Taking a global, multicultural, social, and economic perspective, this work explores the diverse and colourful history of human attire. From prehistoric times to the age of globalization, articles cover the evolution of clothing utility, style, production, and commerce, including accessories (shoes, hats, gloves, handbags, and jewellery) for men, women, and children. Dress for different climates, occupations, recreational activities, religious observances, rites of passages, and other human needs and purposes - from hunting and warfare to sports and space exploration - are examined in depth and detail. Fashion and design trends in diverse historical periods, regions and countries, and social and ethnic groups constitute a major area of coverage, as does the evolution of materials (from animal fur to textiles to synthetic fabrics) and production methods (from sewing and weaving to industrial manufacturing and computer-aided design). Dress as a reflection of social status, intellectual and artistic trends, economic conditions, cultural exchange, and modern media marketing are recurring themes. Influential figures and institutions in fashion design, industry and manufacturing, retail sales, production technologies, and related fields are also covered.

Explores how the long history of fashion from antiquity to c. 1800 created global networks and animated world communities.

Are you ready to embark on an internal journey step by step? Open the doors to self-discovery and becoming the best version of "YOU" with the self-journey book. This book is designed to be your guide, your source of inspiration. 🚀 Motivation and Inspiration: Do you want to make your life more conscious and meaningful, discover your true passions, and delve into the depths of your own being? This section is perfect for you! The foundation of knowing yourself lies in understanding your strengths and weaknesses. It provides you with an inspiring map to strengthen your weaknesses and further polish your strengths, bringing out your passions and interests. The motivation stories in this section guide you on keeping your motivation high and staying strong in the face of challenges. Get ready to write your own story with the "Motivation and Inspiration" section. Discover your potential, follow your passions, and make your life more conscious and meaningful! 🌱 Personal Development: What is the key to success in life? Setting goals and achieving them! This magnificent "Personal Development" section introduces you to the importance and benefits of goal setting, serving as your guide on the path to success. The section explains the fundamental principles of planning, how to achieve your goals, how to use time more effectively, and how to focus on goals throughout the day. It provides strategies for understanding the sources of stress, mitigating their effects, and staying calm on the path to success. The section also discusses how healthy eating and regular physical activity can empower your goal-setting process. 💖 Personal Care and Style: The "Personal Care and Style" section covers everything from the basic principles of skincare to choosing the right perfume for your skin, emphasizing the importance of your personal clothing style, and guiding you in creating your own unique style. This section will showcase your internal and external beauty, make you feel better, and leave an unforgettable impression on your surroundings. 🗣️ 🌌 Effective Communication and Astrology: Effective communication is the cornerstone of any relationship. The "Effective Communication and Astrology" section offers practical and applicable suggestions filled with effective communication strategies. The section highlights the role of gestures and facial expressions in effective communication, helping you build a deeper connection, understand effective manipulation techniques, read body language accurately, and better understand people through zodiac characteristics. This book is more than just information; it's a life guide. Each page is an invitation for you to discover your own power and potential. Now take the first step for an internal transformation and start your unique journey with "YOU." Remember, the end of this book is actually a beginning! 📚 Buy Now and Take the First Step in Self-Discovery, Achieving Your Goals!

How do fashion designers design? How does design function within the industry? How can design practices open up sustainable pathways for fashion's future? Designing Fashion's Future responds to these questions to offer a fresh understanding of design practices within the sprawling, shifting fashion system. Fashion design is typically viewed as the rarefied practice of elite professionals, or else as a single stage within the apparel value chain. Alice Payne shows how design needn't be reduced to a set of decisions by a designer or design team, but can instead be examined as a process, object, or agent that shapes fashion's material and symbolic worlds. Designing Fashion's Future draws on more than 50 interviews with industry professionals based in Australia, Asia, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. These diverse perspectives from multinational retailers, independent and experimental contexts ground the discussion in contemporary industry practices.

African Fashion, Global Style provides a lively look at fashion, international networks of style, material culture, and the world of African aesthetic expression. Victoria L. Rovine introduces fashion designers whose work reflects African histories and cultures both conceptually and stylistically, and demonstrates that dress styles associated with indigenous cultures may have all the hallmarks of high fashion. Taking readers into the complexities of influence and inspiration manifested through fashion, this book highlights the visually appealing, widely accessible, and highly adaptable styles of African dress that flourish on the global fashion market.

