1st Edition

Designing Clothes Culture and Organization of the Fashion Industry

By Veronica Manlow Copyright 2007
328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

328 Pages
by Routledge

Fashion is all around us: we see it, we buy it, we read about it, but most people know little about fashion as a business. Veronica Manlow considers the broader signifi cance of fashion in society, the creative process of fashion design, and how fashion unfolds in an organizational context where design is conceived and executed. To get a true insider's perspective, she became an intern at fashion... Read more
I: The Fashion Industry; 1: Clothing, Fashion, and Society; 2: The Emergence of the Fashion Industry; 3: The Fashion Designer; 4: Leadership in the Fashion Industry; 5: Organizational Culture in the Fashion Industry; II: Tommy Hilfiger USA, Inc.: A Case Study; 6: Charisma, Culture, and Representation at Tommy Hilfiger; 7: Epilogue

Biography

Veronica Manlow