David Shaw worked in fashion buying for over 20 years for some of the UK's most famous high street fashion retailers. He is now an academic, consultant trainer and writer on fashion retailing and marketing. David has lectured at the London College of Fashion, Nottingham Trent University, Middlesex University, University of Surrey, Northumbria University and The Institute Marangoni in the UK, as well as the Dublin Institute of Technology and Macquarie University, Sydney. He has previously published four titles on fashion buying, marketing and management for Routledge, Macmillan and Springer-Verlag.

DAVID SHAW is one of the UK's leading fashion marketing & retailing academics and writers, working freelance with many international universities including the Institute Marangoni and The Dublin Institute of Technology.