My intended audience is for those
students interested in a life of fashion. My grade levels will include those
students from high school onto college. I wanted to share a pathfinder where
students can reference back to fashion and all the concepts that feature into
it. Fashion has become a mainstream fixation like no other in the last couple
of years. Needless to say fashion has always been a stepping stone from people
around the world dating back before Christ.
- 2 Reference Books
Eicher, J. B., & Oxford University Press. (2010). Encyclopedia of world dress and fashion. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
This encyclopedia is an
awarding winner to the Dartmouth Medal. Since 2010, the Encyclopedia of World
Dress and Fashion is the
largest reference source on dress and human adornment worldwide. The
reliability is great seeing that is it an awarding winning encyclopedia of
dress and fashion. The individual volumes, each coordinated by a specialist
Editor, provide wide-ranging coverage of dress and fashion in different
regions. In-depth and original articles on countries, themes, cultural groups,
and types of dress are amongst the popular section in the source. Great
pictures snapshot articles featuring illuminating examples and case studies. A
wide range of excellent bibliographies and fashion suggestions are after each reading article.
Steele, V. (2005). Encyclopedia of clothing and
fashion. New York: Scribner/Thomson.
This is a three part
volume encyclopedia of clothing and fashion. Some almost a decade ago this book
was an outstanding resource of 2005. The source is edited by Valerie Steele is
a fashion historian, curator, and director of the Museum at the Fashion
Institute of Technology in New York. Over 300
reputable academics, journalists, and fashion industry professionals are cited
in the encyclopedia. This impressive reference work compares a unique bond
between culture and fashion through alphabetically arranged articles. Within
this fashion manual it shares the history of clothing and textiles, great
fashion houses and trends, and cultural/ethnic aspects of dress. Some 640 articles describe the
colorful facets of couture and textiles, from fabrics of chintz, corduroy, and etc.
- 3 Journals (online database)
About Us. Berg Fashion Library. Retrieved
April 30, 2014, from the Berg Fashion Library database.
The Berg Fashion Library is an online e-journal that
offers insight into fashion. I find the site to be very detailed with
information referring to fashion in all different aspects. It’s an encyclopedia also that shows color images from
museum costume collections, and e-books on world dress and fashion throughout
history. This library is just a great online source to fashion students. Lesson
places are placed on the site for teachers who need to use to construct their
plans. There are even lesson plans one
as a fashion student major can follow for classes. The library has several
other books and journals that reference fashion which include A-Z of Fashion to a Specially-created taxonomy. All are updated several
times a year for students, scholars, and professionals of cutting edge fashion
subjects.
Buyer Praise Paris: Creative and Salable. WWD: Women’s Wear Daily,207,
1. Retrieved April 30, 2014, from the EbscoHost database.
This journal discusses tips on buying and selling fashion
items in Paris, France. Paris is the ending place for designers to conclude
showing their collection during fashion week. This is the place where fashion
merchandising is taken to the extreme. Women’s Wear Daily talks about 2014 fall
fashion week and how designers need to design more commercial pieces. The
journal cites many designers who gave their insight on how fashion week is
coming together for the upcoming fall. It also cites how the popular fashion
designers have to get creative with their collection this year. Top buyers are
discussing how each popular fashion label quality and texture is the reason why
they are buying their pieces. The fashion shows give sellers a chance to expose
themselves through fashion.
Ferrara, J. S. Retailers
Target Younger Audience. Value
Line Research Center. Retrieved April 30, 2014, from
http://libguides.lib.usm.edu/article_database_list
Value
Line Research Center provides information about how to fashion
retailers target younger audience. Value Line’s leading publications covering
stocks, mutual funds, options, and convertible
securities, as well as special situation stocks. The journal discusses how
teens have been one of the fastest-growing populations in the U.S. Also the
second-largest age group after the baby-boomers of the 1940s, 50s, and 60s according
to statistical data. Since the
2007 recession, sales are low and many retailers have reached out to a
much younger crowd such as babies and teens. The journal also cites many popular stores
that are popular amongst teens and retailers such as American Eagle Outfitters,
The Gap Inc. and Aeropostale. Retailers
have fallen prey to advertising and designing clothes for that age group.
- Other (if applicable)
Part 3: Online
Resources (5)
- Web sites
Fashion.
(2014, January 1). . Retrieved
May 1, 2014, from http://www.universityoffashion.com.
The
University of Fashion was founded and developed by Francesca
Sterlacci, a New York fashion
designer, educator and author. Her mission is to preserve the art and craft of
fashion design by bringing together the best fashion industry professionals to
create lessons that inspire and educate students, teachers, home sewers and the
fashion curious. A professor and chairperson in New York City and later in
San Francisco for 20 years combined. The University of Fashion has been in
development for over 5 years. We conducted surveys and focus groups with
students, teachers, home sewers, and with members of the fashion community.
