antifashion

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ fashion.

Noun

antifashion (usually uncountable, plural antifashions)

1. Any fashion that is intentionally contrary to the mainstream.
   • 1995, Toby Fischer-Mirkin, Dress code: understanding the hidden meanings of women's clothes:

     Antifashion as a means of social defiance goes back to Marie Antoinette, the dandies, the bohemians of Lautrec's Paris...

   • 2009, Tiantian Zheng, Red lights: the lives of sex workers in postsocialist China:

     Hostesses' sartorial practice manifests some of the attributes generally associated with the antifashion style of punk, hippie, and other subcultures.

Translations

any fashion that is intentionally contrary to the mainstream

• Portuguese: antimoda f

Adjective

antifashion (not comparable)

1. Opposed to fashion.

Translations

opposed to fashion

• Portuguese: antimoda