Fashion & Textile Industry
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American Flannel: How a Band of Entrepreneurs Are Bringing the Art and Business of Making Clothes Back Home
$29.00 Read more“I can confidently say this will be one of my favorite books of 2024.” –Stephen King, bestselling author (and onetime millworker)
“American Flannel is a wonderful book–surprising, entertaining, vivi- Author: Kurutz, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 0593329619
- Language: English
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The Perfect Scent: A Year Inside the Perfume Industry in Paris and New York
$20.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times perfume critic, a stylish, fascinating, unprecedented insider’s view of the global perfume industry, told through two creators working on two very different scents.
No journali- Author: Burr, Chandler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 06 2009
- ISBN10: 0312425775
- Language: English
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Where am I Wearing?
$18.95 Add to cartA journalist travels the world to trace the origins of our clothes
When journalist and traveler Kelsey Timmerman wanted to know where his clothes came from and who made them, he began a journey that w
- Series: Where Am I?
- Author: Timmerman, Kelsey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 24 2012
- ISBN10: 1118277554
- Language: English
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Fashionopolis: Why What We Wear Matters
$19.00 Add to cart*NYTBR Paperback Row Selection * The Independent‘s Best Fashion Book on Sustainability * Ralph Nader’s Top Ten of the Year*
An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry a- Author: Thomas, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 073522403X
- Language: English
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The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion
$19.95 Add to cartThe award-winning classic on why we must revolutionise the fashion industry
*Selected by Emma Watson for her Ultimate Book List*Fashion is political. From the red carpets of the Met Gala to online fa
- Author: Hoskins, Tansy E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0745346618
- Language: English
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Worn: A People’s History of Clothing
$19.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A sweeping and captivatingly told history of clothing and the stuff it is made of–an unparalleled deep-dive into how everyday garments have transformed our lives,… [more below]
- Author: Thanhauser, Sofi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 525566732
- Language: English
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Fibershed: Growing a Movement of Farmers, Fashion Activists, and Makers for a New Textile Economy
$34.95 Read moreA new “farm-to-closet” vision for the clothes we wear–by a leader in the movement for local textile economies
There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land,
- Author: Burgess, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 1603586636
- Language: English
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Sundressed: Natural Fabrics and the Future of Clothing
$29.00 Read moreFor conscious consumers, buying clothes has never been more complicated. Even as fashion brands tout their sustainability, the industry is plagued by pollution, waste, and poor working conditions. If … [more below]
- Author: Tonti, Lucianne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1642832715
- Language: English
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The Conscious Closet: The Revolutionary Guide to Looking Good While Doing Good
$18.00 Add to cartFrom journalist, fashionista, and clothing resale expert Elizabeth L. Cline, “the Michael Pollan of fashion,”* comes the definitive guide to building an ethical, sustainable wardrobe you’ll love.
Clot- Author: Cline, Elizabeth L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 1524744301
- Language: English
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We Kept Our Towns Going: The Gossard Girls of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula
$19.95 Read moreWITH A FOREWORD BY LISA M. FINE, MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY–Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is known for its natural beauty and severe winters, as well as the mines and forests where men labored to feed in… [more below]
- Author: Wong, Phyllis Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 196
- Publish Date: March 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1611864208
- Language: English
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Get It Made: Build Your Clothing Line from Idea to Reality
$35.98 Add to cartAre you new to the apparel industry but have a dream to make a clothing line or product? Are you intimidated by contacting clothing factories or fabric mills? Are you having trouble willing your cloth
- Author: Martell, Mindy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 1954801521
- Language: English
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The Fabric of Civilization: How Textiles Made the World
$19.99 Add to cartFrom Neanderthal string to 3D knitting, an “expansive” global history that highlights “how textiles truly changed the world” (Wall Street Journal)
The story of humanity is the story of textiles–as o- Author: Postrel, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: December 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 1541617622
- Language: English
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Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism
$19.99 Add to cartA call to action for consumers everywhere, Consumed asks us to look at how and why we buy what we buy, how it’s created, who it benefits, and how we can solve the problems created by a wasteful system… [more below]
- Author: Barber, Aja
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1538709848
- Language: English
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Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
$32.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
In this candid and riveting memoir, for the first time ever, Nike founder and board chairman Phil Knight shares the inside story of the company’s early days as an intrepid s- Author: Knight, Phil
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 26, 2016
- ISBN10: 1501135910
- Language: English
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Glossy: Ambition, Beauty, and the Inside Story of Emily Weiss’s Glossier
$0.00 Read moreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – Financial Times Best Book of the Year
The “compulsively readable narrative of beauty, business, privilege, and mogul-dom” (The New York Times) that reveals–for th- Author: Meltzer, Marisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982190604
- Language: English
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The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever
$19.99 Add to cartA solid, hard-hitting, and uncompromising journalistic look at the fashion industry.
The time when “fashion” was defined by French designers whose clothes could be afforded only by elite has ended. Now
- Author: Agins, Teri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 22, 2000
- ISBN10: 0060958200
- Language: English
