Cotton : Companies, Fashion and the Fabric of Our Lives.
Material type:
- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781783206872
- 338.4767721
- HD9875 .C688 2016
Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Cotton Incorporated -- The Historical Thread of Cotton -- Appalatch: Democratically Disrupting Domestic Production through Innovation -- Made in the USA: Spotlight on Fashions Unlimited -- Study NY's Domestic Organic Cotton Farm-to-Fashion Supply Chain -- Raleigh Denim: Curating Each Detail to Create the Perfect Jeans -- How the Oranges Allowed Lilly to Blossom from Juices to Dresses -- Eileen Fisher: Timeless Visionary -- Trend Forecasting -- Notes on Contributors -- Back Cover.
This book explores the importance of cotton as a major resource for US fashion businesses. It is rooted in an investigative research project that deployed undergraduate and graduate students and faculty researchers to US fashion businesses that rely on cotton to understand how the resource is sourced, priced, transported, manipulated and sold.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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