MODECollective

MODECollective was created as a resource for young designers, students and fashion enthusiasts entering the professional fashion world.

The goal of this blog is to create an environment where questions, concerns, advice and fashion news and history can be shared in order to educate, mentor and showcase the talent that will lead the next generation of the fashion industry.



Apparel Industry Resources

Books

The End of Fashion by Teri Agins
Fashion for Profit by Frances Harder
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster by Dana Thomas
The Culture Code: An Ingenious Way to Understand Why People Around the World Live and Buy As They Do by Clotaire Rapaille
The Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris by Alicia Drake
Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women by Michael Gross

Business Related Resources


LA Fashion District
Small Business Administration
Soho America
Switchboard
The National Register

Other Internet Resources

Fashion Group International
American Textile Manufacturers Instititue
Apparellink.net
Cotton Incorporated
Fabric Link
Fiber Source
Textile Web
The Wool Bureau
Fashion-Icon
Fashion Planet
Register.Com-Domain registration
Webpromote.com
FashionStake
WonderMODE
DNS Registrars Dotster

Manufacturing & Sourcing

Materials-Fabric Mills and Fiber Products

Burlington Industries
Cone Mills
Courtaulds
Dupont
Dyersburg- "mill direct" sportswear fabric
Guilford Mills
Springs Industries
The Apparel Exchange
Larkin
Fabric Stock Exchange
The Global Textile Network
Sourcing Web
Texinfo


Local-Chicago Area
Mr. Zipper- Notions, Fabrics
Mr. Zipper- We Are So Much More than Zippers

Fine Fabric Sales
724 N. Leavitt
Chicago, IL 60612
312.243.8485

 Fashion and Color Trend Forecasting Services

The Color Association of the United States
Design Option
The Doneger Group
ESP Trendlab
Here & There
Pantone Color Institute
Promostyl
The Tobe Report
WGSN