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Book Fashion Unraveled   Second Edition

Download or read book Fashion Unraveled Second Edition written by Jennifer Lynne Matthews-Fairbanks and published by Fairbanks Publishing LLC DBA Porcelynne. This book was released on 2010-12-10 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion Unraveled offers an inside look into the operations of a small fashion design business. This book offers tips, tools of the trade and valuable insight into the industry. This acts as a guide for developing a customer, market and collection. The book introduces the reader to sourcing and production, as well as explains marketing concepts. Whether the reader is an entrepreneur, designer, student or craftsperson, this book will guide one through the business implementation process. Fashion Unraveled introduces an in-depth look at creating a costing model, solid pricing and realistic budgeting. Fashion Unraveled is user friendly and was designed for the creative mind. Chapters are laid out with definitions and web links located in the sidebars of the book for ease in use. The second edition features over 400 pages of information transforming this into the "must read" resource for every designer entrepreneur. This book offers a new case study feature, following a small fashion business through their business launch, including their business plan. Fashion Unraveled also features several designer interviews, including a Q&A with British designer Timothy James Andrews and couturier Colleen Quen.

Book Fashion Unraveled   Second Edition

Download or read book Fashion Unraveled Second Edition written by Jennifer Lynne Matthews and published by East Bay Fashion Resource. This book was released on 2010-12-08 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthews offers an inside look into the operations of a small fashion design business, providing tips, tools of the trade, and valuable insight into the industry.

Book Unraveled

    Book Details:
  • Author : Maxine Bedat
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2021-06-01
  • ISBN : 0593085973
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Unraveled written by Maxine Bedat and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award A groundbreaking chronicle of the birth--and death--of a pair of jeans, that exposes the fractures in our global supply chains, and our relationships to each other, ourselves, and the planet Take a look at your favorite pair of jeans. Maybe you bought them on Amazon or the Gap; maybe the tag says "Made in Bangladesh" or "Made in Sri Lanka." But do you know where they really came from, how many thousands of miles they crossed, or the number of hands who picked, spun, wove, dyed, packaged, shipped, and sold them to get to you? The fashion industry operates with radical opacity, and it's only getting worse to disguise countless environmental and labor abuses. It epitomizes the ravages inherent in the global economy, and all in the name of ensuring that we keep buying more while thinking less about its real cost. In Unraveled, entrepreneur, researcher, and advocate Maxine Bédat follows the life of an American icon--a pair of jeans--to reveal what really happens to give us our clothes. We visit a Texas cotton farm figuring out how to thrive without relying on fertilizers that poison the earth. Inside dyeing and weaving factories in China, where chemicals that are banned in the West slosh on factory floors and drain into waterways used to irrigate local family farms. Sewing floors in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are crammed with women working for illegally low wages to produce garments as efficiently as machines. Back in America, our jeans get stowed, picked, and shipped out by Amazon warehouse workers pressed to be as quick as the robots primed to replace them. Finally, those jeans we had to have get sent to landfills--or, if they've been "donated," shipped back around the world to Africa, where they're sold for pennies in secondhand markets or buried and burned in mountains of garbage. A sprawling, deeply researched, and provocative tour-de-force, Unraveled is not just the story of a pair of pants, but also the story of our global economy and our role in it. Told with piercing insight and unprecedented reporting, Unraveled challenges us to use our relationship with our jeans--and all that we wear--to reclaim our central role as citizens to refashion a society in which all people can thrive and preserve the planet for generations to come.

Book Fashion Branding

Download or read book Fashion Branding written by Kaled K. Hameide and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Fashion Branding Unraveled' introduces and explains the concept of brand and the process of brand development. The work clarifies misconceptions, introduces new concepts, and proposes a step-by-step roadmap for developing an effective brand, all within the context of the fashion industry. Using an easy-to-understand approach, relevant examples, and case studies, it applies the theories and concepts covered, such as 'mass customization' and 'M-branding,' to a variety of industry segments, from luxury brands to private labels. The text includes an examination of the latest technologies, their applications, and-most important-their effects on the future of branding.

Book Brand Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Joseph Hancock
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2016-03-10
  • ISBN : 1501300024
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book Brand Story written by Joseph Hancock and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-03-10 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brand/Story: Cases and Explorations in Fashion Branding, Second Edition examines how a retailer, manufacturer, or designer label uses storytelling to grab a consumer's interest. For consumers, branding tells the story and creates the identity for a product, a person, and a company. Using 10 case studies on such notable brands as Levis and Vivienne Westwood, Brand/Story looks at what a fashion brand is about and why companies advertise the way they do. It enables the reader to think critically about branding-both the medium and the message-and not simply take advertisements and brands at face value. New to this edition: ~Features 7 new brands including LuluLemon, Warby Parker, MAC Cosmetics and Topshop/Topman ~Over 40 new color images including advertisements for Ralph Lauren, Vera Wang, and Dolce & Gabbana ~Updated interviews with industry professionals including Nancy Mair, General Merchandise Manager, Burlington Stores and Jill Walker-Roberts, President of Walker-Roberts Consulting ~New Go Outside! exercises provide readers with scenarios in which they can apply what they learn to other brands they encounter ~Chapter objectives and discussion questions allow the reader to fully engage with the content Instructor Resources: ~Instructor's Guide and Test Bank provide suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom ~ PowerPoint presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion

