Business Librarian
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.