Fashion Book Stores

Fashion Book Stores

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In this section of the Apparel Search fashion directory you will find information regarding fashion books stores.  In other words, this section will help you located book stores that sell fashion books, textiles books, and other books relevant to the apparel industry.

Visit a fashion library to find tons of books about fashion, clothing & footwear.

Amazon - Amazon might actually be the worlds largest book store.  Not certain about that, but it is a good guess.

FashionDex: If you are new to the fashion industry or an experienced garmento, reading books about fashion and textiles is one of the best things you can do to stay ahead of the competition.  If you are serious about fashion, it is very important to stay educated regarding fibers to fashion.  Read a book about fabrics, manufacturing, pattern making etc.

The Fashion Bookstore: The Fashion Bookstore has the broadest range of fashion, textile, and apparel informational products available anywhere in the world.  Their goal is to bring together everything the apparel professional needs to plan, design, develop, source, and sell a line of clothing, textiles, or accessories.  They have served the apparel industry for 18 years.  Address: 110 E. 9th St. AL-19, Los Angeles, CA 90079 Phone # 213 622-3601 Fax 213 623 1809 e-mail: william@thefashionbookstore.com Contact: William Golant

Encore College Bookstores, Inc. currently offers textbook services at four locations

• King's Books 1613 Oriental Boulevard Brooklyn, NY 11235 (718) 743-8582

• Manhattan Books 150 Chambers Street New York, NY 10007 (212) 385-7395

• Zavelle Bookstore : 1520 North Broad Street Philadelphia, PA. 19121 (215) 763-1514

Overseas Publishers Representatives (OPR) The Source for Fashion Information since 1933. Showroom/store: 247 West 38th St., 12th floor, New York NY 10018. (212) 564- 3954 (800) 666 -MAGS

1. Books: Fashion, Graphic, Textile
2. Fashion Magazines
3. Color Forecasts
4. Color and Trend Seminars
5. Pantone Color Guides
6. Trend Forecasts

You probably already know this but you can also find fashion books from the fashion books store section of Amazon.  By the way, you can also buy clothing on Amazon.

Hennessey + Ingalls: Hennessey + Ingalls in Los Angeles, founded in 1963, is one of the largest art and design bookstores in the country, with an extensive fashion section.

Barnes & Noble: Barnes & Noble stocks fashion books in its stores nationwide and online.

Strand Book Store: The Strand Book Store in New York City is a landmark independent bookstore carrying fashion titles among its miles of books.

Why Specialist Fashion Book Stores Matter

Fashion and textile books are a specialist trade. A general bookshop may stock the season's big illustrated fashion titles, but the working library of the apparel industry — pattern making manuals, grading textbooks, sourcing directories, dictionaries of textile terms, quality assurance references — is stocked in depth only by stores that serve the trade itself. A specialist store shelves those titles together, keeps backlist references in print runs that general stores drop, and can advise on which edition or which level of book fits a student, a pattern room or a production office. That is why this directory separates book stores from publishers: the publisher makes the book, but the specialist store is where the industry's whole library can actually be browsed in one place.

Stores Listed Here

The listings range from the very large to the very specialised. Amazon offers the widest general catalogue and is a practical first search for almost any title. FashionDex, through its book store sections linked from this page, organises fashion, apparel and textile books by working category — directories, design tools, business, technical reference, how-to, dictionaries, sourcing, shopping, grading and pattern making. The Fashion Bookstore in Los Angeles states its goal directly: to bring together everything the apparel professional needs to plan, design, develop, source and sell a line, and its listing carries its 110 E. 9th St. address in the Los Angeles fashion district. Encore College Bookstores and other college bookstores in the listings serve students buying set textbooks near their campuses, including King's Books in Brooklyn and Manhattan Books in New York.

Buying Books for a Course or a Workroom

Before ordering, check the edition: fashion textbooks are revised regularly, and a course or a factory standard may specify a particular edition, as with the multi-edition grading and pattern titles listed in the Fashiondex sections. For workroom purchases, a specialist store can often supply multiple copies of a standard reference for a team. Keep the store's phone and e-mail details from the listing when you order — for older or imported titles, a short conversation with a specialist bookseller is still the fastest way to confirm availability.