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Book

Fashion design essentials : 100 principles of fashion design

Call Number

  • 746.92 C1465 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Beverly, Mass. : Rockport Publishers, 2011.

Physical Description

208 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 27 cm.

Contents

  • Historical reference and reverence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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