Fashion History: A Global View proposes a new perspective on fashion history. Arguing that fashion has occurred in cultures beyond the West throughout history, this groundbreaking book explores the geographic places and historical spaces that have been largely neglected by contemporary fashion studies, bringing them together for the first time. Reversing the dominant narrative that privileges Western Europe in the history of dress, Welters and Lillethun adopt a cross-cultural approach to explore a vast array of cultures around the globe. They explore key issues affecting fashion systems, ranging from innovation, production and consumption to identity formation and the effects of colonization. Case studies include the cross-cultural trade of silk textiles in Central Asia, the indigenous dress of the Americas and of Hawai'i, the cosmetics of the Tang Dynasty in China, and stylistic innovation in sub-Saharan Africa. Examining the new lessons that can be deciphered from archaeological findings and theoretical advancements, the book shows that fashion history should be understood as a global phenomenon, originating well before and beyond the fourteenth century European court, which is continually, and erroneously, cited as fashion's birthplace. Providing a fresh framework for fashion history scholarship, Fashion History: A Global View will inspire inclusive dress narratives for students and scholars of fashion, anthropology, and cultural studies.

This book presents an exploration of a wide range of issues in law, regulation and legal rights in the sectors of information protection, the creative economy and business activities following COVID-19. The debilitative effect of the global pandemic on information protection and creative and business activities is powerful, widespread and deeply influential, bringing a range of uncertainties to these sectors. The effects of the crisis challenge the fundamentals of the legal systems of most countries in their attempt to govern them. Written by international academics from a diversified background of law disciplines and legal systems, this book offers a global vision in exploring the wide range of legal issues caused by the COVID-19 crisis in these fields. The book is organised into three clear thematic parts: Part I looks at information protection and intellectual property rights and strategies; Part II examines contracts, cooperation and mediation in the post-COVID-19 market arena; and Part III discusses issues pertaining to corporate governance and employment rights. The book explores the unprecedented challenges posed by the pandemic crisis from a global perspective. It will provide invaluable information and guidance in this area to those in the fields of law, politics and economics whose interests are related to information, business and the creative industry, as well as providing indispensable reading to business practitioners and public servants.

Focusing on the South Indian textiles and apparel industry, the August edition of Fibre2Fashion collates voices from a cross-section of industry segments. The other offering in the South India package—from Karur—is about a fantastic initiative that is slowly capturing the imagination of many in the industry. Challenges of spinning industry and their solutions, the world’s first denim institute, and other regular features are also covered. Fibre2Fashion magazine—the print venture of Fibre2Fashion.com since 2011—is circulated among a carefully-chosen target audience globally, and reaches the desks of top management and decision-makers in the textiles, apparel and fashion industry. As one of India's leading industry magazines for the entire textile value chain, Fibre2Fashion Magazine takes the reader beyond the mundane headlines, and analyses issues in-depth.

On semiotics, fashion and philosophy

Americans are burying ourselves in our own waste. It’s befouling our air, land, waters, food, and bodies. The US tosses out enough foodstuff to feed the rest of the world. America is the largest buyer of fashion and cosmetics, the second dirtiest industry in the world. We lead the planet in transportation usage and waste, and we’re now polluting outer space. Throwaway Nation takes a look at the pileup of waste in the US, including the problem of plastic, the industry of overmedication, e-waste products, everyday garbage, fast fashion trash, space waste, and other forms of profligacy that serve to make our nation the biggest waster on the planet. Looking at the environmental impact of so much garbage, Dondero explores not just how we got here and where we’re headed, but ways in which we might be able to curb the tide. From what you do and don’t eat, what and how your products are packaged, the rampant production of clothes, the space and waste in which you work, live, what you breath, eat, drink, the tools you use to work and play, the energy overproduced and ill-used for a pleasant lifestyle, the waste you generate, and how humans are beginning to clutter the cosmos—all and more are profiled in the Throwaway Nation—and what we ought to do to prohibit and mitigate the flow of our garbage and to use it productively.