Binding: Paperback
Description: 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.
Title: The Fashion Handbook
Author(s): Shaw David (Instituto Marangoni Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9780415255806
Pages: 244 Pages, 41 Tables, Black And White; 23 Line Drawings, Black And White; 4 Halftones, Black And Whi
Publication Date: 5/4/2006
Series: Media Practice
Category: Non-Graphic Art Forms