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Author
Series
Publisher
CRC Press/Balkema
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (x, 107 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"This book is a comprehensive reference source that provides the state-of-the-art findings on many important emerging research issues related to retail supply chain management and optimization problems. The book takes an explicit systems approach, and discusses retail-led fashion supply chain optimization models, consumer utility driven fashion supply chain optimization models and fashion retail supply chain systems with information updating, as well...
Series
Publisher
Routledge
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvii, 206 pages)
Language
English
Description
The make-take-waste paradigm of fast fashion explains much of the producer and consumer behavior patterns towards fast fashion. The evolution from a two-season fashion calendar to fast fashion, characterized by rapid product cycles from retailers and impulse buying by consumers, presents new challenges to the environment, workplace and labour practices. This book provides a comprehensive overview of new insights into consumer behaviour mechanisms...
Author
Series
Publisher
Wiley-ISTE
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xxxiii, 195 pages ): illustrations.
Language
English
Description
The commoditization of goods, environmental pollution, relocation, the exploitation of cheap labor and encouragement to overconsume, these traits characterize the luxury fashion industry, whose economic growth continues to rise. This book examines the way in which the mediations of commercial luxury fashion allows this industry to present itself as something that is not exclusively commercial. These mediations are known as Re-presentation policies:...
7) Slaxx
Publisher
Shudder
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A possessed pair of jeans is brought to life to punish the unscrupulous practices of a trendy clothing company. Shipped to the company's flagship store, the killer jeans proceed to wreak carnage on staff who are locked in overnight to set up the new collection.
Author
Language
English
Description
Theodora Morgan is fashion royalty. Founder of a wildly popular online shopping service, she is one of the most successful businesswomen in the world, although she prefers to keep a low profile, especially in recent months. It was a year ago when the unthinkable struck her family: her husband, industry mogul Matthieu Pasquier, and their son were kidnapped and held for ransom - a nightmare that ended in tragedy. The case has gone cold, despite evidence...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 400 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Fashion photographers sold not only clothes but ideals of beauty and visions of perfect lives. Gross provides a rollicking account of fashion photography's golden age-- the wild genius, ego, passion, and antics of the men (and a few women) behind the camera, from the postwar covers of Vogue to the triumph of the digital image. He takes you behind the scene of revolutionary creative processes -- and the private passions -- of these visionary magicians....
10) The Battle of Versailles: the night American fashion stumbled into the spotlight and made history
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
310 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Conceived as a fundraiser for the restoration of King Louis XIV's palace, the world's elite gathered in Versailles' grand theater to view a fashion extravaganza of the best that French and American designers had to offer ... What they saw would forever alter the history of fashion. At the Battle of Versailles five Americans--Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass, Anne Klein, Halston, and Stephen Burrows--faced off against the five French designers considered...
Author
Publisher
LID Editorial Empresarial
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Primera edición.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations
Language
Español
Description
Crear una marca de moda no es coser y cantar. Todo lo contrario. Es necesario conocer a fondo el sector y todas sus peculiaridades, además de los problemas que pueden surgir en el camino y cómo solucionarlos. Por eso las autoras de este libro han decidido plasmar por escrito toda su experiencia y ayudar así a cualquier persona que desee crear su propia firma de forma eficaz, aprovechando al máximo su tiempo y su dinero, y logrando esquivar...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 208 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces Banana Republic's beginnings and rise to becoming an international retailer, describing how the founders applied imagination while upending business conventions to develop original merchandise and marketing innovations.
Author
Publisher
Gotham Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
viii, 240 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Part memoir, part business manual, and 100% juicy--the inside story of Juicy Couture, one of the most iconic brands of our times. While working together at a Los Angeles boutique, Pamela Skaist-Levy and Gela Nash-Taylor became fast and furious friends over the impossibility of finding the perfect T-shirt. Following their vision of comfortable, fitted T-shirts, they set up shop in Gela's one-bedroom Hollywood apartment with $200 and one rule: Whatever...
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A peek behind the backroom doors and into the reality of the fascinating inner workings and fabulous untold stories from Bergdorf Goodman's iconic history. Includes interviews from fashion designers, style icons, and celebrities such as Giorgio Armani, Dolce & Gabbana, Michael Kors, Susan Lucci, Joan Rivers, and more.
Author
Publisher
Apress
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
Learn how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being applied in the fashion industry. With an application focused approach, this book provides real-world examples, breaks down technical jargon for non-technical readers, and provides an educational resource for fashion professionals. The book investigates the ways in which AI is impacting every part of the fashion value chain starting with product discovery and working backwards to manufacturing. Artificial...
17) The collection
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
UK edition.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (390 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1947. A fashion empire rises from the ashes of war-torn Paris, run by the breathtakingly charming and thoroughly ruthless Paul Sabine. But behind the glamour and elegance lies a devastating secret that threatens to destroy the company's delicately built success. Sophisticated and contemporary in tone, this is a story about the price of success, set during a pivotal moment in France's history.
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