The A to Z of the fashion industry /
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 u...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
Scarecrow Press,
2009.
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| Series: | A to Z guides ;
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
| 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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| Item Description: | 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 EBSCO eBook Academic Comprehensive Collection North America |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (lxii, 416 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-414). |
| ISBN: | 9780810870468 0810870460 |