With their input we discussed which lessons to film. We categorized each into
one of the five fashion design disciplines of Draping, Pattern Making, Sewing,
Fashion Art and Product Development. After carefully choosing the best
fashion college professors and industry professionals we made several pilot
lessons. Our studios in New York City and Vancouver, Canada are
furnished with state-of-the-art equipment. Our team of videographers and
editors carefully frame each shot using multiple cameras to make sure that the
instructor’s every step is captured.
Ivanova,
I., & Milman, A. (2007, January 1). Art, Design, Fashion resources, Fashion
portfolios, Textile. Retrieved May 1, 2014, from http://www.artdesignfashion.com/
This
website was created by fashion designers and educators Irina Ivanova and Andre
Milman. The site offers insight into fashion portfolio gallery to share with
Fashion students and expertise. On the site presents projects that are emerged
by fashion, textile, and costume designers. There are four virtual galleries
within the website that consist of costume design and creative fashion, textile
and screen printing, fashion drawing illustrations, and fashion art and design
portfolios. These are all projects that students are to meet as a goal
instructed by the website. All projects
put on the site are presented to professionals to be graded by criteria
enlisted to review on a regular basis.
State
University of New York. (2014).Fashion Institute of Technology. Retrieved May
1, 2014, from https://www.fitnyc.edu/library.asp
Fashion
Institute of Technology is home to State University of New York. FIT’S site
discuss everything from accreditation to library resources. FIT stems from the
Educational Foundation for the Apparel Industries created by Mortimer C.
Ritter and Max Meyer in the 1940s. During
this time, the college’s curriculum was growing beyond traditional notions of
fashion, to include subjects like photography and advertising and interior
design. The college wanted to further expand its curriculum by offerings
bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The institute’s mission and vision is one that
promotes creativity, student empowerment, and academic excellence. It also
houses a museum on its ground at the university. FIT museum is known for being
one of the most fashionable in NYC. The Museum’s permanent collection
encompasses some 50,000 garments and accessories from the 18th century to the
present. The institute has a strong policy of safety and security to ensure all
students that they will be greatly taken care of.
Fashion
United. (2014). Retrieved May 1, 2014, from
http://www.fashionunited.com/education
The
Fashion Education Network, a non profit initiative by FashionUnited, is an
online platform uniting the global fashion education market. It is a place where Fashion Schools can present
themselves towards other institutes, students and the global fashion industry.
It offers from job opportunities to lookbook indexes. The objective is to
stimulate interaction between schools, students and industry leaders by sharing
knowledge and intelligence. The Fashion Education Network wants to contribute
by providing free information and resources and help develop a talented
and skilled next generation of fashion professionals. This is a great site
to utilize if you are a high school student on the hunt for a fashion design
school. Especially if you are undecided on fashion being a major you would love
to turn into a career.
Federal
Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy of German resolution. (2014).
iXPOS. Retrieved May 1, 2014, from http://www.ixpos.de/IXPOS/Navigation/EN/Your-business-in-germany/Business-sectors/Consumer-goods/textiles.html?view=renderPrint
iXPOS is an German business portal
for textile. A large market in fashionable goods and modern technical textile
around the world. The domestic industry is made
up of almost 1200 mostly small and medium sized enterprises with a workforce of
120,000 in the different industry segments alone. The textile and clothing industry in Germany is one of the
most important sectors in the country. The
country is also the second largest textile importer after the United States and
has become an attractive market for many textile exporting countries since the
1980s. iXPOS has supporting institution of textiles in Germany foreign
manufacturing that they are associated with.
The site shows the steps to gaining access to Germany textile through an
agent through distribution channels.
- Other (podcasts)
Victoria and Albert Museum. (2005). Curating Contemporary
Fashion [Audio podcast]. Retrieved from http://itunes.apple.com
Victoria and Albert Museum is known for being the world’s
greatest museum of art and design. Located in London, England this enriched
museum has been introducing podcasts to the public since this year. The museum
is trying to expose its vision and mission of fashion worldwide for the future.
The V&A has collected contemporary objects ever since it was founded in the
nineteenth century. In this episode, Glenn discusses the importance and
challenges of collecting and displaying fashion with Brix Smith Start and
Oriole Cullen. Brix has long been established as a fashion icon since she
emerged in the 1980s as a member of post-punk band The Fall. Oriole, a curator
in the museums fashion and textile department, specialises in contemporary
dress. Together, they discuss how the V&A situates the fast-paced world of
fashion within the museum context.
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