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• Clothing: Fashion, Fabrics & Construction

  

  Product DescriptionClothing: Fashion, Fabrics and Construction © 2008 is a comprehensive program that prepares students to make more informed decisions when buying and caring for clothes or examining career options. Clothing: Fashion, Fabrics &…. Click Here to Read More

• A Dictionary of Costume and Fashion: Historic and Modern

  

  ISBN13: 9780486402949Condition: NewNotes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product DescriptionFascinating, fact-filled compendium defines over 10,000 words associated with wearing apparel and fashion. From bateau necklines to trilbys and vamps, individual terms are assembled alphabetically in groups according to dress parts, fabrics, and other style categories….. Click Here to Read More

• The 1980s

  

  Product DescriptionFashion Sourcebooks is a series of beautifully illustrated paperbacks that surveys the development of women’s and men’s clothing from 1900 onward, with a volume devoted to each decade. Fashion in the 1980s tended toward the functional and the formal. The typical “power dressed” woman of the period wore her shoulders wide, her skirts short, and her heels high, while sometimes colorful and relaxed men’s fashions of the 1970s gave way to more conventional dressing. The…. Click Here to Read More

• Fashion: A Very Short Introduction

  

  ISBN13: 9780199547906Condition: NewNotes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed Product DescriptionFashion is a gigantic global industry, generating some three hundred billion dollars in revenue every year, and playing a significant role in the economic, political, cultural and social lives of a vast international audience. Despite this, and perhaps in part because of its…. Click Here to Read More

• Threads: My Life Behind the Seams in the High-Stakes World of Fashion

  

  Product DescriptionDesigners are great white sharks, and we roam the waters ourselves. We often pretend to like and admire each other, but sometimes we don’t even bother to fake it. The fashion industry is as hardworking, incestuous, and political as any other, and it’s virtually impossible, given the size of designers’ egos, to sincerely wish someone else well, because behind every false tribute is ‘It should have been me.’ So writes Joseph Abboud, who fell in love with style at five….. Click Here to Read More

• Merchandising of Fashion Products

  

  Product DescriptionTaking an integrative approach, this book provides a fresh and comprehensive look at merchandising across multiple levels within the industry pipeline. With emphasis on merchandising in the FTAR complex, the book looks at the entire process from strategic planning, to product creation, to product preparation, to a buyer’s shopping of the market weeks, to product delivery and presentation to the consumer. Using industry pictures and insider information, the book…. Click Here to Read More

• Artwear: Fashion and Anti-Fashion

  

  Product DescriptionA colorful survey of the often provocative and always highly creative relationship between art and fashion. A crocheted wool coat of exuberant textures and glowing colors, a dyed and pleated silk vest of baroque sensuousness, a headdress of ribbon intricately ruched in the shape of a leaping fish, an evening gown made from shredded dollar bills, a kimono that carries art appliquéd on its sleeve—these are just a few of the beautiful, imaginative, even surreal works…. Click Here to Read More

• The Dynamics of Fashion

  

  Product DescriptionThis text provides the foundation for a wide range of careers in the fashion business. Incorporating the experience of the author and her five earlier editions of Fashion Merchandising: An Introduction, this book covers product development, home fashions, retailing strategies, and examines how communication trends and technological advances impact the fashion world. The Dynamics of…. Click Here to Read More

• Sustainable Fashion: Why Now?: A Conversation Exploring Issues, Practices, and Possibilities

  

  Product DescriptionThrough a collection of essays, Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? examines the issues of sustainabilitythat designers, product developers, and consumers confront as they go aboutcreating, wearing, and recycling clothing and fashion. It also considers what sustainabilitymeans alongside fashion two seemingly contradictory concepts because fashionis all about change, and sustainability is all about preservation. Through a lively range ofperspectives, the contributors discuss new…. Click Here to Read More