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Fairchild Books has been the premier publisher of educational books on fashion and textiles since the 1940s. Our original publishing program focused on illustration, construction, patternmaking, draping, grading, fashion merchandising, and fashion marketing. Our titles help educate students and professionals in the broad range of fashion fields from design, production, and manufacturing to retailing, marketing, and visual merchandising. Our award-winning list also covers the following subjects: costume history; social, psychological, cultural, and aesthetic aspects of dress; color and color theory; and retailing, including promotion and visual merchandising. Today, our publishing plan takes a variety of forms, ranging from traditional books and textbooks to CD-ROMs and cutting-edge multi-media products.
The Art of Fashion Draping, 3rd Edition
Connie Amaden - Crawford
Intended for students of fashion design, clothing, and dressmaking, this easy-to-follow bestseller teaches the different methods and principles involved in draping fabric on the dress form. The Art of Fashion Draping, 3rd Edition, is organized from basic to more advanced topics. New and revised illustrations keep the book up to date.
The Dynamics of Fashion, 3rd Edition
Elaine Stone
Fashion today is fast-paced, technologically savvy, and
global—and this third edition of The Dynamics of Fashion has been updated to
be on the cutting edge. Featuring a new chapter on the history of fashion,
the latest facts and figures, and the most current theories in fashion
development, production, and merchandising, this book provides a broad
foundation for students hoping to become a part of the industry. Apparel,
accessories, cosmetics, home fashions, green design, and more are explored
in detail. Hundreds of examples make the business aspect fun. Fresh,
forward, challenging, and comprehensive, Elaine Stone's classic text is for
those in fashion who want to be both in the now and in the know.
Principles of Flat Pattern Design, 3rd Edition
Nora M. MacDonald
Written as a beginning-level, patternmaking text, Principles of Flat Pattern Design, 3rd Edition, provides an added dimension to apparel design and a better understanding of the processes involved in producing ready-to-wear or custom apparel. In this text, the author presents step-by-step instructions and diagrams, including a representation of the completed pattern. Design problems expand on the immediately preceding topic and offer the opportunity to build on previously learned material. An insert of half-scale sloper patterns will help students practice examples and problems in scale.
- Apparel Analysis
- Branding
- Childrenswear
- Color
- Computer Aided Design: Gerber
- Computer Aided Design: Lectra
- Construction
- Consumer Behavior
- Costume Design
- Costume History
- Couture Sewing
- Design Foundations
- Draping
- Dress and Society
- Entrepreneurship
- Ethics
- Fashion Economics
- Fashion Forecasting
- Fashion Illustration
- Fashion Journalism
- Fashion Law
- Fashion Presentation
- Fashion Writing
- Fitting
- Global Market
- Grading
- Image Management
- Importing and Exporting
- Introduction to Fashion
- Knitwear
- Marketing
- Menswear
- Merchandising / Retail Buying
- Effective Marketing Management: Using Merchandising and Financial Strategies for Retail Success
- 20th Century Dress in the United States
- A Buyer's Life: A Concise Guide to Retail Planning and Forecasting
- A Practical Approach to Merchandising Mathematics
- Merchandise Buying, 5th Edition
- Merchandise Buying and Management, 3rd Edition
- Mathematics for Retail Buying, 6th Edition
- Making Buying Decisions: Using the Computer as a Tool, 3rd Edition
- Concepts and Cases in Retail and Merchandise Management, 2nd Edition
- Merchandise Planning Workbook
- Merchandising Mathematics, Revised First Edition
- Merchandising: Theory, Principles, and Practice, 3rd Edition
- Perry's Department Store: A Buying Simulation for Juniors, Men's Wear, Children's Wear, & Home Fashion / Giftware, 3rd Edition
- Retail Buying: From Basics to Fashion, 3rd Edition
- Retailing in the 21st Century, 2nd Edition
- Using Computerized Spreasheets: Matematics for Retail Buying
- Merchandising Promotion
- Patternmaking
- Product Development
- Product Knowledge
- Professional Development
- Promotion
- Reference
- Research Methods
- Retailing
- Selling
- Social Responsibility
- Sustainable Fashion
- Tailoring
- Tech Drawing
- Technical Design
- Textiles
- Visual Merchandising
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