The textile industry plays a significant part in the global economy, yet often operates with disregard to its environmental and social impacts. This book takes a wide-ranging look at current analysis of the industry and explores the issues of continuous consumption and increasing disposability

The business of fashion : a global perspective -- Fashion forecasting and trend prediction -- Introduction to the principles of fashion management -- Fashion transition -- Fashion marketing and communication -- The fashion machine -- Fashion entrepreneurship and management

This volume explores the essence of the fashion evolution has been constant innovation, which is the utilization of new ideas to produce new products, processes, services or business practices. As an initial attempt to understand innovation in fashion, this volume focuses on product innovations,...