

At least that's what the fashion police would have us believe and naturally the fashion houses smell an opportunity to exploit some foolish fashion victims.

Clare McKeon's column: FLIPPIN' DEAR

Made according to the dictates of traditional sumi-e technique, which requires the artist to make quick, decisive strokes, these focus primarily on details such as beads of sweat and eyes so exaggeratedly thick-lashed that they recall A Clockwork Orange's ultraviolent fashion victims, the Droogs.

Yoshitaka Amano. (Reviews: New York)

It appointed Palmer Hargreaves Mint to establish Design Loake with 30 to 45-year-old men who are style-conscious, but not fashion victims.