Trade journals or magazines are written for people working in the fashion industry. They feature articles that focus on contemporary topics of interest to fashion professionals and will often include industry-specific advertising and job postings. Some useful fashion trade journals we have are:
The Business of Fashion is a leading fashion industry website. Leeds Beckett doesn’t have a subscription, but the website offers complimentary student membership to its articles. To create a free account, sign up using your University email address. You can then edit your Account Details and choose Your Membership.
At the bottom of the membership packages it says:
Are you a student? Activate complimentary access.
This then enables you to fill in your course details and you can then get unlimited access to articles.
As we don't have a University account you will need to contact BoF directly if you have any access issues: support@businessoffashion.com
An online portal which offers fully cross-searchable access to an expanding range of Berg content collections - including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, eBooks, reference works, images, and much more.
Serving the marketing, advertising and media communities.
To gain access, you will need to register with Campaign using your Leeds Beckett email address - personal email addresses do not work.
Note - if you have previously registered with Campaign and cannot access resources please sign out and sign in again
Registration gives you full access to Campaign UK. It may be easier to find individual articles with different suppliers via our 'Journals' collection: Campaign Journal content.
To register use your Leeds Beckett email / select a unique password. A subsequent 'Welcome' email means that your account is set up, and you do not need to complete the 'About You' page for access. If you decide to, enter and 'Leeds Beckett University', 'Student/Academic' & 'Education' where applicable. After signing in to Campaign. you will be able to access CampaignUK, but not Campaign US/ASIA/AI. If you have forgotten your password, enter your email address at Reset your password and reset via the emailed link.
Access to over 500 talks each specially commissioned from leading world authorities and practitioners. Provides access to lectures and case studies by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia. Subjects include finance, management, leadership, marketing and strategy.
This database holds a collection of Industry Market Research and Industry Risk Ratings covering a wide range of industries within the United Kingdom.
This database provides up-to-date information on companies, industries and countries across the world.
A database of market research reports into European, UK-specific and US consumer markets. You can search for relevant publications by market category. Please note Mintel has a 200 concurrent user license.
Contains financial and accounting information for the larger companies across the world. The information includes: standardised and "as reported" financials (including restated reports), SEC filings, detailed earnings estimates including recommendations, ownership, stock data, news and ratings.
Offers guidelines on advertising best practice and evidence and insights from the world's leading brands.
Also publishes leading journals including Admap, Market Leader, the Journal of Advertising Research and the International Journal of Market Research.
A leading trend forecasting service, containing resources for fashion design, real time information on trends and portfolios of resources connected to product categories.
XpertHR offers more than 24,000 articles from the most authoritative sources in HR, along with a specially commissioned employment law reference manual, a model policies and documents service and various other services.
Be Creative: making a living in the new culture industries In this exciting new book Angela McRobbie charts the 'euphoric' moment of the new creative economy, as it rose to prominence in the UK during the Blair years, and considers it from the perspective of contemporary experience of economic austerity and uncertainty about work and employment. McRobbie makes some bold arguments about the staging of creative economy as a mode of 'labour reform'; she proposes that the dispositif of creativity is a fine-tuned instrument for acclimatising the expanded, youthful urban middle classes to a future of work without the raft of entitlements and security which previous generations had struggled to win through the post-war period of social democratic government. Adopting a cultural studies perspective, McRobbie re-considers resistance as 'line of flight' and shows what is at stake in the new politics of culture and creativity. She incisively analyses 'project working' as the embodiment of the future of work and poses the question as to how people who come together on this basis can envisage developing stronger and more protective organisations and associations. Scattered throughout the book are excerpts from interviews with artists, stylists, fashion designers, policy-makers, and social entrepreneurs.
Careers in Creative Industries [ebook] Comprising original empirical studies of career-making in the creative sector, this book takes in theatre, music, film, TV, visual arts, fashion design, and architecture as creative industries. This format facilitates comparative analysis of central features of career-making within as well as across both specific industries and national contexts. The book is at the forefront and intersection of contemporary career research and research on work in creative industries / the cultural economy, intertwining both subjective and objective approaches to and dimensions of career. The contributors move beyond the dichotomies that have characterized recent career theory and work on creative industries to examine factors that facilitate and restrict horizontal and vertical mobility. Spanning a diverse range of case studies, from German theatre to Danish fashion, this book is a valuable reference for scholars of the creative and cultural industries and important reading for thoser interested in careers more generally.
