Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring The Global Fashion Industry

Anyone who has ever tried to design a fashion brand is aware of how difficult it can be to make their fashion designs materialize. Each year, many fashion designers create fashion portfolios with hopes to produce and sell their fashion brand online or in a brick and mortar store. Finding out how to manufacture a fashion brand can be a grueling process when sourcing clothing and fabric factories abroad. Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring The Global Fashion Industry course book provides the information and tools that you need to overcome these obstacles and successfully manufacture a fashion brand. This book includes; tips for creating a portfolio, the necessary steps to manufacturer a fashion brand, information on how-to start an eco friendly fashion brand, and ideas to prepare and coordinate a fashion show. You will also find job descriptions for career opportunities within the fashion industry, suggestions to market and advertise a fashion brand, as well as learn the pros and cons of starting an ecommerce or brick and mortar store. Includes fashion illustrations and technical drawings. This book is for students, entrepreneurs, industry professionals, and anyone that's interested in starting a fashion brand with an aim to manufacture in China.

Author: Shawnie Grant
Publisher: Tailored Boutique Inc.
Published: 09/06/2018
Pages: 82
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d
ISBN: 9780692179543

About the Author
Grant, Shawnie: - Shawnie Grant started her professional career within the fashion industry in 2009 when she founded a charity organization Tailored Hearts, which reconstructs gently worn garments, and donates them to teenage girls in need living in Houston, Texas. She has years of experience in fashion design, global fabric sourcing, import/export, as well as research and development through her business Tailored Boutique, which was started in 2013. Her experience extends to the media world, where she co-hosted fashion segments to promote her clothing brand Tailored on a local new channel in Houston, KHOU 11, which is a CBS-affiliated television station. She began her personal journey with Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring the Global Fashion Industry in 2015 when she made the decision to move to Shenzhen, China to work side-by-side with local clothing manufacturers to produce her clothing brand Tailored. During that time, she started writing fashion curriculums and taught them in Shenzhen, Shanghai, and Morocco. In 2017, she taught Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring The Global Fashion Industry curriculum at New York University Shanghai in Shanghai, China to high school students desiring to start careers within the fashion industry. She followed with Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring the Global Fashion Industry course book, which is now sold globally, offering countless others the opportunity to learn the necessary steps to start and manufacture a fashion brand. Shawnie was the first fashion consultant to teach a fashion course at New York University Shanghai NYUSPS and is the first to teach garment manufacturing workshops Texas Southern University located in Houston, Texas. Fashion Beyond Borders: Exploring the Global Fashion Industry will be taught at TSU during the Fall 2018-2019 academic year. Shawnie is currently a graduate student in University of Houston MBA program concentrating in international business. The information in this book was developed from Shawnie's personal experiences while studying and working abroad. Learn more about Tailored Boutique's fashion consulting services at www.tailoredboutique.com.

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