The A to Z of the fashion industry / Francesca Sterlacci, Joanne Arbuckle.

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Sterlacci, Francesca

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TextSeries: A to Z guides ; 96.Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (lxii, 416 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrationsContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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9780810870468
0810870460

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: A to Z of the fashion industry.DDC classification:

746.9203 22

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TT494 .S84 2009eb

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Contents:

Series editor's foreword / Jon Woronoff -- Preface -- Acronyms and abbreviations -- Chronology -- Introduction -- THE DICTIONARY -- Appendixes: 1. Fashion magazines; 2. Trend and forecasting magazines and services; 3. Periodicals, newsletters, and directories; 4. Trade shows; 5. Major trade associations and organizations; 6. Fashion and textile museums; 7. Top fashion schools; 8. Size ranges -- Bibliography -- About the authors.

Summary: This reference volume examines the origins and history of the billion-dollar fashion industry. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations. Today, fashion is one of the biggest businesses in the world, with hundreds of billions of dollars in turnover and employing tens of millions of workers. It is both a profession, an industry, and in the eyes of many, an art.

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Hardcover 2008 ed. had title: Historical dictionary of the fashion industry.

"This book will trace the historical evolution of the fashion industry as well as the events, innovations, people and companies that helped shape the fashion industry as we know it today"--Preface

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-414).

This reference volume examines the origins and history of the billion-dollar fashion industry. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and hundreds of cross-referenced entries on designers, models, couture houses, significant articles of apparel and fabrics, trade unions, and the international trade organizations. Today, fashion is one of the biggest businesses in the world, with hundreds of billions of dollars in turnover and employing tens of millions of workers. It is both a profession, an industry, and in the eyes of many, an art.

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