First Year Experience: FM 108/109 & 100

E-text book for FYE class

Learn about how the fashion industry works to find where in this massive industry you belong. You'll learn about how and why fashion evolves and changes, the materials used and who creates them, the companies who make apparel, and how fashion marketing helps companies sell their products. Spotlight features focus on careers, innovators, and businesses, using industry examples to show real world situations. A Top 100 Apparel Designers section gives you a quick list of who's who in fashion history, while a glossary and key terms throughout make sure you know what you're talking about. Key Features Include: -Fully updated throughout to introduce sustainability practices ingrained in the industry -More than 250 color images of designers, fashion collections, retailers, and more -Covers textile trends and innovations as well as omni-channel retail practices In Fashion STUDIO - Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips - Review concepts with flashcards of terms and definitions - Watch videos that bring chapter topics and career opportunities to life - Enhance your knowledge with chapter exercises Teaching Resources - Instructor's Guide including tips for integrating the STUDIO into a course, sample syllabi, teaching methodology, and grading resources - A Test Bank offering exams for each chapter - PowerPoint presentations provide a framework for lectures and include color images from the book - First Day of Class: Learning with STUDIO PowerPoint presentation

Fantagraphics celebrates The Flapper Queens, a gorgeous oversized hardcover collection of full-color comic strips. In addition to featuring the more well-known cartoonists of the era, such as Ethel Hays, Nell Brinkley, and Virginia Huget, Eisner award-winning Trina Robbins introduces you to Eleanor Schorer, who started her career in the teens as a flowery art nouveau Nell Brinkley imitator but, by the '20s, was drawing bold and outrageous art deco illustrations; Edith Stevens, who chronicled the fashion trends, hairstyles, and social manners of the '20s and '30s in the pages of The Boston Globe; and Virginia Huget, possibly the flappiest of the Flapper Queens, whose girls, with their angular elbows and knees, seemed to always exist in a euphoric state of Charleston.

Costing for the Fashion Industry is a practical, easy-to-use guide to the manufacture, sourcing and risk management methods essential to make a new fashion business venture financially viable. Each chapter focuses on a theme, such as entrepreneurship, time constraints, global awareness and new markets and sourcing, alongside practical exercises and detailed industry case studies to put the theory into context. This second edition explores capital investment decisions, the changing nature of cost and the importance of global awareness and new markets, as well as expanded coverage of internationalization strategies for SMEs.

This collection of essays explores the issues and influence of the fashion industry, including lack of ethnic and size diversity in the design room and on the catwalk. Examines the impact of merchandise knockoffs on revenue, branding, and overall quality, as well as poverty and abuse in the new sweatshops. Discusses the relationship between eating disorders and the Size Zero fashion culture, and looks at green design as part of the fashion industry's future.

Using the field of material culture as its methodological departure point, this Palgrave Pivot explains the strategic advantages that brands can set in place when their executives are fully in command of how to move from strategy to tactics. Specifically, it studies the brands, their products and signature experiences as well as their relationship with the consumer in an attempt to define the greater powers that have pushed fashion labels in and out of fashion. It focuses on case analysis of specific luxury fashion brands and attempts to link those to the greater context of material culture while also elaborating on theoretical discussions. Bridging theory and practice, this book explores the relationship between creative strategy and cultural intelligence.