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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Veronica ManlowPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc Imprint: Transaction Publishers Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.589kg ISBN: 9780765803986ISBN 10: 0765803984 Pages: 328 Publication Date: 15 July 2007 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsI: The Fashion Industry; 1: Clothing, Fashion, and Society; 2: The Emergence of the Fashion Industry; 3: The Fashion Designer; 4: Leadership in the Fashion Industry; 5: Organizational Culture in the Fashion Industry; II: Tommy Hilfiger USA, Inc.: A Case Study; 6: Charisma, Culture, and Representation at Tommy Hilfiger; 7: EpilogueReviews[A] top pick for college-level collections strong in fashion history and design... Not only art collections but business libraries as well will find it an important survey of how the presentation of fashion is influenced by social change. From fashion industry trends and leadership to the efforts of the fashion designer, Designing Clothes is an excellent, in-depth survey. --Midwest Book Review Anyone interested in the American clothing/fashion industry will find this book a helpful introduction to its unique history and culture. Extensive bibliography. Highly recommended. --B. B. Chico, Choice [A] top pick for college-level collections strong in fashion history and design... Not only art collections but business libraries as well will find it an important survey of how the presentation of fashion is influenced by social change. From fashion industry trends and leadership to the efforts of the fashion designer, Designing Clothes is an excellent, in-depth survey. --Midwest Book Review Anyone interested in the American clothing/fashion industry will find this book a helpful introduction to its unique history and culture. Extensive bibliography. Highly recommended. --B. B. Chico, Choice An outstanding book, beautifully combining classical theory, ethnography, and interviews. Must reading for anyone who wants to understand how clothes are designed and what this says about ourselves and the society in which we live. --William Helmreich, City University of New York Graduate Center Designing Clothes offers a variety of unique insider views into the alluring world of the fashion industry. Designers and their roles in fashion are described, not in the usual cliched ways, but in 21st century terms, as charismatic cultural arbiters. . . . [A]ccurately dispels some of the unrealistic mystique surrounding this powerful industry. --Francesca Sterlacci, FIT -[A] top pick for college-level collections strong in fashion history and design... Not only art collections but business libraries as well will find it an important survey of how the presentation of fashion is influenced by social change. From fashion industry trends and leadership to the efforts of the fashion designer, Designing Clothes is an excellent, in-depth survey.- --Midwest Book Review -Anyone interested in the American clothing/fashion industry will find this book a helpful introduction to its unique history and culture. Extensive bibliography. Highly recommended.- --B. B. Chico, Choice -An outstanding book, beautifully combining classical theory, ethnography, and interviews. Must reading for anyone who wants to understand how clothes are designed and what this says about ourselves and the society in which we live.- --William Helmreich, City University of New York Graduate Center -Designing Clothes offers a variety of unique insider views into the alluring world of the fashion industry. Designers and their roles in fashion are described, not in the usual cliched ways, but in 21st century terms, as charismatic cultural arbiters. . . . [A]ccurately dispels some of the unrealistic mystique surrounding this powerful industry.- --Francesca Sterlacci, FIT [A] top pick for college-level collections strong in fashion history and design... Not only art collections but business libraries as well will find it an important survey of how the presentation of fashion is influenced by social change. From fashion industry trends and leadership to the efforts of the fashion designer, Designing Clothes is an excellent, in-depth survey. --Midwest Book Review Anyone interested in the American clothing/fashion industry will find this book a helpful introduction to its unique history and culture. Extensive bibliography. Highly recommended. --B. B. Chico, Choice An outstanding book, beautifully combining classical theory, ethnography, and interviews. Must reading for anyone who wants to understand how clothes are designed and what this says about ourselves and the society in which we live. --William Helmreich, City University of New York Graduate Center Designing Clothes offers a variety of unique insider views into the alluring world of the fashion industry. Designers and their roles in fashion are described, not in the usual cliched ways, but in 21st century terms, as charismatic cultural arbiters. . . . [A]ccurately dispels some of the unrealistic mystique surrounding this powerful industry. --Francesca Sterlacci, FIT [A] top pick for college-level collections strong in fashion history and design... Not only art collections but business libraries as well will find it an important survey of how the presentation of fashion is influenced by social change. From fashion industry trends and leadership to the efforts of the fashion designer, Designing Clothes is an excellent, in-depth survey. --Midwest Book Review Anyone interested in the American clothing/fashion industry will find this book a helpful introduction to its unique history and culture. Extensive bibliography. Highly recommended. --B. B. Chico, Choice An outstanding book, beautifully combining classical theory, ethnography, and interviews. Must reading for anyone who wants to understand how clothes are designed and what this says about ourselves and the society in which we live. --William Helmreich, City University of New York Graduate Center Designing Clothes offers a variety of unique insider views into the alluring world of the fashion industry. Designers and their roles in fashion are described, not in the usual cliched ways, but in 21st century terms, as charismatic cultural arbiters. . . . [A]ccurately dispels some of the unrealistic mystique surrounding this powerful industry. --Francesca Sterlacci, FIT [A] top pick for college-level collections strong in fashion history and design... Not only art collections but business libraries as well will find it an important survey of how the presentation of fashion is influenced by social change. From fashion industry trends and leadership to the efforts of the fashion designer, Designing Clothes is an excellent, in-depth survey. --Midwest Book Review Anyone interested in the American clothing/fashion industry will find this book a helpful introduction to its unique history and culture. Extensive bibliography. Highly recommended. --B. B. Chico, Choice [A] top pick for college-level collections strong in fashion history and design... Not only art collections but business libraries as well will find it an important survey of how the presentation of fashion is influenced by social change. From fashion industry trends and leadership to the efforts of the fashion designer, Designing Clothes is an excellent, in-depth survey. -- Midwest Book Review Anyone interested in the American clothing/fashion industry will find this book a helpful introduction to its unique history and culture. Extensive bibliography. Highly recommended. -- B. B. Chico, Choice Author InformationVeronica Manlow is assistant professor of sociology at St. Joseph's College, New York. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |