Merchandising Management: Books

Each of the basic profiles contains a brief overview of the company operations, lists of products, key competitors, the latest sales and employment figures, executives' names, headquarters addresses, and phone and fax numbers.

Hoover's Masterlist of US Companies features information regarding various companies.

A former BBC costume designer offers a quick review of Western fashion from ancient Egypt to 1980.

This reference guide to contemporary fashion features over 400 designers, milliners, footwear designers, companies and textile houses. Entries include biographical summary, bibliography and critical essay.

Arranged alphabetically, this book is an ideal reference for designers researching fashion details.

A guide to dress from ancient times to the present in text and more than 2,000 drawings.

Long considered indispensable by hundreds of users, Fairchild's Dictionary of Fashion presents clothing terminology from both historical and contemporary viewpoints. It is an invaluable tool for those interested in various aspects of fashion: designers seeking business in theater, film, opera, and TV production; newspaper, magazine, and advertising writers and editors; retailers, buyers, and salespeople.

Definitions of terms in the textile industry plus names of textile professional and trade associations, inventors, laboratory tests and various kinds of needlework.

Surveys the proper care of the various types of fabrics, describes the products of the major designers, and discusses the styles of articles of clothing, including pants, dresses, jackets, and shoes.

Defines and illustrates terminology connected with fabrics, threads, stitches, seams, garment construction, sewing machines, and pressing.

Organized into four principal sections with a scope ranging from the ancient world to the nineteenth century, this illustrated volume offers a detailed accounting of men's and women's clothing, both fashions and formal wear as well as everyday garb.

The St. James Fashion Encyclopedia is sure to please students and fashion devotees with well-organized and information-intensive essays (complete with biographical facts) on more than 200 designers, providing a more reliable critical measure and a larger perspective than previously available.

In this beautifully illustrated text, profiles range from historical figures such as Balenciaga, Drecoll, Jacques Heim, Lucile, Molyneux, Schiaparelli, and Vionnet to contemporary designers of men's and women's ready-to-wear such as Joseph Abboud, Linda Allard, Helmut Lang, Nicole Miller, Todd Oldham, Jil Sander, and Anna Sui.