Exploring Leadership or Fashion From Concept to Consumer

Exploring Leadership: For College Students Who Want to Make a Difference

Author: Nance Lucas

This is the thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the best-selling book Exploring Leadership. The book is designed to help college students understand that they are capable of being effective leaders and to guide them in developing their leadership potential. Exploring Leadership incorporates new insights and material developed in the course of the authors’ work in the field. The second edition contains expanded and new chapters and also includes the relational leadership model, uses a more global context and examples that relate to a wide variety of disciplines, contains a new section which emphasizes ways to work to accomplish change, and concludes with concrete strategies for activism.

 

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	The Authors
Pt. 1	Leadership for a Changing World
1	An Introduction to Leadership	3
2	The Changing Nature of Leadership	25
3	A New Way of Understanding Leadership	67
Pt. 2	Exploring Your Potential for Leadership
4	Understanding Yourself	107
5	Understanding Others	137
Pt. 3	Relationships, Environment, and the Practice of Leadership
6	Interacting in Teams and Groups	165
7	Understanding Complex Organizations	195
8	Building Coalitions and Communities	227
9	Leading with Integrity and Moral Purpose	247
Pt. 4	Leadership and Renewal
10	Why Renewal Is Vital to Groups and Organizations	277
11	The Mind, Body, and Soul of the Leader	299
	References	315
	Name Index	329
	Subject Index	334

Fashion From Concept to Consumer

Author: Gini S Frings

Fashion: From Concept to Consumer tells the entire story of how the fashion business works.

It includes the processes involved with producing raw materials, apparel, and accessories, as well as the retail businesses that sell fashion merchandise to the public. Each chapter contains a career focus, chapter objectives, review questions, terminology, and projects to aid in reviewing the subject matter. This edition includes new information on globalization, manufacturing technologies, branding, retailing and more!

An invaluable tool for anyone who wants to know more about fashion and the fashion business, retail store buyers and merchandise managers, or merchandisers and designers working for apparel manufacturers.

Table of Contents:

Table of Contents

I. THE FUNDAMENTALS OF FASHION

1. Fashion Development

2. Consumer Demand and Fashion Marketing

3. Fashion Change and Consumer Acceptance

4. Fashion Research and Resources

II. THE RAW MATERIALS OF FASHION

5. Textile Fiber and Fabric Production

6. Textile Product Development and Marketing

7. Trimmings, Leather, and Fur

III. FASHION MANUFACTURING

8. International Fashion

9. Product and Design Development

10. Apparel Production and Global Sourcing

11. Accessory and Fur Manufacturing

12. Wholesale Marketing and Distribution

IV. FASHION RETAILING

13. Retailing

14. Retail Fashion Merchandising

15. Retail Fashion Marketing

Appendix: Career Guidelines

Fashion Industry Terminology

Index