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Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion – Dress in the modern world is made from a wide variety of materials. Generally, the components of dress are created and assembled by some technological process. The development of and advances in technologies used to produce fashionable dress products, however, are rarely viewed as factors related to fashion change. By exploring selected examples that originate from the time of the Industrial Revolution up to the twenty-first century, technological innovations in materials and techniques used to produce dress can be examined in relation to the fashion changes that they created or influenced. Such diverse areas as footwear, headwear, eyeglasses, jewelry, hairstyling, cosmetics, and elements and styles of men’s and women’s dress, ranging from undergarments to swimwear, all reflect a connection between technology and new fashions.

Innovation intelligence and entrepreneurship in the fashion industry – Over the course of economic globalization, the innovation aspect of entrepreneurship has gained critical importance in almost all sectors, including the fashion industry. The emergence of an entrepreneurial economy stimulated a new type of competition in the fashion industry and changed the face and nature of the competitive advantage around the world. In this context, the introductory part of the study elaborates on “innovative entrepreneurship” by focusing on the theories and definitions of innovation and entrepreneurship.

Managerial Fads and Fashions: The Diffusion and Rejection of Innovations