Book Unraveled

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  • Author : Maggie Sefton
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2011-06-07
  • ISBN : 1101515961
  • Pages : 210 pages

Download or read book Unraveled written by Maggie Sefton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The newest yarn from the national bestselling author of Skein of the Crime. Spring is in the air of Fort Connor, Colorado-a time of new beginnings for the House of Lambspun knitters. But for fellow knitter Jennifer's new real estate client, it is his end. He's been murdered and Kelly Flynn is left unraveling a tangle of clues. This may prove to be her most challenging project yet.

Book Fashion Branding Unraveled

    Book Details:
  • Author : Kaled K. Hameide
  • Publisher : Fairchild Books
  • Release : 2024-09-05
  • ISBN : 9781501374494
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Fashion Branding Unraveled written by Kaled K. Hameide and published by Fairchild Books. This book was released on 2024-09-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion Branding Unraveled, Second Edition explains the process of brand development. The book clarifies misconceptions, introduces new concepts, and proposes a step-by-step roadmap for developing an effective brand, all within the context of the fashion industry. Essential concepts such as positioning, values, relevance, identity, and brand valuation are closely examined. Throughout the book, discussions are supported by real-life examples and industry-based case studies. In the Second Edition there are three new chapters focusing on eCommerce, fashion and technology, and ethics in the fashion industry. STUDIO Features Include: -Self-assessment quizzes to test yourself on key principles -Flashcards to study vocabulary Instructors Resources -Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom, supplemental assignments, and lecture notes -PowerPoint® presentations include images from the book and provide a framework for lecture and discussion

Book Managing Fashion

Download or read book Managing Fashion written by Kaled K. Hameide and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-19 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fashion industry is a multibillion-dollar global industry with a variety of organizational structures and a multitude of challenges. Such scope triggered the recent rise in management programs in the U.S. and Europe aiming to produce and train young managers to meet such global and diverse challenges. Managing Fashion covers the fashion business with a twist – a management twist. Its goal is to tackle the topics from a fashion manager perspective referencing relevant management concepts and theories, thus offering a deeper and more practical dimension to the issues addressed. It offers a balanced mix of fashion and management, theory and application, as well as creating an opportunity for analysis and critical thinking. Discussions throughout the book are supported by specially developed case studies and relevant examples taken from the fashion industry. It is an opportunity to expose the fashion student or reader, as well as aspiring fashion managers, to a more practical approach to fashion theories and issues. Managing Fashion will serve as a core text for Fashion Studies, Fashion Entrepreneurship, and Fashion Merchandising majors as well as for special business degrees and management certificates targeting the fashion industry.

Book Bare Essentials

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jennifer Lynne Matthews - Fairbanks
  • Publisher : East Bay Fashion Resource
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 9780983132844
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Bare Essentials written by Jennifer Lynne Matthews - Fairbanks and published by East Bay Fashion Resource. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second edition includes improved drafting and grading directions, as well as directions for use with CAD software. These new steps simplify the process from the first edition.

Book Look to Lazarus

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Meyers
  • Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
  • Release : 2011-10-13
  • ISBN : 1614233985
  • Pages : 231 pages

Download or read book Look to Lazarus written by David Meyers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Department stores were a midwest institution, none more prominent in downtown Columbus Ohio than F&R Laazarus & Company. For more than 150 years, F&R Lazarus & Company was the heart of downtown Columbus. Headed by the "first family of American retailing" with an eye for flair and a devotion to the customer, this uniquely midwestern institution won the hearts and minds of a community. Look to Lazarus draws on the memories of those who worked and shopped in this grand emporium to tell the unlikely story of a love affair between a city and a store. It was a love affair born of the solemn promise "You can always take it back to Lazarus, no questions asked."

Book Clothing the Spanish Empire

Download or read book Clothing the Spanish Empire written by M. Vicente and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-12-25 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the 1780s in the city of Barcelona alone, more than 150 factories shipped calicoes to every major city in Spain and across the Atlantic. This book narrates the lives of families on both sides of the Atlantic who profited from the craze for calicoes, and in doing so helped the Spanish empire to flourish in the eighteenth century.

