Summary: In the glamorous world of haute couture, marketing means fanfare, glitter, and VIPs. This program surveys the fashion industry's high-profile approach to image-marketing at the influential Dallas Fashion Awards; a Gucci store opening party in Milan; the elite ESCADA showroom in Dusseldorf; and a photo shoot in Berlin with renowned photographer Albert Watson. Branding, the use of supermodels to...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Every outfit sends a message. This video shows how to send the right one at the appropriate time-without breaking the budget. Topics include the functional and social characteristics of clothes; the concepts of style and fashion; planning a wardrobe that accommodates work, school, and leisure; and shopping for value and price. Indispensable! Correlates to all applicable National and State...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Going behind the scenes to discover how the fashion industry works, this video features commentary from industry insiders as it guides young people through the skills and education that a career in fashion requires. Among the high-skilled positions profiled are fashion designer, textile designer, technical designer, technical illustrator, buyer, entrepreneur, marketer, and teacher. Correlates...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: The formal dresses of DeBora Rachelle Designs have been worn at major award programs and formal dances all over the world. This Telly Award-winning video shows what it takes to be a successful fashion designer and provides a behind-the-scenes look at a fitting session. The program also gives viewers a clear picture of the educational requirements, typical starting salary, and employment outlook...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Take your students on a whirlwind tour of the natural world and the fashion world, ancient times and modern pastimes, and interiors and exteriors with this lively and entertaining video. Narrated by an award-winning actress, it will give them a thorough grounding in the timeless principles of design: balance, rhythm, scale, proportion, emphasis, and harmony. Correlates to all applicable...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: In the fast-paced world of fashion merchandising, every season brings with it a demand for something new and different. In this program, a designer who owns her own boutique, students developing apparel as a class project, and professors from Iowa State University's highly respected fashion department talk about where they get their fashion ideas and describe how clothing makes its way from the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: If the average consumer only knew the mind-boggling process behind the yarn in a sock or sweater! This video illustrates yarn production methods and the various properties of woven and knitted fabrics. It explores the reasons for twisting yarns, discusses S and Z twists and plied yarns, and shows fibers being prepared for spinning as well as finished slivers. Students witness fancy yarn...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: What wheat is to bread, cotton is to textiles. But the "white gold" that has lined the coffers of cloth manufacturers for centuries has also brought about economic and environmental harm. This program examines the global impact of cotton production and its effect on vulnerable populations. Viewers learn how pesticides, insecticides, and irrigation systems used to grow cotton have increased...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Somewhere along the line clothing met fashion, and neither has been the same since. In this program, historian Valerie Steele, of the Fashion Institute of Technology, and other experts interpret the history of humankind-from the ancients to the moderns-through the intriguing context of costume. Topics include the origins of clothing; symbolism associated with clothing, such as gender and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: From Paris to London, Monte Carlo to Milan, and Munich to LA, taste-makers Li Edelkoort, Gucci's Tom Ford, and Werner Baldessarini, of Hugo Boss, seek to identify the spirit of the age wherever they can find it-and then translate it into the next big trend in fashions. In this program, Edelkoort, Ford, Baldessarini, and others unravel the intricacies of clothing-oriented trend-spotting. In...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Teenage students spend most of their earned income on their wardrobes, and young adults spend up to ten percent of their full-time income likewise. This live-action video helps develop the skills needed to make smart decisions when purchasing clothing. It covers the importance of planning for purchases and illustrates how to take a clothing inventory. It also explains how personality, climate,...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In Italy, the finest cloth in Europe is woven and hand-assembled to the exacting specifications of prestigious fashion houses-and it comes at a very steep price. This program visits an exclusive fabric fair, the wool looms of Zegna, the silk printing presses of T.J.S.S., a clothing assembly plant, and a fashion trade show to demonstrate how Italy's best craftspeople turn thread into cloth and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: When a play is performed, all eyes are on the actors-which means the costume department can make or break a production. This program introduces skills and responsibilities essential to theatrical costume design, technology, and management. After outlining the history of stage costuming, the video shows how an actor's attire reveals his or her character, how a designer researches and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Get your students ready to sew! This video covers safety in the sewing lab, notions for sewing, hand-sewing basics, and an introduction to the sewing machine. Sewing projects include a pillowcase, fleece hats and mittens, a tote bag, name pennants, pillows, and other easy projects from Haan Crafts and To-Sew. Correlates to all applicable National and State Educational Standards including the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Called Britain's most consistently original, outrageous, eccentric, and controversial designer, Vivienne Westwood is also an esteemed professor of fashion at Berlin's Academy of Arts. This program profiles Westwood while capturing the student experience under her rigorous tutelage. Footage of her apprentices-in the classroom, learning the ropes at her London workshop, and putting on a fashion...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: With companies of all sizes moving toward a corporate casual dress code, our clothing choices have changed dramatically as the lines between work and leisure have begun to blur. This video allows viewers to review corporate dress requirements, look at some of the options for leisure wear, and see how they can purchase clothing to serve both areas of their lives..all from the perspective of...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Use this video to introduce your students to the elements of design: color, line, shape, form, pattern, and texture. In addition to the customary design disciplines-interior, clothing, landscape, and architecture-the video also features more unusual venues like the family dog, kids, and professional models. Called "a good introduction to the basic elements of design" by Instructional Video....
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Fashion show runways, photo shoots, the playgrounds of the chic and stylish: this program illustrates the cycles of women's couture through the '50s, '60s, and '70s-and the portrayal of women in the media as they progressed through the postwar decade, the civil rights movement, Beatlemania, the Vietnam War, and the era of women's lib. Plenty of designer names are dropped, both from then and...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: Blue, black, skinny, flared-no matter what form they take, denim jeans are an American icon. And no jeans are more iconic than those made by Levi Strauss & Company, which introduced riveted denim overalls in the later decades of the 19th century and then, starting in the 1920s, offered similarly constructed pants. This CNBC Original documentary goes behind the scenes at Levi's, telling the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: While human technology has produced a range of useful fibers, the world of textiles continues to value nature's magnificent materials. This video introduces students to the differences between natural and synthetic fibers, then divides the first category into animal, vegetable, and mineral. A range of protein-based fibers are discussed, including their herd-animal sources and the methods by...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Technology and a booming U.S. economy are driving innovation in the clothing industry that is beneficial to businesses and consumers alike. This program examines trends in apparel marketing and changes in manufacturing and distribution. Bricks-and-mortar marketing via retail, department, discount, specialty, and outlet stores; catalog sales; shopping by television; and online buying are all...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Fashion merchandising begins with a designer, who conceptualizes garment styling and fabrication, and progresses through wholesaling where merchandise is manufactured and sold to retail stores. This comprehensive program presents a look at professionals in design and wholesale showrooms discussing how they buy fabrics, design, sell, and produce clothing lines. Viewers learn about the...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: The apparel industry has become far more than a showcase for a designer's talent-it's now the battleground of billion-dollar corporations. This program enters the world of fashion superbrands to find out how and why they have invaded not only our wardrobes, but our minds. With help from neuroscientist and marketing expert Dr. Gemma Calvert, who administers an MRI scan to an avid fashion...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: CPD is one of the leading fashion fairs worldwide, and Manfred Kronen is its owner. To him, fashion equals emotion, so he never fails to market them together at his huge exhibition hall in Dusseldorf. This program features Kronen and the CPD staff in action, tracking them from final arrangements through the events of opening day, including a Toni Gard fashion show and a photo shoot for German...
Format: software, multimedia
Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005