Fashioner

fash·ion  (fshn)

n.

1. The prevailing style or custom, as in dress or behavior: out of fashion.

2. Something, such as a garment, that is in the current mode: a swimsuit that is the latest fashion.

3. The style characteristic of the social elite: a man of fashion.

4.

a. Manner or mode; way: Set the table in this fashion.

b. A personal, often idiosyncratic manner: played the violin in his own curious fashion.

5. Kind or variety; sort: people of all fashions.

6. Shape or form; configuration.

tr.v. fash·ioned, fash·ion·ing, fash·ions

1. To give shape or form to; make: fashioned a table from a redwood burl.

2. To train or influence into a particular state or character.

3. To adapt, as to a purpose or an occasion; accommodate.

4. Obsolete To contrive.

Idiom:

after/in a fashion

In some way or other, especially to a limited extent: She sings after a fashion.

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[Middle English facioun, from Old French façon, appearance, manner, from Latin facti, factin-, a making, from factus, past participle of facere, to make, do; see dh- in Indo-European roots.]

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fashion·er n.

Synonyms: fashion, style, mode, vogue
These nouns refer to a prevailing or preferred manner of dress, adornment, behavior, or way of life at a given time. Fashion, the broadest term, usually refers to what accords with conventions adopted by polite society or by any culture or subculture: a time when long hair was the fashion.
Style is sometimes used interchangeably with fashion, but like mode often stresses adherence to standards of elegance: traveling in style; miniskirts that were the mode in the late sixties.
Vogue is applied to fashion that prevails widely and often suggests enthusiastic but short-lived acceptance: a video game that was in vogue a few years ago. See Also Synonyms at method.