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The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever Paperback - 2000

by Teri Agins

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It's no longer elite French designers, but mainstream consumers who are dictating fashion trends, contends the author, a senior writer at the "Wall Street Journal". Agins traces the history of the fashion business and relates it to the cultural changes of the past 50 years. 8-page photo insert.

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A solid, hard-hitting, and uncompromising journalistic look at the fashion industry.

The time when "fashion" was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into mass-marketing clothes than into designing them. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. In The End of Fashion, Wall Street Journal, reporter Teri Agins astutely explores this seminal change, laying bare all aspects of the fashion industry from manufacturing, retailing, anmd licensing to image making and financing. Here as well are fascinating insider vignettes that show Donna Karan fighting with financiers, the rivalry between Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, and the commitment to haute conture that sent Isaac Mizrahi's business spiraling.

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The stock market crash of October 19, 1987, left the world in stunned suspension, as millions of people pondered how their lives would inevitably change after nearly a decade of fast fortunes, high living, and conspicuous consumption.

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The time when "fashion" was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now designers take their cues from mainstream consumers and creativity is channeled more into mass-marketing clothes than into designing them. Indeed, one need look no further than the Gap to see proof of this. In The End of Fashion, Wall Street Journal, reporter Teri Agins astutely explores this seminal change, laying bare all aspects of the fashion industry from manufacturing, retailing, anmd licensing to image making and financing. Here as well are fascinating insider vignettes that show Donna Karan fighting with financiers, the rivalry between Ralph Lauren and Tommy Hilfiger, and the commitment to haute conture that sent Isaac Mizrahi's business spiraling.

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  • Title The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever
  • Author Teri Agins
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher William Morrow & Company, New York, New York, U.S.A
  • Publication date 2000-08-22
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780060958206 / 0060958200
  • Weight 0.58 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.05 x 5.28 x 0.83 in (20.45 x 13.41 x 2.11 cm)
  • Category Business / Economics / Finance
  • Library of Congress subjects Clothing trade, Clothing and dress - Marketing
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00039024
  • Dewey Decimal Code 687.068

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