Fashion design essentials : 100 principles of fashion design

Summary: This book sets forth a challenge to fashion designers: continue to expand your horizons, exercise your skills and experiment with strategies. Filled with inspiring fashion design details from around the world, Fashion Design Essentials supplies a selection of starting points for fashion designers of all levels, as well as a wide variety of useful examples for each stage of the design process. Inside, you'll find insight on: - How to define concepts and render them - Understanding textiles and the process of selecting fabrics - Developing sewing skills and constructing garments - How to build a reputation and find an audience for your work All 100 insights are beautifully illustrated with real-world fashion designs.

Record details

ISBN: 1592537014
ISBN: 9781592537013
ISBN: 1610580435
ISBN: 1610580435
ISBN: 9781610580434
ISBN: 1610602374
ISBN: 9781610602372
Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations
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Publisher: Beverly, Mass. : Rockport Publishers, ©2011.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Historical reference and reverence -- Emulation and innovation -- Trends: on, off, and adjacent -- Corroborating couture -- Forging identity -- Sensing style -- Fashion equations -- Suits of armor -- Client compatibility -- Customization -- Restraint, impulse, and impact -- Mind mapping -- Net and narrow -- Disposable as investment -- Environmental context -- Acquisitions -- Collaboration -- Articulation of style -- Building and breaking templates -- Pattern instruments -- Stitching tools -- Rendering media -- Taming textiles -- Letters: slopers -- Words: garments -- Sentences: ensembles -- Stories: collections --- Punctuation: details -- closures -- Specialty requisites -- Miscellaneous markers -- Care and feeding of a garment -- Ancient tools and techniques -- Accessory closet -- Vintage patina -- Fashion translations -- Four seasons: a timeline -- Rote, rules, and roughs -- Hand to eye -- Checks and balances -- Machine interface -- Cut, drape, and fold -- Underpinnings and assembly -- Manipulating fullness -- Body mapping -- Uniformity -- Fit -- Mend and alter -- Deconstruct and reconstruct -- Structure and scale -- Anatomically correct -- Roads less traveled -- Camouflage and complement -- Clothes that carry -- Design unto others -- Reshape and reconfigure -- Resurface -- A cut above -- Fringe and fray -- Add, subtract, and preserve -- Change agents -- Drawing the eye -- A-symmetry -- Intarsia: puzzles and missing links -- The reveal -- Cultivated influence -- Curated experience -- Culture filter -- More is more -- Less is more -- Meditation on a dress -- Building on basics -- Design of dissent -- Attitude adjustment -- Myths and archetypes -- Wit -- Blackouts and full immersion -- Representation and abstraction -- Symbols -- Dynamics -- Trompe L'Oeil -- Space and sculpture -- Matters of size: addressing curves -- Dressing for Bowie -- Objects of art -- A designer's inheritance -- Luxury washing -- Copies degrade -- Platforms -- Label maker -- Master and apprentice -- Designing the job -- External influences -- Lifestyle: a rosetta stone -- Fashion portals -- Diversification and specialization -- Crowdsourcing style -- Labors of love: DIY -- Rapid prototyping: twenty-four-hour fashion -- What is good fashion?

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