Fashion Design and Product Development

Harold Carr

ISBN 10: 0632028939 / ISBN 13: 9780632028931

Published by John Wiley and Sons Ltd, 1993

About this Item

Sets out to explain fashion design and product development as an integrated process, the function of which is to market a continuous stream of garments at a profit. It explores materials, manufacture, costs, quality and the organization of the design and development process. Num Pages: 192 pages, 42 illustrations. BIC Classification: AKTA; AKTX; KND; KNP. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education; (XV) Technical / Manuals. Dimension: 242 x 170 x 11. Weight in Grams: 324. . 1993. 1st Edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fashion Design and Product Development
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0632028939
• ISBN 13: 9780632028931
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book explains fashion design and product development as a total, integrated process whose function is to market a continuous stream of new clothes at a profit. It explores materials, manufacture, costs, quality and the organisation of the design and product development process.

About the Author

Harold Carr joined the clothing industry after graduating from Cambridge University and worked in a number of production management jobs in London, Nottingham and Scotland. He began learning at the London College of Fashion in 1969. He is the author of several books on the clothing industry, including The Technology of Clothing Manufacture, which he co-wrote with Barbara Latham.

John Pomcroy became involved in the textile and clothing area on joining ICI Fibres after graduating with a research degree in chemistry. He later worked as a clothing factory manager and as a buying controller for a leading chain store group, before becoming a lecturer at the Polytechnic of the South Bank and the London College of Fashion.