6 Best Fashion Business Books 2025: The Ultimate Reading List For Fashion and Business Students

1 // The End Of Fashion: By Teri Agins explores the changing landscape of the fashion industry and how it functions from the dawn of haute couture to the consumer guiding the designer in an unfiltered, raw journalistic style and is essential reading for fashion industry experts even today.

2 // The Fashion Business Manual: By FASHIONARY gives you all of the relevant and detailed knocklege on how to build a fashion business. From copywriting logos to picking the right hangers for a brick and mortar store, it doesn't miss a single step.

3 // Fashion Forecasting: By Kathryn McKelvey & Janine Munslow gives a detailed break down of forecasting future tastes, predicting the future of the market and anticipating trends in the world of fashion including interviews with industry professionals.

4 // How To Set Up And Run A Fashion Label: By Toby Meadows the guide to understanding the business side of setting up your own brand. Teaching you how to analyse your market and your product, with numerous case studies.

5 // Textilepedia: By FASHIONARY is exactly what you’ll need if you’ll be sourcing your own fabrics. A dictionary of all your basic tactile and fabric knowledge. It covers weaves, fibers, yarns, care and maintenance etc. A complete reference book for everything fabric related.

6 // Why Fashion Matters: By Frances Corner discusses the economics of the industry and argues the case that fashion is not the frivolous industry we have garnered it to be as it impacts everything form the economy, society to each of us personally as we move through the world.