practice listening #3: lessons from fashion's free culture
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These are vocabulary words from Johanna Blakley's TEDTalk.TRANSCRIPT
Practice Listening #3
Lessons From Fashion’s Free Culture
Vintage
•representing the high quality of a past time
Balenciaga
Replicate
•to repeat, duplicate, or reproduce, especially for experimental purposes
Fashionista
•A very fashionable person, especially one that works in the fashion industry
Illegal
•forbidden by law or statute
Intellectual Property
•property that results from original creative thought, as patents, copyright material, and trademarks
Logos
Utilitarian
•having regard to utility or usefulness rather than beauty, ornamentation, etc
Peers
•a person who is equal to another in abilities, qualifications, age, background, and social status
Zeitgeist
•the spirit of the time; general trend of thought or feeling characteristic of a particular period of time
Riffing Off of
Palette
•the range of colors used by a particular artist
Trends
•the general course or prevailing tendency; drift
Top-Down
Notorious
•widely and unfavorably known
Counterfeit
•made in imitation so as to be passed off fraudulently or deceptively as genuine; not genuine; forged
Knock-off
Copyright Protection
Bottom Line
•the ultimate result; outcome
Innovative
•to introduce something new; make changes in anything established
Anecdote
•a short account of a particular incident or event, especially of an interesting or amusing nature
Coherent
•logically connected; consistent: a coherent argument