Fairchild Books Fashion for Schools: School Version • ABC-CLIO

Fairchild Books Fashion for Schools brings content from the world's leading publisher in fashion education to an interactive online platform customized for the high school classroom.

Prepare students for careers in fashion with Fairchild Books Fashion for Schools: an online learning platform featuring content from fashion educators and industry professionals. A wide range of topics from design and textiles and marketing and sustainability empowers students to build their knowledge along different career pathways in the world of fashion.

Fairchild Books Fashion for Schools is developed with content from Fairchild Books, the world’s leading publisher in fashion education. The digital platform features embedded study tools including flashcards, slideshows, and quizzes, and career-building modules that walk students through the steps of creating a portfolio, gaining real-world experience, and applying for a job.

Features

Content from Fairchild Books, the world's leading publisher of textbooks used in fashion schools today.
Dynamic range of content covers fashion as a business as well as a creative activity, including illustration, design, and sewing—all supported by text and video.
Rich audiovisual resources, including runway photographs, historical images, videos, and slideshows.
Flashcards, quizzes, and activities help students check their understanding and apply what they've learned.
Career-building modules offer step-by-step guidance for applying to fashion school, building a portfolio, and gaining real-world experience.
Advanced search, save, and citation tools, including the ability to export to research platforms such as EasyBib, NoodleTools, and RefWorks.

Introduction to Fashion • Why Fashion? • How Fashion Changes	History of Fashion • Exploring Fashion History • History of Modern Fashion: 1900 to the Present • Shaping Style: Influential Designers	Design • The Design Process • Fashion Illustration
Skills for Designers • Draping • Patternmaking • Sewing	Textiles • Fabrics • The Textile Industry	The Fashion Industry • Introduction to the Fashion Business • Creating a Product • Buying and Sourcing • Retail Basics • The Apparel Industry
Marketing • Marketing Basics • Understanding Customers • Merchandising	Fashion in Society • The Politics of Style
Ethics and Fashion • Social Responsibility • Sustainability	Careers • Careers in Fashion

ABC-CLIO Solutions School Editions

Offering effective technology for your library and created specifically for middle and high school students, ABC-CLIO Solutions Schools Edition provides authoritative coverage of essential topics in U.S. history and government, world history, geography, and a range of multicultural and popular culture subjects.

Each online ABC-CLIO Solution includes four innovative components:

A COMPREHENSIVE REFERENCE LIBRARY with content from more than 230,000 primary sources and entries encompassing audio, video, photographs, illustrations, maps, and rich media.

A STANDARDS-BASED CURRICULUM updated daily by a team of subject-specific editorial experts and supported by an extensive range of instructional material.

A DEEP COLLECTION OF MODEL COMMENTARIES from noted scholars that have been specially commissioned to foster critical thinking stimulated by exposure to varying points of view.

AN EDUCATOR SUPPORT CENTER containing valuable professional development tools as well as relevant resources such as discussion points, activities, lesson plans, and research lists.