Meaning & use
fashion conscious
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Meaning
adjectivecomparable
paying close attention to current styles in clothes and appearance, and keen to look up to date.
Grammar: Can follow a verb or come before a noun: she is fashion conscious; a fashion-conscious crowd.
Patterns
- be fashion conscious
- fashion-conscious shoppers
My cousin is very fashion conscious and never wears the same jacket twice.
The shop targets fashion-conscious teenagers.
He became more fashion conscious after starting his new job.
Word forms
| comparative | more fashion conscious |
|---|---|
| superlative | most fashion conscious |
Common combinations
- fashion-conscious shoppers
- Fashion-conscious shoppers queued before the sale.
- fashion-conscious teenager
- Every fashion-conscious teenager wanted those sneakers.
- very fashion conscious
- He is very fashion conscious for a man who hates shopping.
- fashion-conscious consumers
- Fashion-conscious consumers expect new collections each season.
- increasingly fashion conscious
- Young men have become increasingly fashion conscious.
Synonyms and how they differ
- stylish
- Stylish describes how someone looks, whereas fashion conscious describes how much they care about trends.
- trendy
- Trendy suggests following the latest fads and can sound slightly mocking.
- image-conscious
- Image-conscious covers concern about overall impression, not only clothes.
Opposites
Word family
- fashion noun
- a popular style of clothing
- fashionable adjective
- popular at the moment
- fashionista noun
- a person who follows fashion closely
- conscious adjective
- aware of something
Commonly confused: fashion conscious or fashionable?
fashion conscious vs fashionable
Fashionable describes things that are in style, while fashion conscious describes the person who cares.
Practice
Which person is most likely to be fashion conscious?
Choose one answer.
A fashion conscious person watches trends before choosing clothes. The others show little interest in fashion.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “fashion conscious”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.