Unveiling Fashion: Business, Culture, and Identity in the Most Glamorous Industry (Godart F.)(Paperback)

The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: Start and Run Your Own Fashion Business (Gehlhar Mary)(Paperback)

In The Fashion Designer Survival Guide, Mary Gehlhar, industry authority and small business consultant, offers behind-the-scenes advice for independent designers.You'll also hear from industry experts in social media and financing and from dozens of designers about their past challenges and keys to

Luxury and Visual Culture (Armitage John)(Paperback)

From couture fashion to opulent perfumes and decadent food, the luxury goods and services industry has grown at an unprecedented rate even in the context of a global recession. But in contemporary digital culture does luxury still reside in material things, or rather the look of things? In this

The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever (Agins Teri)(Paperback)

A solid, hard-hitting, and uncompromising journalistic look at the fashion industry.The time when 'fashion' was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into

The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and Identity (Wells Liz)(Paperback)

The Photography Cultures Reader: Representation, Agency and Identity engages with contemporary debates surrounding photographic cultures and practices from a variety of perspectives, providing insight and analysis for students and practitioners. With over 100 images included, the diverse essays

The Incomplete: Highsnobiety Guide to Street Fashion and Culture (Gestalten)(Pevná vazba)

Street fashion and urban culture have come a long way from humble beginnings in the ‘90s. From disparate local scenes in Japan, Europe, and the US, the youth-driven movements of hip-hop, punk, and skateboarding have finally infiltrated high fashion. Brands are now eager to collaborate with the

Fashion in European Art: Dress and Identity, Politics and the Body, 1775-1925 (Young Justine de)(Paperback)

Costing for the Fashion Industry (Evans Nathalie)(Paperback)

Costing for the Fashion Industry is a practical, easy-to-use guide to the manufacture, sourcing and risk management methods essential to make a new fashion business venture financially viable. Each chapter focuses on a theme, such as entrepreneurship, time constraints, global awareness and new

100 Years of Fashion (Blackman Cally)(Paperback)

100 Years of Fashion documents in pictures the most exciting and diverse period in fashion: from 1900 to today, covering high society, uniforms, sportswear, streetwear and couture. It will appeal to everyone with an interest in fashion as well as students. The last hundred or so years bore witness

Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things (Gilchrist Alasdair)(Paperback)

A unique book on business to business (b2) Internet of Things (IoT); most IoT books face the consumer.Apress is a leading publisher of Maker and Internet of Things books.Industry 4.0 as a model for re-industrialization of existing manufacturing and other tradition-based industriesAlasdair Gilchrist

F**k Business - The Business of Brexit (Anderson Iain)(Paperback / softback)

The definitive account of the breakdown in the pivotal relationship between business and

Transformative Learning and Identity (Illeris Knud)(Paperback)

In the current ever changing world - the liquid modernity - the most pressing psychological challenge to all of us is to create and maintain a personal balance between mental stability and mental flexibility. In Transformative Learning and Identity Knud Illeris, one of the leading thinkers on the

Fashion Ethics (Thomas Sue)(Paperback)

Fashion Ethics provides a comprehensive overview of the ethical issues in the fashion industry, from collection design concept to upcycling and closed loop production. This book answers an urgent need for a comprehensive understanding of the fundamental ethics of the fashion industry.Sue Thomas

European fashion: The creation of a global industry (Blaszczyk Regina Lee)(Paperback)

This volume examines the cultural history of the fashion industry in the postwar era. Taking an original, interdisciplinary approach, it focuses on the internal culture of the trade, explaining the significance of value creation and assessing the transformation of local industries into global

Challenge Culture - Why the Most Successful Organizations Run on Pushback (Travis Nigel)(Paperback / softback)

A business book from Nigel Travis, the British-born Chairman and CEO of American multinational Dunkin Brands, owners of Dunkin Donuts and Baskin Robbins ice

Blackout: My 40 Years in the Music Business (Porter Paul)(Paperback)

Blackout is an explosive look at the corruption that is running rampant in the industry. And Blackout is an inside account of how corporations erased Black identity from Black radio and mainstream Black music -- and why I chose to fight

Reading the Road, from Shakespeare's Crossways to Bunyan's Highways (Hopkins Lisa)(Paperback)

Explores how cultural conceptions of mobility and the road contribute to identity and culture in early modern Britain Opens new windows on early modern culture, subjectivity and perceptions around the experience of the road and how that shapes the idea of the road itself Offers insight into the

How to Start and Run a Successful Consulting Business (Kishel Gregory F.)(Pevná vazba)

'The consulting industry is one of the fastest growing business sectors worldwide with new opportunities emerging continually in hundreds of different fields. Whatever your area of expertise--engineering or employee relations, computers or customer service--there's likely to be a demand for your

Hbr's 10 Must Reads on Nonprofits and the Social Sectors (Featuring What Business Can Learn from Nonprofits by Peter F. Drucker) (Review Harvard Business)(Paperback)

Fashion Cultures Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis (Bruzzi Stella)(Paperback)

Following on from the ground-breaking collection Fashion Cultures, this second anthology, Fashion Cultures Revisited, contains 26 newly commissioned chapters exploring fashion culture from the start of the new millennium to the present day. The book is divided into six parts, each discussing

Baked in: Creating Products and Businesses That Market Themselves (Bogusky Alex)(Paperback)

Brands must build a new relationship with their customers and the culture they participate in. The old rule was to create safe, ordinary products and combine them with mass marketing. The new rule: create truly innovative products and build the marketing right into them. Today, it's within the

Fashion, Culture, and Identity (Davis Fred)(Paperback)

What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be 'in fashion' universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis

The Movie Business Book (Squire Jason E.)(Paperback)

Tapping experts in an industry experiencing major disruptions, The Movie Business Book is the authoritative, comprehensive sourcebook, covering online micro-budget movies to theatrical tentpoles. This book pulls back the veil of secrecy on producing, marketing, and distributing films, including

Beyond the Sea: Navigating Bioshock (Parker Felan)(Paperback)

The Bioshock series looms large in the industry and culture of video games for its ambitious incorporation of high-minded philosophical questions and retro-futuristic aesthetics into the ultraviolent first-person shooter genre. Beyond the Sea marks ten years since the release of the original game

Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man (Mann Thomas)(Paperback)

A classic, controversial book exploring German culture and identity by the author of Death in Venice and The Magic Mountain, now back in print. When the Great War broke out in August 1914, Thomas Mann, like so many people on both sides of the conflict, was exhilarated. Finally, the era of decadence