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Fashion Education Books
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What You Should Know Before Going Into Fashion

There are many different positions that work together to make fashion what it is. The books were designed to introduce you to as many areas of fashion as possible with particular emphasis on those offering viable career opportunities. You will learn about fashion designers, fashion shows, brand names and labels, retailing, buying, promotion, selling, manufacturing, the history of fashion, how to fund a business, how to predict trends, how to sell and design fashion that compliments individual body shapes, how to use the elements of design to create a desired mood effect in design, dress, advertising, and display.....each one of these topics is a potential avenue for your career in fashion. So, let's get you started!

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a fashion designer?

the district manager
for a large chain?

own your own boutique?

create window displays?

be a designer's trunk
show representative?

the advertising director
for a fashion house?

a costume designer
for a Hollywood film?

fashion photographer?

stylist?

a fashion blogger?