Fashion design is the applied art dedicated to clothing and lifestyle accessories created within the cultural and social influences of a specific time.

It is considered to have a built in obsolescence usually of one to two seasons. A season is defined as either autumn/winter or spring/summer.

Nowadays, even though French, British, Japanese and American fashion are the top in style, Italian fashion is considered the most important and elegant in design and it has led the world of fashion since the 1970s and '80s.