Fashion and Interior Design

Topics include digital and social media channels, fashion product development, fashion design, fashion marketing and communication strategy, e-commerce and omni-channel management, corporate social responsibility, and wearable technologies.

Provides essential insights into Chinese consumer behaviors in the growing and dynamic fashion market.

Investigates the success story of the fast fashion industry--mainly owned by Chinese migrants--in Prato, Italy, and outlines how Prato has become the center of a value chain stretching from suppliers in China and Turkey to buyers in Europe.

Gives the inside scoop on starting a clothing store, including how to spot trends and take advantage of them before your competitors do.

A case study based approach to examine the contemporary issues in the fashion industry. It documents real-world practices in fashion business from production, marketing to operations.

Focuses on case studies, which are essential to showcase how practical applications have been accomplished, and provide an opportunity to learn about and adopt the best practices, challenges and practical implications.

Explores the sartorial politics of identity in the literature of the South Asian diaspora in Britain.

Highlights the challenges currently facing the fashion industry, which has been strongly influenced by the digital revolution in the music industry.

Focuses on core strategies of branding and communication of European luxury and premium brands.

Analyzes the logics and instruments by which fashion companies create collections, taking into account the variety of companies' characteristics and business models.

Comprehensive overview of the ethical issues in the fashion industry, from collection design concept to upcycling and closed loop production.

Discusses radical dress reforms in East Asia and takes a fresh look at the symbols and languages of modernity in dress and body.

A journey through the fairy-tale wardrobe, explaining how the mercurial nature of fashion has shaped and transformed the Western fairy-tale tradition. Many of tales' most iconic images are items of dress: the glass slippers, the red capes, the gowns shining like the sun, and the red shoes.

Provides a solid grounding in the fashion history of the 19^th century and brings together for the first time sources that trace the evolution of dress and the social, cultural and political discourses that influenced it.

Argues that cheap, disposable clothing has led, time and time again, to serious community, environmental, and labor rights abuses.

Focuses on sustainability in fashion retail, which is fast becoming the pivot point of future fashion retail strategies.

Highlights the models developed to create a sustainable framework suitable for luxury in the textile sector and the innovative attempts in the luxury fashion and fabrics industry.

Explores the essence of fashion evolution, which is the utilization of new ideas to produce new products, processes, services or business practices.

It's hard to drive down the street without seeing chain restaurants, car dealerships, and branded clothing. What most of us don't know is that the origins of many well-known and beloved brands are shrouded in controversy, drug use and sometimes even addled with blatant racism.

Argues that fashion and luxury brands should craft the customer experience with the same attention as they do with products, injecting creativity in all relevant touch-points.

Explores the complex story of the young women and men in the hosiery mills of Kensington, the working-class heart of Philadelphia. Their product was silk stockings, the iconic fashion item of the flapper culture then sweeping America and the world.

Provides insight into sustainability and fashion in a retailing/marketing context and offers international applications with a view to contextualizing important developments within the industry.

Explores new approaches and strategies that luxury fashion brands could adopt in their operations toward sustainability goals.

Ideas, visions, strategies, and dreams of entrepreneurs, managers, scientists and political experts who share their best practice experience relating to the joint goal of a more sustainable, humanistic, and responsible fashion industry.

Highlights the environmental and economic benefits of recycling in textiles and fashion; vis-a-vis virgin textiles. Recycling plays an inevitable part when it comes to sustainable innovations in textiles and fashion sector.

Discusses the concepts of recycling and upcycling and their implications for the textiles and fashion sector.

Examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the 21^st century, across multiple oceanic sites including Zanzibar, Muscat, Kampala, Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka.

Offers a compendium of business developments from across the globe, including examples from Europe, the Middle East and Asia for the 'pre-loved or pre-owned' clothing trade.

An editorial project on the meanings of Fashion System today in a future perspective.

An easy-to-understand guide for designers on the legal topics that deeply affect their everyday professional activities.

A history of color and commerce from haute couture to automobile showrooms to interior design.

A comprehensive and detailed study of the business side of interior design.

Examines luxury and its relationship with desire, status, consumption and economic value, exploring why luxury remains prominent even in the context of a global recession.

Examines the history of smart homes, how technology shapes our lives, and ways you can think about the home when developing new products.