Fashion & Interior Design

For courses in Introduction to the Fashion Industry, Survey of the Fashion Industry, Fashion Industry Overview, The Textile-Apparel-Fashion Industry, The Fashion Business, Introduction to Fashion Merchandising, and Fashion Retailing.

This long-time, best-selling book is the single most comprehensive fashion industry text available today. Written by authors with extensive industry ties and business savvy, the book provides an overview of the fashion sectors from a business perspective. The book meshes the excitement of the industry with the business view required to succeed in the industry. In its authoritative, lively, and easy-to-read approach, the book examines the various segments of the industry within the unifying context of the total fashion pipeline.

• NEW - Organizational scheme for the apparel production process.

  • Helps students follow the complex process more easily.

• NEW - Job search website listing.

  • Aids students during their job search.

• NEW - Expanded discussion on globalization of the business.

  • Helps students understand that this is no longer an industry that operates within our U.S. borders.

• Comprehensive overview of the industry—With an in-depth look at each segment.

  • Helps students understand how each segment functions as well as showing the relationships among segments.

• Bottom-line business perspective.

  • Helps students understand that although the industry may be glamorous, it exists as a business and must be profitable to succeed.

• Timely examples from author's extensive industry contacts.

  • Illustrates concepts being presented.

• Transforming nature of computer technologies on the industry.

  • Helps students understand how every aspect of the industry now employs computer technologies.

• Extensive resource information—Trade periodicals, trade associations, websites, etc.

  • Permits follow-up for additional and updated information as further changes occur.

• Readings.

  • Reinforces concepts.

• Glossary.

  • Provides vocabulary, including updated terms.

• Organizational scheme for the apparel production process.

  • Helps students follow the complex process more easily.

• Job search website listing.

  • Aids students during their job search.

• Expanded discussion on globalization of the business.

  • Helps students understand that this is no longer an industry that operates within our U.S. borders.

 1. The Business of Making and Selling Fashion.


 2. Principles of Fashion.


 3. Globalization of the Fashion Industry.


 4. The Consumer.


 5. The Materials of Fashion.


 6. The Women's and Children's Apparel Industry.


 7. The Menswear Industry.


 8. Fashion Accessories, Intimate Apparel/Undergarments, Cosmetics.


 9. Fashion Producers in Other Countries.


10. The Retailers of Fashion.


11. Auxiliary Fashion Enterprises.


Fashion Business Glossary.


Appendix A: Select World Wide Web Sites.


Appendix B: The Influential Designers.


Appendix C: Career Opportunities in Fashion.


Index.

Fashion Merchandising (Fashion)
Introduction to Fashion (Fashion)

Kitty G. Dickerson is Department Chairman and Professor, Department of Textile and Apparel Management, University of Missouri-Columbia. Dr. Dickerson is a Fellow in the International Textile and Apparel Association (ITAA) and has served as president of that group. She serves on the Board of Directors of Kellwood Company, a Fortune 700 apparel firm, which is the fifth-largest publicly owned apparel firm in the United States and the fifteenth-largest in the world, with sales well over $2 billion. She serves as Chairman of the Board's Corporate Governance Committee and is also a member of the Executive Committee and the Audit Committee. With previous experience in retailing, Dr. Dickerson's work focuses on the total softgoods industry. Also author of another Prentice Hall book, Textiles and Apparel in the Global Economy, Dr. Dickerson was an early leader in focusing on globalization in the industry. She was invited to write the apparel chapter for U.S. Industry and Trade Outlook, published by the U.S. Department of Commerce, and has been asked by Standard & Poor's to write various softgoods industry analyses. She was chosen as the Bobbin "Educator of the Year," an award presented through ITAA. Additionally, she was named to Textile World's "Top Ten Leaders" list and has received numerous other academic and industry awards. She has published widely in scholarly and trade journals and has been invited to address academic and industry groups in the United States and in other countries.

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