The primary influence in fashion in the 1940s was war‚ which actually set out to mark the new standard. The United States had remained safe and out of the war overseas‚ between Germany‚ Japan‚ England‚ Poland‚ and France‚ but after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7th‚ 1941‚ the United States declared war on Japan‚ Germany‚ and Italy‚ officially entering World War II. Before Paris fell to Germany‚ the majority of fashion designers based their designs on French apparel. The United
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ZARA: Fast Fashion Zara’s performance in the EU. Zara is the largest and most internationalized of Inditex (Industria de Diseno Textil) chain based on Spain. Zara had built up their business in the Spanish market by 1990‚ and started to expand their business into global market. At the same time‚ according to the case‚ they started to make major investments in manufacturing logistics and IT‚ including establishment of a just-in-time manufacturing system‚ a 130‚000-square-meter warehouse close
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Introduction Clothing multiples has the largest market share in women’s wear sector in UK fashion market. Therefore the market competitiveness is extremely fierce in this sector. 2009 was one of the toughest ever years for retailers‚ as trading conditions deteriorated and consumer confidence reached a low. Expenditure on clothing fell by 0.5% to £35.3bn – the fist decline for more than 20 years. (Verdict report) With higher taxes and weak wage growth resulting in consumer reluctance to spend‚
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In the old downtown area of Beijing‚ the traditional courtyard houses are quite impressive for the unique charm of the northern Chinese folk residence. The architectural ornaments of the courtyard houses are of distinctive features‚ with some brick carvings or wood carvings dotted on the prominent places such as the screen walls and the lateral walls of the door. The porch‚ flowers-hung gate (chuihua gate‚ the second gate which separates the outer court and the inner court)‚ drum-shaped bearing stone
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RETAIL OPERATIONS Course Material for Master of Fashion Management Students. RETAIL OPERATIONS Definition of Retail Operations Retail Operations professionals manage retail establishments on a daily basis‚ and are responsible for maximizing store profits. The National Retail Federation (NRF) reports that retail operators may also manage human resources and loss prevention. The retail store is of prime importance to the retail origination‚ for two reasons. • The retail store is the primary
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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. Background: Inditex is an international fashion retailer that designed‚ manufactured and sold apparel‚ footwear‚ and accessories for women‚ men‚ and children through Zara and other five chains around the world. The six retailing chains were organized as separate business units within an overall
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Zara : IT for Fast Fashion Zara is a leading brand in the fashion retail industry. It is a vertically integrated retailer‚ a pioneer of the Just-In-Time Inventory system. It becomes important to define the critical success factors for this industry in the analysis presented through the following three questions: 1. How can you differentiate Zara’s use of IT? Technology investment should be targeted at the points in the value chain where the impact is most significant. If we look at the value
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Concepts of Topology. Topological property. Topological transformation. Continuous deformation. Genus. Homeomorphism. What is the subject of topology all about? With what subject matter is it concerned? What kinds of questions does it ask? With what kinds of problems is it concerned? Let us start with some dictionary definitions. Topology. The study of those properties of geometric figures or solid bodies that remain invariant under certain transformations. Funk & Wagnalls Dictionary
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detail the various theories of globalisation followed by the brand with main focus on Theodore Levitt’s theory of globalisation and how this theory is relevant to the BULGARI brand. Also‚ we would look into the different new approaches to strategic fashion marketing that might be possibly implemented into the brand. This project is organised in six chapters spread across various topics right from the heritage of the brand to its expansion‚ diversification and other strategies. The first chapter
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presents different kinds of portable or folding houses and its applicability in our society. This also discusses about low cost houses which is suitable for low income families. Low cost houses are intended for fast increasing population country that prone from illegal settlers‚ who lived and stayed in urban places in order to work and to do other activities for survival. With the high cost of building materials‚ the designer is task to design a residential house with a limited budget to provide his client
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