I'm associated with fashion — extremely sweet or saucy (8)
I believe the answer is:
immodest
'saucy' is the definition.
Both the answer and definition are adjectives. Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'i'm associated with fashion extremely sweet' is the wordplay.
'associated with' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'fashion' becomes 'mode' (synonyms).
'extremely' means to remove the middle letters (only the extremes of the word are used).
'sweet' with its middle taken out is 'st'.
'im'+'mode'+'st'='IMMODEST'
'or' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for immodest that I've seen before include "Swift proposal was not" , "Brazen" , "Lacking due decency" , "blowing its own trumpet" , "Cheeky" .)