An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 338.4 C641o
ISBN: 9781591844617
Publication Date: 2012-06-14
The work evaluates the costs of low priced clothing while tracing the author's own transformation to a conscientious shopper, a journey during which she visited a garment factory, learned to resole shoes, and shopped for local, sustainable clothing.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 338.4 T584w
ISBN: 9781118277553
Publication Date: 2012-04-24
When journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that would take him from Honduras to Bangladesh to Cambodia to China and back again.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 338.9 S797
ISBN: 9781610916103
Publication Date: 2015-04-13
In State of the World 2015, the flagship publication of The Worldwatch Institute, experts explore hidden threats to sustainability and how to address them.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 363.7 M136u
ISBN: 9780865477483
Publication Date: 2013-04-16
William McDonough and Michael Braungart envision the next step in the solution to our ecological crisis: We don't just use or reuse and recycle resources with greater effectiveness, we actually improve the natural world as we live, create, and build.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 746.92 E115w
ISBN: 9780762451272
Publication Date: 2014-03-11
Have you ever wondered, "How can I inherently do good while looking good?" Wear No Evil has the answer, and is the timely handbook for navigating both fashion and ethics.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 381.456 B873c
ISBN: 9781783600700
Publication Date: 2015-02-12
Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and clothing recycling are interconnected.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 646.6 C268v
ISBN: 9781604689358
Publication Date: 2018-06-01
With limited supplies, a limited budget, and limited time, anyone can create attention-grabbing details with visible mending--35 examples and more than 300 photos make it easy to get started
Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers' provides designs, skill sets, and creativity, to get you that job. In new images throughout, the book shows examples of croquis books, spec and flat drawings, and visual research presentations from both fashion professionals and students.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 791.43 J227s
ISBN: 9780240819266
Publication Date: 2011-08-31
This fully revised second edition features new and expanded chapters that explore current and innovative approaches to creating a design-tech portfolio, including branding, social networking, and traditional and interactive e-portfolios
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 746.92 S534f
ISBN: 9781474252928
Publication Date: 2017-02-23
Fashion Buying uniquely looks at what fashion buying entails in terms of the activities, processes and people involved - from the perspective of the fashion buyer.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 746.92 K881f
ISBN: 9782940496235
Publication Date: 2014-09-25
Readers will gain a thorough understanding of how the retail model operates in an effort to continually capture the ever-changing market, as well as an insight into corporate social responsibility (CSR) and brand sustainability.
Fashion Design
Fashion History / Social and Psychological Aspects of Dress
Call Number: Main Library Reserves Apparel Merchandising - 4 hours
ISBN: 9780857851352
Publication Date: 2013-05-23
This new edition of a bestselling textbook is designed for students, scholars, and anyone interested in 20th century fashion history. Accessibly written and well illustrated, the book outlines the social and cultural history of fashion thematically, and contains a wide range of global case studies on key designers, styles, movements and events.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 391.009 F711d
ISBN: 9781501180064
Publication Date: 2021-02-09
A "sharp and entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) exploration of fashion through the ages that asks what our clothing reveals about ourselves and our society.
Call Number: Main Library Reserves Apparel Merchandising - 4 hours
ISBN: 9780759121485
Publication Date: 2014-10-30
The clothes we wear tell stories about us—and are often imbued with cultural meanings specific to our ethnic heritage. This concise A-to-Z encyclopedia explores 150 different and distinct items of ethnic dress, their history, and their cultural significance within the United States.
This lively survey of 150 years of fashion covers everything from Haute Couture to the High Street, and developing fabric technology from silk to fleece. From Coco Chanel to Armani and Alexander McQueen, Breward explores fashion as a cultural phenomenon.
Call Number: Main Library Circulating - 746.92 F248
ISBN: 9780756698355
Publication Date: 2012-10-01
From the extravagance of Ancient Egypt, through the legendary fashion houses of Chanel and Dior, to the latest cutting-edge labels, this gorgeous collection of costume and dress shows how fashion reflects people and places, and captures the times in which they lived
Over the last 180 years designers have propelled fashion from an elite craft into a cornerstone of popular culture. This brilliantly written guide to the lives and collections of 55 iconic fashion designers draws on the latest academic research and the best of fashion journalism, including the authors' own interviews with designers.
Call Number: Main Library Reserves Apparel Merchandising - 4 hours
ISBN: 9781566569767
Publication Date: 2014-08-06
With readable, highly-informative, and entertaining text--coupled with stunning photography--this book offers valuable insights into a profession which, unlike any other social body, is determined as much by its origins as by its economic context.
Call Number: Main Library Reserves Fashion Design - 4 hours
ISBN: 9781609018955
Publication Date: 2014-03-13
Fashion Law provides a concise and practical guide to the full range of legal issues faced by a fashion company as it grows from infancy to international stature.
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