Fashion Lingo: Global Traveller Chic

25/10/10

Global Traveller Chic

Global Traveller Chic is all about trippy colours and the kind of scraps of fabrics from Bangkok night markets that first-year university students think make fabulously chic wall-hangings.
The pseudo-ethnic hippy nonsense that even Jade Jagger tossed into the trash some years ago has come back to haunt us. If you see a girl a girl in acid yellow and a trustafarian bobbly hat, you're looking at GTC.

Published on The Guardian

Fashion quote

"Shakespeare managed to accurately describe the entire human condition using simple English, so we're certain the fashion industry can do the same to describe a pair of trousers"

"It's now easier to understand Sanskrit than some of the words commonly used by commentators within the fashion industry to describe garments."

(Debenhams spokeswoman Lizzie Singleton)

The lingua franca of the fashion world is „fashionese“ or „fashion speak“. Originally it was the language of the fashion pack - the designers, stylists, journalists and models,- made to keep the little people out.