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Curated Booklists - Business & Economics

Fashion / January 2023

With eyes on the future, innovators in the fashion industry are taking different approaches to creating sustainable fashion. Upcycling is one trend businesses are using to combat waste highlighted in Vogue Business feature on a company that focuses on repurposing denim (Webb, 2022). For January 2023, here are 12 books from JMU’s print and electronic collections that examine the fashion industry. 

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Apparel Production Terms and Processes

Defines materials and terms relating to the mass production of raw materials, design and product development, garment details and component parts, fit, patternmaking, pre-production operations, assembly, production and manufacturing, labeling regulations, testing and quality control, inspection, finishing and packaging.

A Practical Guide to the Fashion Industry

Highlighting the skills and considerations needed to manage products, introduces key processes such as product development, the supply chain and branding to help you quickly get to grips with the business side of fashion.

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.

The Chinese Fashion Industry

Less than three decades ago, when the Chinese bought cloth or clothes, they would have had to use a government-issued coupon. Today the Chinese fashion industry is one of the most dynamic in the world - it not only supplies fashions to the increasingly discerning domestic market, but also provides one-third of the clothing sold in the global market. How did this phenomenal transition come about?

AI in Fashion Industry

Discusses recent developments in fashion forecasting, developing a 'framework of AI-based fashion forecasting' and validates the framework with a qualitative case study of the world's first fashion intelligence company based in Bengaluru, India.

The Fashion Business

Provides a clear understanding of the different business strategies and models across all markets of the fashion industry. Based on examples from international organizations - including Off-White, Nike and Zara, as well as leading luxury brands - the author identifies 13 core market sectors and explores the strategies applied in each.

Strategic Fashion Management

Blends theory with a variety of examples and uses 18 case studies to help bring to life contemporary topics faced by senior executives. The analysis is highly global in nature and aims to accelerate the strategic skills required to navigate the industry and contribute to a firm's growth.

Artificial Intelligence for Fashion

Investigates the ways in which AI is impacting every part of the fashion value chain, starting with product discovery and working backwards to manufacturing. Walks you through concepts, such as connected retail, data mining, and artificially intelligent robotics.

Circular fashion supply chain management

This e-book discusses papers on the topic of circular fashion supply chain management.

Supply Chain Management and Logistics in the Global Fashion Sector

The ways in which we design, make, transport and then discard clothes has a huge social and environmental impact. This book covers responsible business practices and sustainability in the fashion industry from the raw fibre stage, through production, to the point of customer consumption.

Remarkable Retail

Physical retail isn't dead--but boring retail is! Remarkable Retail equips the savvy retailer with eight essential strategies to deliver a powerful customer experience.

Making Jeans Green

Consumers spend approximately $93 billion on denim products every year. This consumption comes at a great cost, with thousands of litres of fresh water, hazardous chemicals and energy contributing to just one pair of jeans, leaving the environment and the industry vulnerable to pollution and climate change.