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  • Essay / The Barcelona Trend - 1325

    The more things change, the more they tend to stay the same. Years may pass and many things may look different, but most things remain as they were centuries ago, even if they may be slightly changed. The Barcelona chair has shown its face over the last eight decades, never changed and barely reformed, the common Barcelona trend is making a comeback in the 21st century. A trend, an easy entity to follow, today's trends have however had a déjà vu effect. on today's society. Many fashion and design trends have already been seen and realized. This time, they have re-emerged in recent years and improved slightly to suit the trend followers of the current times. Trends such as jeans have spanned the years and many have followed the form. From working class jeans to crazy cowboy bootlegs and of course the rebel years, until today considered the casual era of jeans. The trends originated in the era of “Ancient Rome, clothing was simply animal skins and grasses, but quickly developed into fabric during the Roman era. the Greek and Roman periods. (Kimberley Heit, 2012) “Men and women draped their bodies with cloth.” Gradually, a common trend developed that "women draped up to five layers of fabric at a time", and this trend was followed soon after. Kimberley stated that: “it was not until the 1900s that trends began and grew more rapidly” (Kimberley Heit, 2012). Nowadays, according to Hung Tran, “a person is employed to discover local and global trends, this person is called as trend forecasters, they predict why and how trends emerge or reappear and how that specific trend will be introduced in the long term. (Hung Tran, 2013.) A trend forecaster will determine what the current trends are, such as music, literature, film and art, etc. and when...... middle of paper ......n.com/ pages/faithful to design. [Accessed April 15, 2014]Anonymous. 2014. Barcelona® Chair | Mound. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.knoll.com/product/barcelona-chair. [Accessed April 15, 2014]Anonymous. The Barcelona chair by Mies van der Rohe | The JetSetRnv8r. 2014. Vintage furniture – real or fake? The Barcelona chair by Mies van der Rohe | The JetSetRnv8r. [ONLINE] Available at: http://jetsetrnv8r.wordpress.com/2008/10/26/vintage-furniture-%E2%80%93-real-or-fake-mies-van-der-rohe%E2% 80%99s-barcelona-chair/. [Accessed April 15, 2014]Anonymous. 2014. Guide to classic chairs in Barcelona. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.barcelona-tourist-guide.com/en/shopping/barcelona-chair.html. [Accessed April 15, 2014]Amanda Dunsmore. 2014.Mies Vna DE Rohe. [ONLINE] Available at: http://www.ngv.vic.gov.au/Spanish_Ed/artwork_files/pdfs/artsheet_miesvanderrohe_LR_FINAL.pdf. [Accessed April 15 2014