Do fashion trends really matter?

Trends are something that gets picked up by people for 2 to 3 years max. It's a general direction in which fashion develops and moves.

Fashion trends are dominated by Hollywood and Bollywood celebrities plus social media influencers who are constantly on the lookout for new bold, adventurous and daring statements of fashion that have just been introduced in the market.

What is here now may be gone tomorrow...it refers to fashion's flickering and unpredictable nature.

Trends are transient and forever ahead moving.

But trends can also be cyclical. What was in trend a few decades ago like bootleg or bell-bottomed pants from the seventies can return to dominate the  fashion scene like they did in the early 2000s..but with slight alterations and modifications to make it more modern and suitable for the current generation

Other examples of trends are Madhuri Dixit's green and white lehenga from Hum Aapke Hain Kohn which became the rage to own for the middle and upper-middle-class people of the entire Indian subcontinent in the 90s.

Madonna's choice and announcement of yoga as her preferred mode of exercise was a trend that was picked up by the entire world in the late 90s and early 2000s and stayed in fashion for a good few years

The Beatles mop top hairstyle was in vogue and trend for a number of years in the early sixties 

Trends help fashion forecasters predict what will take over next in the years or months to come in fashion also

Trends make fashion exciting, interesting alluring and worth experimenting on.

If there were no trends there would be no fashion...trends are an essential part and parcel of fashion which makes them a constantly evolving mirror to the changes and progression made by societies worldwide in a certain period.

They reflect the position of women in society at a particular time..the economic status of a country and the cultural changes and metamorphosis taking place in various societies across the globe.