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For any market to work properly, certain key elements are necessary: competition, pricing, rules, clearly defined offers, and easy access to information. Without these components, there would be chaos. Orderly Fashion examines how order is maintained in the different interconnected consumer, producer, and credit markets of the global fashion industry. From retailers in Sweden and the United Kingdom to producers in India and Turkey, Patrik Aspers focuses on branded garment retailers--chains such as Gap, H&M, Old Navy, Topshop, and Zara. Aspers investigates these retailers' interactions and competition in the consumer market for fashion garments, traces connections between producer and consumer markets, and demonstrates why market order is best understood through an analysis of its different forms of social construction. Emphasizing consumption rather than production, Aspers considers the larger retailers' roles as buyers in the production market of garments, and as potential objects of investment in financial markets. He shows how markets overlap and intertwine and he defines two types of markets--status markets and standard markets. In status markets, market order is related to the identities of the participating actors more than the quality of the goods, whereas in standard markets the opposite holds true. Looking at how identities, products, and values create the ordered economic markets of the global fashion business, Orderly Fashion has wide implications for all modern markets, regardless of industry.

Industrial sociology. --- Fashion merchandising --- Clothing trade --- Sociology --- Industrial organization --- Industries --- Fashion marketing --- Merchandising --- Retail trade --- Apparel industry --- Clothiers --- Clothing industry --- Fashion industry --- Garment industry --- Rag trade --- Textile industry --- Tailors --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Economic sociology --- Industrial economics --- Advertising Costs. --- Advertising agency. --- Advertising campaign. --- Advertising. --- And Interest. --- Anti-fashion. --- Behalf. --- Benchmarking. --- Brand extension. --- Brand loyalty. --- Calculation. --- Capitalism. --- Clothing industry. --- Clothing. --- Commodity. --- Comparative advantage. --- Competition (economics). --- Competition. --- Competitive advantage. --- Consulting firm. --- Consumer Goods. --- Consumer choice. --- Consumer network. --- Consumer. --- Counterfeit consumer goods. --- Creative work. --- Currency. --- Customer base. --- Customer. --- Designer. --- Developed country. --- Double auction. --- Economic cost. --- Economic sociology. --- Economics. --- Entrepreneurship. --- Ethical trade. --- Exchange of information. --- Fair value. --- Fashion editor. --- Fashion line. --- Fast fashion. --- Financial capital. --- Free trade. --- Fundamental analysis. --- Globalization. --- Glocalization. --- Grand theory. --- Haute couture. --- Identity management. --- In-House. --- Internationalization. --- Investor relations. --- Knowledge society. --- Lean manufacturing. --- Letter of credit. --- Liberalization. --- Marginal utility. --- Market (economics). --- Market segmentation. --- Marketing collateral. --- Marketing. --- Micromarketing. --- Neoclassical economics. --- No frills. --- Obsolescence. --- Organizational studies. --- Outlet store. --- Overproduction. --- Positioning (marketing). --- Price fixing. --- Price mechanism. --- Pricing. --- Product design. --- Product differentiation. --- Proposal (business). --- Protectionism. --- Purchasing power. --- Rational choice theory. --- Ready Made Garment. --- Reasonable person. --- Relationship marketing. --- Retail. --- Risk aversion. --- Scientific management. --- Search cost. --- Shopping. --- Social constructionism. --- Social structure. --- Speculation. --- Standardization. --- Stock exchange. --- Stock market. --- Supply chain. --- Technical analysis. --- Trade association. --- Utility. --- Utilization. --- Vendor. --- World Trade Organization.