This book is an illuminating exploration of the expanding influence of fashion, encompassing design, technology, sustainability, and business. Despite its widespread influence, the fashion industry can be enigmatic to outsiders. Frances Corner, Head of London College of Fashion, provides a captivating guide into this rapidly expanding, globally interconnected, and ever-evolving industry. Corner’s provocative and intriguing entries delve into the intricate contradictions of fashion, highlighting its values of both technology and craftsmanship, timeless style and fast fashion, bespoke and mass-market, consumption and sustainability, cold, hard numbers, and creative expression. Each entry offers a unique perspective on fashion and its impact on lives worldwide, both positive and negative. (This book may contain a sharpie mark on the top or bottom edge and may show mild signs of shelfwear.)