This text teaches how to use Excel for fashion design, merchandising, marketing, and career development. It begins with Excel basics, including creating workbooks, entering and formatting data, using formulas, creating charts, and analyzing data with ChatGPT. It then applies these skills to fashion through production calendars, spec sheets, cost sheets, line sheets, fashion shows, sales reports, buying budgets, pricing, marketing calendars, and social media tracking. The final unit focuses on preparing a fashion résumé and finding entry-level jobs and internships.

Fashion Activist: My Life as a Designer, Dreamer, and Disrupter by André Wright Is an inspirational memoir and a rallying cry for change within the fashion industry. The story chronicles Wright's journey from being a designer to becoming a global fashion activist. He shares personal stories of co-launching his brand, "Humanize My Hoodie," and the impact of designing clothing that sparks important conversations about racial and social justice.

André discusses how he uses fashion as a medium for activism, drawing…

The Power of Branding in Fashion: 2000 and Beyond takes readers on a journey through the story of branding and specifically where art and vision meets technicality and business.

The publication presents the history of branding in its most traditional form as well as the adventure that branding took through fashion, the technical side of branding when it comes to categorizing brands within the industry, how to grow product lines and service models, and of course branding today.

This publication not only educates readers, but connects them with the…

The emphasis of Fashion: Who, When, Why, Where? is based on logic developments and consequences, because it is more important to know what effects the invention of the steam engine has on fashion or why we use insects to dye our lipsticks (or the strawberry Frappuccino from Starbucks for that matter). Kurt Cobain’s Grunge music had a significant influence on fashion, the perfect example of a trickle-up theory. Madonna’s 1980s music performances raised eyebrows all over the world because she dared to emphasize the pointy bra, that everybody was happy to put in the…

Welcome to the first edition of The Complete Book of Technical Design for Technical and Fashion Designers. This comprehensive technical design textbook details and explains each of the technical designer’s responsibilities and job requirements, and offers the following features:

• Presents clear instruction, with corresponding easy-to-follow technical illustrations, photos, technical packets, and grading forms. Student technical drawings and fashion drawings show the imagination of both technical and design-orientated sketching, all done with Adobe Illustrator.
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