1. Books

(Note: listing includes only books currently available for purchase. Links are pointing to online bookshops – primarily Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com –, where summaries, tables of contents and/or other readers comments can be browsed)

• Overview of the fashion and luxury goods businesses

• Agins, Teri. "The End of Fashion"

o Allérès, Danielle. “Luxe... Stratégies, marketing” y «Luxe - Métiers et Management atypiques» (in French)

• Burns, Leslie Davis & Nancy O. Bryant. “The Business of Fashion: Designing, Manufacturing, and Marketing”

• Dickerson, Kitty G. “Textiles and Apparel in the Global Economy”

• Frings, Gini Stephens. “Fashion: from Concept to Consumer”

• Grau, François-Marie. “La Haute couture” (in French)

o Jarnow, Jeannette & Kitty Dickerson. "Inside the Fashion Business"

• Jones, Richard M. “The Apparel Industry”

• Saviolo, Stefania & S. Testa. “Strategic management in Fashion Companies” (also available in Italian)

o White, Nicola & Ian Griffiths (Editors). “The Fashion Business: Theory, Practice, Image (Dress, Body, Culture Series)”

• Manufacturing

• Abernathy, Frederick H., et al. "A Stitch in Time: Lean Retailing and the Transformation of Manufacturing - Lessons from the Apparel and Textile Industries"

• Brown, Patty & Janett Rice. “Ready-to-Wear Apparel Analysis”

• Behda, Rajesh. “Managing Productivity in Apparel Industry”

• Glock, Ruth E. & Grace I. Kunz. “Apparel Manufacturing: Sewn Product Analysis”

• Harber, Frances. “Fashion for Profit: from Design Concept to Apparel Manufacturing”. Author website, with first chapter available online.

• Johnson, Maurice J. & Evelyn C. Moore. “Apparel Product Development”

• Kadolph, Sara J. “Quality Assurance for Textiles and Apparel”

• Fashion merchandising

• Jackson Tim & David Shaw (Editors). "Mastering Fashion Buying and Merchandising Management (Macmillan Master Series)"

• Jernigan, Marian H. & Cynthia R. Easterling. “Fashion Merchandising and Marketing”

• Rosenau, Jeremy A. & David L. Wilson. “Apparel Merchandising: The Line Starts Here”

• Stone, Elaine. “Fashion Merchandising: An Introduction”

• Wolfe, Mary G. “The World of Fashion Merchandising”

• Fashion marketing/Marketing of luxury goods

• Campuzano Garcia, Susana. “El Universo del Lujo: una Visión Global y Estratégica de los Amantes del Lujo” (in Spanish)

• Chevalier, Michel & Gérald Mazzalovo. «Pro-Logo » (site for the book; also available in French)

• Diamond, Jay & Ellen Diamond. “Fashion Advertising and Promotion”

• Gladwell, Malcolm. “The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference”

• Hines, Tony "Fashion Marketing: Contemporary Issues"

• Mueller, Carol Stewart & Eleanor Lewit Smiley. “Marketing Today's Fashion”

• Oelkers, Dottie. “Fashion Marketing”

• Silverstein, Michael & Neil Fiske. “Trading Up: The New American Luxury”

§ Also: more information at the book's page at the Boston Consulting Group’s website

• Solomon, Michael R. & Nancy Rabolt. “Consumer Behavior: In Fashion”

• Other

• Vogt, Peter: "Career Opportunities in the Fashion Industry (Career Opportunities Series)"

• White, Nicola. "Reconstructing Italian Fashion: America and the Development of the Italian Fashion Industry (Dress, Body, Culture)"

• Icon Group, Strategic Planning Series: Apparel Industry in Spain: A Strategic Entry Report, 2000

§ First chapter available online here

§ Reading lists and other references

o Bibliography/reading lists on fashion marketing and related subjects by the University of Leeds post-graduate programme on textiles and fashion

o Fashion Work, specialized bookshop based in Milan

o Biblioteca Tremelloni del Tessile e della Moda: searcheable catalog available over the Internet (mostly in Italian)

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