fad suggests caprice in taking up or in dropping a fashion.
last year's fad is over
rage and craze stress intense enthusiasm in adopting a fad.
Cajun food was the rage nearly everywhere for a time
crossword puzzles once seemed just a passing craze but have lasted
Example Sentences
Noun the new vogue for scarves His art seems to be enjoying a vogue these days. When did Thai food come into vogue? That style went out of vogue years ago.
Recent Examples on the Web
Noun
Why do certain things take off — a pop song, a jean cut, a movie genre — then fall out of fashion, only to mysteriously come back in vogue years later? Seth Abramovitch, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Sep. 2022 The increasing number of debate-less races is also an indicator of this polarized moment in American politics where vying for undecided voters is less en vogue than appealing to one's base. Rick Klein, ABC News, 13 Sep. 2022 Since then, coverage of Kate’s fashion has become a reliable bet for magazines, particularly as affiliate links have come into vogue. Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022 Ever since the Persian came into vogue during the Victorian era, this fluffy cat has become the most popular pedigreed cat in the United States — and perhaps even the world. Corinne Sullivan, Woman's Day, 6 Sep. 2022 Turns out, the perfect hands-free lighting solution was just coming into vogue in the 80s. The Editors, Outside Online, 23 Aug. 2022 Still, the trendlines are clear: Bundles are back in vogue. Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Sep. 2022 Aldridge favored a relatively realistic approach — a striking contrast to the more declamatory, posturing star turns then in vogue. Celia Wren, Washington Post, 21 June 2022 Slender ribbon chokers, often in black, regained vogue during the 1860s and ’70s. Nancy Macdonell, WSJ, 24 Aug. 2022
Verb
That was when Lú, a founding member of the House, first learned to vogue—an opportunity to embrace their gender identity.Time, 29 June 2021 Her dream of the park includes a range of verdant and functional spaces: a paved area where people can vogue and hold rallies, a flower garden in tribute to Ms. Johnson, a greenhouse and an apiary for bees.New York Times, 20 Mar. 2021 If Krakoa, the living situation, is the real protagonist, what can anyone do but vogue and be festooned like Zora or the Fantastic Four, who look oddly Victorian with their looping aiguillettes? Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 21 Mar. 2021 Over the course of its short but rich run time, the 1991 film becomes a snapshot of a subculture steeped in history, hierarchies, rivalries and lingo (shade, mopping, vogueing and more). Jason Bailey, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2020 The spindly young man in dark-rimmed glasses bent his leg and fell dramatically to the floor — a vogueing move known as a dip, invented decades ago in New York’s underground L.G.B.T. ballroom scene. Thomas Rogers, New York Times, 9 Mar. 2020 And behind the irreverent strutting, vogueing and steely catwalk attitude is the show’s runway choreographer, Twiggy Pucci Garçon. Kish Lal, Billboard, 23 July 2019 Thursday: Learn how to vogue at Lincoln Center’s Midsummer Night Swing. Max Falkowitz, New York Times, 26 June 2019 Skaters and punks, after all, practically invented the word poser and shoe vogueing for your ‘Gram doesn’t exactly align with skate’s sense of low-key authenticity. John Vorwald, GQ, 4 May 2018 See More
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle French, action of rowing, course, fashion, from voguer to sail, from Old French, from Old Italian vogare to row