fashion plate noun2 •A picture, usually a full-page advertisement, showing the latest fashion in clothing.By turning the skirt and adding a ruffle of rhyme you would hardly recognize it as vers de societe with neatly shod feet and a fashion-plate illustration. — 1917 •A person who dresses in especially stylish fashions.I'm no fashion plate, and don't dress to impress. formsfashion plates · fashion-plates