Hooray for a new year's list that doesn't feel like a cheap throwaway! This year, one of our favorite publications, the French quarterly WAD Magazine, has taken on the ambitious project of creating a comprehensive urban fashion dictionary, one that includes more than 500 fashion industry terms, trends, brands, shops, models, designers, and, as their blog states "all those who we believe are urban-fashion scene’s key actors, the scene that’s fascinated and excited us over this past decade." The behemoth of a directory is formatted alphabetically in both English and French, and is truly a testament to the past ten years of the fashion world, released in December to celebrate WAD's own 10th anniversary.

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