Meanings
nounantifashion (usually uncountable, plural antifashions)
plural antifashions
- uncountableusuallyAny fashion that is intentionally contrary to the mainstream.
Antifashion as a means of social defiance goes back to Marie Antoinette, the dandies, the bohemians of Lautrec's Paris...
1995, Toby Fischer-Mirkin, Dress code: understanding the hidden meanings of women's clothes1 more example
Hostesses' sartorial practice manifests some of the attributes generally associated with the antifashion style of punk, hippie, and other subcultures.
2009, Tiantian Zheng, Red lights: the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China
adjectiveantifashion (not comparable)
- not comparableOpposed to fashion.
Origin
Translations
Portuguese antimoda, antimoda
- antimodaany fashion that is intentionally contrary to the mainstream
- antimodaopposed to fashion
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