ABSTRACT

The Fashion Handbook is the indispensable guide to the fashion industry. It explores the varied and diverse aspects of the business, bringing together critical concepts with practical information about the industry’s structure and core skills, as well as offering advice on real working practices and providing information about careers and training.

Tracing the development of the fashion industry, this book looks at how fashion can be understood from both social and cultural perspectives. Each chapter contributes to the knowledge of a particular academic or vocational area either through building on existing research or through the dissemination of new research undertaken into specialist vocational disciplines.

The Fashion Handbook uses case studies, interviews and profiles and includes chapters written by recognised academics and fashion industry experts. Specialist topics include fashion culture, luxury brands, fashion journalism, fashion buying, design and manufacturing, retailing, PR and styling.

The Fashion Handbook includes:

  • a unique and wide overview of the fashion industry
  • chapters on specialist topics
  • contributions from recognised experts in both academia and the fashion industry
  • expert advice on careers in fashion retailing.

A must for all students of the fashion world.

chapter |2 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|9 pages

Analysing fashion

chapter 3|28 pages

Fashion design

chapter 4|26 pages

Global luxury brands

chapter 5|21 pages

Fashion clothing manufacture

chapter 6|28 pages

Fashion retailing

chapter 7|22 pages

Fashion buying and merchandising

chapter 8|18 pages

Fashion journalism

chapter 9|16 pages

Fashion PR and styling

chapter 10|18 pages

Careers in fashion retailing

chapter 11|3 pages

The future for fashion