新视野大学英语视听说教程 2 Unit 6-3

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Task 2: How is fashion decided¹?
Fashion designers design and make fashionable clothes for men and women. They deign² trends and create new styles. Paris has been the traditional center of world fashion, though recently British designers have had great influence in setting³ new styles, and so have certain designers in the United States and Italy. French designers guard the secrets of their new designs until their collections are shown to the public. Then pictures of the styles are published in newspapers and magazines all over the world. People from many countries travel to Paris to buy the clothes and copy the newest ideas. In January they go to see the spring clothes; and in July, to see the autumn designs. Many dress manufacturers⁴ from other countries buy the original clothes of the famous French designers. They then take them back to their own sewing rooms, where the clothes are copied and made up in great numbers. That’s why you may be able to buy in your town the clothing that is in the latest style without paying a very high price for it. Other manufacturers use the Paris styles simply as a starting point for their own ideas. Still others may adapt only a part of the French design into their own styles.
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Fashion designers             design fashionable clothes,

                            begin trends and new styles,

                            and their work is copied all over the world.

Paris                        is the center of the world fashion, where the secrets of the new designs are guarded until they are shown to the public

People and manufacturers      come to Paris to buy and copy new clothes, in January and July. Then the clothes are copied and made up in large numbers, for which one does not have to pay a high price.

                             Other manufacturers use Paris styles simply as a starting point for their own ideas.

                             Still others adapt only a part of the French design