no that's still not right: (had to look it up, it's one word)

far outwith the "contemporary fashions of the day".


Fashions and trends should be of interest to artists as there is a tendency among those who consider themselves serious to eschew trends deliberately as they consider them anti intellectual. But the best of artists, of course, are able to fashion fashion towards their own ends. i.e. they are not passive consumers of fashions, they fashion ... the verb ... to fashion.

What is new though, is the gathering existence of loads of opposing fashions. Everything from mods and rockers to punks and hippies ... to young wiz kid instrumentalists to old beardy nasal voiced fokies.

I'd say it's impossible to really eschew fashion. And I'd say that if we view fashions as merely traditions - shallow or with depth - then we should be more comfortable with them.