Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel Fashion Designer Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel (1883-1971) was born in Saumur‚ Southern France. She began by designing hats‚ first in Paris in 1908‚ and later in Deauville. Her fashion boutiques (one in Paris and one in Deauville) opened simultaneously in 1914. She opened an haute couture salon in Biarritz in 1916‚ and in 1920 moved to Paris in the present quarters on rue Cambon. Ready-to-wear fashions were not introduced until 1978‚ after Coco’s death. Chanel is a member of
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What are the Core Skills and Attributes Required to be a Successful Fashion Buyer? Craig Weighman ABSTRACT This study was carried out in order to explore the role of the fashion buyer and generate a greater understanding whilst also developing informed and insightful opinions on the key attributes required in becoming a successful fashion buyer in industry. The main findings were that the fashion industry is a highly competitive market place as much reliant on business flair and intuition as
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"Fashion is one of the greatest forces in present-day life. It pervades every field and reaches every class.… It has always been a factor in human life but never more forceful‚ never more influential and never wider in scope than in the last decade‚ and it gives every indication of growing still more important." So with everything in mind‚ we can really agree with him when he said that it was more than an expression of individual taste; it was instead a statement of group membership‚ of involvement
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1930s fashion At the beginning of the 1930s more than 15 million americans were unemployed.(“The Great Depression”) The fashion in the thirties was a completely different story. They showed themselves to be fancy and elegant.The 1930s was a time we struggled and had a significant social change. The 1930s was a somewhat “depressing” era of time. In 1929 the stock market crashed which led to the Great Depression in the 1930s. Many Americans went into debt and by the time 1931 arrived nearly
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TIMELESS TREND AKANKSHA VARSHNEY NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACT: PURPOSE- The purpose of this conceptual paper to identify the impact of military camouflage print in the world of fashion. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY- This paper is based on a review of the literature and takes a case study approach. The paper talks about the origin of camouflage in fashion capital and designers take on it in today’s world. FINDINGS- Fashion uses the camouflage in completely ironical manner. Camouflage
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MEC Introduction Fashion Industry in India is in nascent stage at the moment and has great potential to make its mark on the world stage. Indian fashion has thousands of years of tradition behind it. India has a rich and varied textile heritage. Each region of India has its own unique native costume and traditional attire. Fashion Industry in India is growing at a rapid pace with international events such as the India Fashion Week gaining popularity and annual shows by fashion designers being held
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H&M Fashion and Quality at its Best Price Leah-Marie Marsang 00044231 College of Science Technology Applied Arts of Trinidad and Tobago Abstract In this paper‚ we look at the European born fashionable clothing store‚ H&M. We gain knowledge of the brief history of the store‚ where it began‚ who started it and how it became worldwide. Also discussed‚ the different services and products H&M provide its consumer‚ who does it provide such products to and in what categories
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MM1 CASE STUDY SUMMARY THE FASHION CHANNEL-Introduction 1. The Fashion Channel (TFC) is a cable TV network 2. It was founded in the year 1996. 3. Jared Thomas is the CEO. 4. Experienced constant revenue and profit growth above the industry average. 5. Almost 80mn U.S. households subscribed to cable and satellite TV. 6. In the beginning of 2006‚ the company started facing stiff competition from other networks. 7. In July 2006‚ Dana Wheeler was appointed as VP of TFC. PROBLEMS: TFC was facing
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I. The Summary Meerza’s Tailoring Fashion house has been in the marketplace for more than 10 years. She started in Paris from “bricks and mortar” studio and has grown her business to gain an award for Best Female Entrepreneur in France. She offers specially made suits‚ mostly for senior executives‚ at €750 per suit‚ which is considered a fair price in Paris. As the business was growing‚ she employed staff in London‚ Paris and Brussels to facilitate fabrication and delivery. The online-service she’s
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ZARA Fashion 1) With which of the international competitors listed in the case is it most interesting to compare Inditex’s financial results? Why? What do comparisons indicate about Inditex’s relative operating economics? Its relative capital efficiency? Note that while the electronic version of Exhibit 6 automates some of the comparisons‚ you will probably want to dig further into them? The four companies shown above have very different business models. Inditex owned much of the production
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