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When, how and why do clothes become fashion? Fashion is more than mere clothing. It is a moment of invention, a distillation of desire, a reflection of a zeitgeist. It is also economically relevant relying on an intricate network of manufacture, marketing and retail. Fashion is both medium and message but it does not explain itself. It requires language and images for its global mediation. It develops from the prescience of the designer and is dependent on acceptance by observers and wearers alike. When Clothes Become Fashion explores the structures and strategies which underlie fashion innova

Aesthetics. --- Clothing trade. --- Costume --- Fashion design. --- Fashion. --- Psychological aspects.

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Clothing trade --- Information technology. --- Apparel industry --- Clothiers --- Clothing industry --- Fashion industry --- Garment industry --- Rag trade --- Textile industry --- Tailors

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This lively survey of 150 years of fashion covers everything from Haute Couture to the High Street, and developing fabric technology from silk to fleece. From Coco Chanel to Armani and Alexander McQueen, Breward explores fashion as a cultural phenomenon. Breward examines the glamorous world of Vogue and advertising, the relationship between fashion and film, and fashion as a business, and goes beyond the surface to consider our interaction with fashion. How have our ideas about hygiene and comfort influenced the direction of style? How does our dress create our identity and status? Details of dandies, flappers, and punks are contained within a clear overview of the period which will make you look at your clothes in a different light.

391 "18" --- 391 "19" --- CDL --- 391 --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 391 "19" Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 --- 391 "18" Kleding. Mode. Sieraden. Volksdracht--19e eeuw. Periode 1800-1899 --- Clothing trade --- Fashion --- Fashion design --- Clothing and dress --- Clothing design --- Dress design --- Design --- Style in dress --- Apparel industry --- Clothiers --- Clothing industry --- Garment industry --- Rag trade --- Textile industry --- Tailors --- History --- Fashion industry --- Fashion. --- Clothing trade. --- Fashion design. --- History.

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Internet ; websites ; i.v.m. mode en -ontwerpers --- 391.038 --- Mode ; 1950 - 2000 --- Fashion merchandising --- Fashion --- Internet --- DARPA Internet --- Internet (Computer network) --- Style in dress --- Fashion marketing --- Computer network resources --- Wide area networks (Computer networks) --- World Wide Web --- Clothing and dress --- Clothing trade --- Merchandising --- Retail trade

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One of the greatest challenges for the apparel industry is to produce garments that fit customers properly. Anthropometry, apparel sizing and design addresses the need for improved characterization of our populations in order to tailor garments according to size, weight and shape of consumers. This book reviews techniques in anthropometry, sizing system developments and their applications to clothing design.Part one considers a range of anthropometric methods. The text discusses the range of sizing systems, including data mining techniques, useful for bridging the gap between ergonomis

Anthropometry -- Great Britain. --- Ethnology. --- Race. --- Art, Architecture & Applied Arts --- Arts & Crafts --- Anthropometry --- Clothing and dress --- Clothing trade --- Standards. --- Sizes --- Standards --- Apparel industry --- Clothiers --- Clothing industry --- Fashion industry --- Garment industry --- Rag trade --- Textile industry --- Tailors --- Apparel --- Clothes --- Clothing --- Clothing and dress, Primitive --- Dress --- Dressing (Clothing) --- Garments --- Beauty, Personal --- Manners and customs --- Fashion --- Undressing --- Skeletal remains --- Physical anthropology --- Body size