"¿Estar/Ser? de moda" - Error or different meanings?

Question

I recently used the phrase 'in vogue' for La palabra del día: el cutis and translated as: 'es de moda.'

I based this rendering on what I found when I looked up vogue in the dictionary:

• To be in vogue -> estar en boga, usarse mucho, ser de moda

But two native speakers whom I respect said it should be "está de moda".

Then I looked up the word moda the dictionary and found:

• estar de moda -> to be fashionable o in fashion

Is the dictionary wrong? OR Is there a difference in meaning? (Like "estar listo" vs "ser listo".)

Can someone enlighten me, Please?

Answer 1

best answer ever: in spanish we only have "estar de moda" it is the only correct way so I think simply the dictionary traslated wrongly

vote me

hans

Answer 2

estar to be

ser to be

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Answer 3

Actually, I have made a search and this has been surprising:

ser moda, o de moda.

1. locs. verbs. estar de moda.

this is the definition in the RAE.

So I made a search on the web and......

Resultados 1 - 10 de aproximadamente 31.100.000 de "es de moda

And this is a limited search. Terrible, jeje

Answer 4

HI chaparri, pues no, eso no es correcto, a veces el sentido es diferente, pero no en este caso. Es un error. ya decía yo...cómo habías hecho este error, pero claro, very misleading .