Chapter 4: The Development of Fashion
The garment industry is sometimes called the _____ or the needle trades
Rag Trade
Unfinished fabrics
Greige Goods
The incoming money that is left over after all the outgoing costs have been deducted.
Profit
Indirect or, non-personal selling aimed at a general audience
Promotion
The founder of French Couture
Charles Frederick Worth
What are magazines, newspapers, and books that deal specifically with a certain industry or trade?
Trade Publications
Good that come into the country from foreign sources
Imports
A collection of styles and designs that will be produced and sold as the firms selection for the given season.
Line
Free promotion
Publicity
Known for stylish, elegant, trend setting designs; has been called the King of Fashion...
Yves Saint Laurent
Give on example of a Trade Associations
CFDA, American Apparel and Footwear Association, National Retail Fed, National Textile Association etc.
Thin, hair like strands that are the basic unit in textiles.
Fibers
Buildings or complexes that house permanent showrooms and sales offices.
Apparel Marts
Route that goods and services take from the original source, to the middle people,to the ultimate user
Channel of Distribution
Design simple, senual women's clothes that stretch and move well; also owns DKNY label.
Donna Karen
Know as the most exquisite fashions.
Haute Couture
Firms or individuals merchants who buy or handle greige goods
Textile Converters
Manufactures having their goods produced overseas is known as...
Off-Shore Production
Also known as Apparel Retailing
Fashion Merchandising
Dominican of Spanish descent; creates romantic, colorful,glamorous fashions with ruffles
Oscar de la Renta
In Paris the designer RTW industry is called
Pret a' porter ( pret ah por-tay)
Continuous strands, usually multiple fibers, ready for knitting, weaving or other processing into cloth.
Yarns
Are trial garments or prototypes...
Samples
Produced specifically by or for a retailer..
Private Label
Combines Japanese design with unusual knits, draped skirts, and eccentric sculptural
Issey Miyake