How Fashion Works: Couture, Ready-to-Wear and Mass Production

Author:   Gavin Waddell
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN:  

9780632057528


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 August 2004
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Gavin Waddell
Publisher:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 19.30cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 24.60cm
Weight:   0.544kg
ISBN:  

9780632057528


ISBN 10:   0632057521
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 August 2004
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction. Couture. Ready-to-wear. Mass production. Tailoring. Menswear. Dressmaking. Millinery and accessories. The designers. Distribution. Fashion organisation and calendar. Considerations for the future. Appendices. Glossary. Bibliography. Useful addresses and websites

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It is thoroughly researched, attractively presented and appealing in its unpretenious style. It is accessible, pertinent to different levels of expertise, and provides a distinctive insight to the fashion industry. Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management, vol 10, no 1; 2006


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Gavin Waddell, whose experience of fashion is wide ranging, has worked as a designer for two of London’s top couturiers, as a ready-to-wear designer with his own label, as a forecaster, menswear designer and illustrator and more recently as a writer on the subject. As an educator he has run three of Britain’s foremost fashion schools and performed the role of assessor, external examiner and advisor to many of the country’s leading colleges and universities. He studied fashion design at Saint Martin’s School of Art London and has had his work featured in, amongst others, Womenswear Daily, Vogue, Harpers and Queen and The Times.

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