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Lian belongs to a secret Hong Kong group that investigates corporate corruption. When a girl's body washes up on the beach, an American businessman seems connected.

Introduces readers to fashion and the fashion industry.

Presents an account of the author's attempts to learn about the lives, personalities, and dreams of the people who make his five favorite clothing items, and discusses the forces, politics, and economics of globalized labor in Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, and other places where garment workers live in poverty.

Amy Odell takes readers behind the stage of New York's hottest fashion shows to meet the world's most influential models, designers, celebrities, editors, and photographers. She introduces an industry powered by larger-than-life characters: she meets the intimidating Anna Wintour and the surprisingly gracious Rachel Zoe, not to mention the hilarious Chelsea Handler, and more. Amy artfully layers in something else: ultimately this book is about how the fashion industry is an exaggerated mirror of human fallibility--reflecting our desperate desire to belong, to make a mark, to be included.

Introduces careers working in the fashion and beauty industries, and using science, technology, engineering, and math skills.

Find out how all about the supply chain, the conditions of workers around the world, and who makes money on the final purchase price of a garment. Discover what environmental impacts your fashion purchases have on the planet, too.

Traces the origins and history of the fashion industry over the last 25,000 years, highlighting influential people, events, styles, and trends and profiling popular contemporary designers, models, couture houses, fabrics, trade unions, and organizations.