The Garment Economy / Springer Texts in Business and Economics (PDF)

Michelle Brandstrup studied at Kingston University and obtained her post-graduate education at the Designskolen Kolding, Denmark. With a diploma in tailoring, and also degrees in fashion design, she has been employed in Berlin, Paris and at Christianshavn, in Copenhagen. She is currently a fashion designer at Kabooki, where she has been heading the launch of a new brand. She was nominated for the Scandinavian Designers Nest award.

Léo-Paul Dana is a professor at ICD Business School, and affiliated with LUT School of Business and Management, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland as well as with Sorbonne Business School, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. A graduate of the Faculty of Management at McGill University and of HEC-Montreal, he has served as Marie Curie Fellow at Princeton University and visiting professor at INSEAD. He has published extensively in a variety of journals and is the author of several books.

Daniella Ryding(Ph.D.) is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing, and is both editor and author of several fashion business text books for the Palgrave Series in Luxury Fashion Retailing and Palgrave Springer Nature. The author has published over 50 peer reviewed papers in leading business journals within the field of marketing, including, but not limited to the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, the European Business Review, the International Journal of Consumer Studies, and the Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management. The author enjoys collaborating with a network of international academics to develop contemporary marketing thought. Daniella has a passion for researching consumers in their locations and environments within the areas of digital marketing and the circular economy.

Gianpaolo Vignali is Senior Lecturer in Fashion Business at the University of Manchester (UK). With a first degree in Mathematics, and then a Master's in Strategic Management, his career stages involvedManchester Metropolitan