Book Unraveled

    Book Details:
  • Author : Leanne Hatch
  • Publisher : Holiday House
  • Release : 2021-08-17
  • ISBN : 0823447839
  • Pages : 42 pages

Download or read book Unraveled written by Leanne Hatch and published by Holiday House. This book was released on 2021-08-17 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A baby blanket is a very special gift, but what happens when you grow up and it comes undone? Is it time to let go, or to make something new? While Cole's mama waits for his arrival, she knits him a baby blanket. After he is born, the bond between baby and blanket is instant. So much so that as Cole grows older, the two are inseparable, until the day he notices the blanket is slowly coming unraveled. Cole tries playing with it the way he always had but it doesn't work and he decides to let go of what is now a bundle of yarn. But Mama isn't quite ready to let go and knits the yarn into something new--a sweater--delighting Cole. The bond is once again instant. Leanne Hatch brings this story of growing up and taking things with us in new ways to life with her warm text and richly textured art. A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Book Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Adults  Second Edition

Download or read book Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Adults Second Edition written by Julian D. Ford and published by Guilford Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-30 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative reference on complex traumatic stress disorders (CTSDs) and their assessment and treatment has now been significantly revised with more than 75% new material reflecting a decade of advances in the field. Leading experts delve into ways to understand, engage, assess, and treat adults with complex trauma histories, whose symptoms often include but may go well beyond those of posttraumatic stress disorder. The volume presents cutting-edge theory and research on CTSDs, considers diagnostic controversies, and identifies core elements of effective, culturally responsive treatment. Established and emerging therapies specifically tailored to this population are described and illustrated with vivid case examples. Other highlights are chapters on transtheoretical treatment, the crucial role of professionalism and training, and recognizing and managing vicarious traumatization. New to This Edition *Incorporates major advances in research and clinical practice. *Chapters on additional evidence-based individual treatments: prolonged exposure therapy, cognitive therapy, cognitive processing therapy, brief eclectic psychotherapy, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing therapy, narrative exposure therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy, emotion-focused therapy, and the TARGET recovery model. *Chapters on additional evidence-based group and conjoint family therapy models: attachment-based couple therapy and integrated treatment of co-occurring CTSDs and substance use disorders. *Chapters on promising treatments: treatment for structural dissociation, experiential/somatotherapy approaches, mindfulness approaches, and complementary healing therapies. See also Drs. Ford and Courtois's authored book, Treatment of Complex Trauma, which presents their own therapeutic approach for adult clients in depth, and their edited volume Treating Complex Traumatic Stress Disorders in Children and Adolescents.

Book Unraveled

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gennifer Albin
  • Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
  • Release : 2014-10-07
  • ISBN : 0374316465
  • Pages : 305 pages

Download or read book Unraveled written by Gennifer Albin and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Autonomous. Independent. Dangerous. They tried to control her. Now she'll destroy them. Things have changed behind the walls of the Coventry, and new threats lurk in its twisted corridors. When Adelice returns to Arras, she quickly learns that something rotten has taken hold of the world, and now Cormac Patton needs her to help him reestablish order. However, peace comes at a terrible price. As the Guild manipulates the citizens of Arras, Adelice discovers that she's not alone, and she must let go of her past to fight for mankind's future. She will have to choose between an unimaginable alliance and a deadly war that could destroy everyone she loves.

Book Dress Cultures in Zambia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Karen Tranberg Hansen
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2023-04-30
  • ISBN : 1009350358
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book Dress Cultures in Zambia written by Karen Tranberg Hansen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-30 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on half-a-century of research in Zambia and regional scholarship, Karen Tranberg Hansen offers a vibrant history of changing dress practices from the late-colonial period to the present day. Exploring how the dressed body serves as the point of contact between personal, local, and global experiences, she argues that dress is just as central to political power as it is to personal style. Questioning the idea that the West led fashion trends elsewhere, Hansen demonstrates how local dress conventions appropriated western dress influences as Zambian and shows how Zambia contributed to global fashions, such as the colourful Chitenge fabric that spread across colonial trading networks. Brought to life with colour illustrations and personal anecdotes, this book spotlights dress not only as an important medium through which Zambian identities are negotiated, but also as a key reflector and driver of history.

Book Contemporary Fashion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf
  • Publisher : Saint James Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 776 pages

Download or read book Contemporary Fashion written by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf and published by Saint James Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reference book covering individual designers and fashion houses that have been active throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Informative essays mirror the many facets of the fashion world.

Book The Princess Revolt

Download or read book The Princess Revolt written by Cathy O'Neill and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disney’s Twisted Tales meets the Half Upon a Time trilogy in this “lively” (School Library Journal) first book of a new fantasy series following a young girl who discovers that fairy tale characters are real when she becomes the target of vindictive princesses who want their Happily Ever Afters. Cia Anderson hasn’t slept in ten days, but she doesn’t feel one bit tired. She knows that something is up, even if no one but her best friend believes her. Hundreds of pairs of shoes have appeared in her locker, small woodland animals are trailing her, and the only boy she’s ever had a crush on has been quarantined with a mysterious illness. There’s even talk of closing her middle school. Something strange is going on. Cia discovers that she has accidentally upset some fairy tale characters who are trying to find their happily ever afters in the modern world. Desperate to set things right, Cia enlists the help of Cinderella’s stepsister, gets kidnapped by Snow White’s dwarves, and makes a deal that she might regret with the Evil Queen—all while trying to stay one step ahead of the furious princesses who want her dead. Turns out there’s nothing meaner than a fairy tale character who can’t find her prince charming.