Don't Get a Job... Make a Job: how to make it as a creative graduate Too often a design or architecture degree is seen as a means to an end (a job in an established practice). But imagine for one moment that there are no employers, no firms to send your resumé to, no interviews to be had--what would you do? How would you forge your own path after graduation? The current economic climate has seen many graduates chasing a finite number of positions. The most ingenious and driven designers have found weird and wonderful ways of making opportunities for themselves, often by applying their skills across the creative disciplines of art, design, architecture, and interiors. Knowing what you want from your design career and being able to adapt your strategy to suit is basic and vital--just like in the wild, designers need to evolve. The book celebrates the various strategies that students and graduates are taking to gain exposure, while also including interviews and inspirational advice from those who are now enjoying success as a result of their creative approach to employment.
The Fashion Industry and Its Careers The Fashion Industry and Its Careers, 3rd Edition, offers an exploration of the fashion industry - from raw materials to marketing to the ultimate consumer - and explores fashion careers across the board. For each career covered, readers will learn about what to expect on the job, required education and training, and the relationship of the role to the industry as a whole. The third edition is fully updated with recent developments in technology, world economics and globalization and effects on industry sectors and career opportunities. Through current, applied industry information and personal assessments throughout, students gain a critical understanding of what careers match their aptitudes, skill sets, and interests - and how to begin down a path to a successful career in the fashion industry. New to this edition: -In-depth job descriptions for a wider range of careers expanded to include Marketing Director, Product Marketing Manager, Brand Marketing Manager, Digital Marketing Manager, Web Site Marketing Personnel, Creative Art Director, Copy Writer, Customer Service and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) Staff in Chapter 9; and Digital Media Artist, Graphic Designer, Fashion Journalist, and Fashion Blogger in Chapter 12. -New Profiles are presented at the conclusion of chapters-from young executives and entrepreneurs, such as freelance trend forecaster and fashion entrepreneur Erin Burke (Chapter 11), Marivi Avalos Monarrez, Chief Marketing Officer and Managing Director for Asia at Fashionbi (Chapter 9), and Mandy Raines-Cordia, Women's Contemporary Apparel Buyer for Zappos.com (Chapter 10); to legends and true teachers, like David Wolfe, Creative Director of The Doneger Group (Chapter 1), fashion journalist Robin Givhan (Chapter 12), and fashion educator Dr. Catherine Amoroso Leslie at Kent State University (Chapter 14).¿ -Organizational changes to the unit structure align the content with current industry practice and emphasize career areas with the greatest growth potential. New Chapter 12 familiarizes readers with the growing career sector of digital media and visual communication. -A fully updated photo program contains more than 75 new photographs and a 16-page color insert of all-new full color images. -Social Media Strikes boxes interspersed throughout the text explore how social media trends are integrated into the various levels of the industry and describe the impact of Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Linked In, and more. - Case Studies in Career Exploration showcase profiles of companies, interviews with individuals, industry scenarios, and insider tips - The Job Search boxes feature sample advertisements for actual positions in fields discussed within each chapter
How to Set up and Run a Fashion Label No matter how talented you are as a designer, if you are going to run a successful fashion label you also need to know about business - from marketing and PR to manufacturing your collection, and where to find the money to finance it all. In How to Set Up and Run a Fashion Label 2nd edition, Toby Meadows presents a no-nonsense guide to running your own business, whether it is within the clothing, accessories or footwear sectors. Packed with tips, case studies and tasks to help you analyse yourself, your market and your product, the book is designed for anyone wanting to start their own fashion business.This new, expanded edition contains information on e-commerce, sustainability, five new case studies and updated images throughout.
Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers, Fourth Edition, is still your best guide to showing your designs, skill sets, and creativity, to get you that job. In new images throughout, the book shows examples of croquis books, spec and flat drawings, and visual research presentations from both fashion professionals and students. From concept through finished product, Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers is an indispensable tool to help you prepare your career for the next chapter. New to this edition ¿ Helpful Hints at the end of each chapter help you to make critical decisions ¿ Expanded Glossary now features knitwear terms ¿ Introduces how to develop a successful fashion portfolio ¿ Expanded discussion and examples of visual research presentation layoutsStatistics portal, allowing you to access a wide variety of statistics, and download them as images, Powerpoint presentations or Excel spreadsheets. Includes comprehensive support information, allowing you to fully get to grips with the data and place it in context.
Includes statistics such as:
A comprehensive resource funded by the ESRC to support researchers, teachers and policymakers who depend on high-quality social and economic data. It contains single point of access to a wide range of secondary data including large-scale government surveys, international macrodata, business microdata, qualitative studies and census data from 1971 to 2011.
