CONFEZIONE, MODELLISTICA, LINGERIE, BEACHWEAR, TSHIRT, MAGLIERIA

The changing status of knitwear in high fashion is a fascinating history in which the threads of socio-cultural revolutions and fashion design are closley knit together. By unravelling its ups and downs, in different places and eras, this book starts to shed a light on the origins of our current perspective on knitwear. Due to knitwear's associations with hobby culture, femininity and crafts, it is too often overlooked that it can also be something highly fashionable, experimental and a daring choice for fashion designers. Knitwear's contemporary comeback is in fact a vogue for something that never really disappeared. Body hugging cling, jersey sportswear, raw knits, sculptural volumes, lace-like body nets...the possibilities of knitting make it an endless source of inspiration for fashion designers. This book starts to tug at the yarn of knitwear's hidden history, investigating different production methods, social histories and the aesthetic (r)evolutions of knitwear in fashion. With topics ranging from grandad chic to utilitarian jumpers, from fashionable stockings to 3D knits, the everlasting appeal of twinsets and the formless in fashion...this book takes a closer look at something we all own but that is often simply taken for granted: knitwear. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the Fashion Museum in Antwerp.

Technical Drawing is an essential skill in the fashion industry. Technical drawings contain information that is essential for designers, buyers, machinists, pattern cutters, and production teams. TECHNICAL DRAWING Volume 1, BASIC COURSE BOOK, explains the basics of making a technical drawing. First, the standard format and tools are introduced. This is followed by step-to-step instructions on how to draw a number of different types of garments. Then techniques are shown for rendering textiles and adding individual style to the drawings. The accompanying CD contains design templates and examples of clothing pieces, fabrics and design presentations.

Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks explores many major names working in the fashion industry today. Photographs, sketches, mood boards, line-ups, toiles, fabric swatches and more all contribute to the creation of ideas for fashion designs, and here they are brought together for the first time to show how the final work is conceived and developed.Juxtaposing the garments on the catwalk and in lookbooks with the original research material and with finished illustrations allows for a new perspective on the working methods of leading international designers and on the role of different media in the creation of their work, making the book a fascinating resource for both students and designers.Numerous leading designers, including John Galliano, Dries Van Noten, Antonio Marras for Kenzo, Yohji Yamamoto and Vivienne Westwood, are interviewed alongside their sketchbooks, discussing the roles they play in evolution of their work, and how they inform and encourage their creative processes. The result is in an inspirational overview of cutting-edge design today.

A few years ago, when Laird Borrelli’s bestselling Fashion Illustration Now was published, few commentators predicted the great renaissance in illustration that has now taken place.Now, fuelled by the book’s publication, illustration is booming as never before.Fashion Illustration Next focuses on the most innovative and exciting of the newly established names and a host of stars in the making, showing the highly distinctive styles of more than 40 international illustrators from 15 countries. It represents work not only from the world’s most influential fashion and style magazines, but also includes unpublished work either specially commissioned for Fashion Illustration Next or drawn from the artists’ own collections.Complete with a self-portrait by each artist to accompany biographies and contact details, the result is one of the most irresistible and indispensable fashion publications of recent years.Laird Borrelli is the Senior Fashion Editor at Style.com in New York City. A fashion historian and writer, her publications include Fashion Illustration Now and Net Mode. She has curated numerous international projects and exhibitions.

First-hand experience and passion for fashion illustration were the driving forces behind the creation of Essential Fashion Illustration: Men. The first half of the book focuses on technical drawings of the human body. The second half then branches out to fashion illustration using media such as watercolor, pastels, acrylics, and pencils. Essential Fashion Illustration: Men is both a didactic tool and a base from which fashion illustrators can build their own unique styles.Award-winning fashion illustrator and designer Chidy Wayne is creating his niche in the international fashion scene. The education he received from the Instituto Europeo di Design in Barcelona along with hands-on experience as a men's fashion design assistant at Antoni Miro and a costume designer for the Festival Grec in 2006 lay a solid foundation for this up-and-coming star. Chidy has the opportunity to show off his flair in his first book, Essential Fashion Illustration: Men.

From the first rough sketch pursuing the development of an idea into fabric choice and draping style, fashion design is an exercise in imagination and problem solving. When it comes to documenting the evolution of fashion as culture, we could safely say that illustration has become fashion design's number one ambassador, covering a visual timeline of materials, techniques and styles that have graced the fashion world over the past century. This book features more than 250 illustrations. Practical exercises will guide you through creative activities focused on contemporary fashion illustration. The exercises include suggestions and tips, and are executed by practicing contemporary illustrators. Instruction provided will allow designers to improve their drawing skills and communicate their vision effectively through a range of illustration mediums that incorporate color as a contributing element for both style and texture. With this special attention to color and how it is perceived the illustrations highlight how subtle nuances or striking changes can occur when rendered using different techniques in gouache, watercolor, pencil, pastels or digital, and how these materials can transform the feel and mood of each illustration.

The T-shirt is one of the designer's favourite medias. In Pectore shows over one hundred T-shirts designed in Spain from the 80s until today. This book was presented at the International Typography Congress in Valencia (Spain) and sponsored by the Spanish Professional Designers Association.

La moda scandinava è stata a lungo ammirata per i suoi tagli eleganti ed eleganti e per l'estetica. Breaking the Pattern è il primo autentico libro di sartoria che mette in risalto la bellezza dello stile scandinavo. Completo di fotografie straordinarie, chiare illustrazioni e istruzioni, questo libro ti mostra come creare un armadio per capsule coerente - completo di una collezione di 20 capi facili da realizzare, indossare e combinare tra loro.La coppia di cucitori finlandese dietro l'etichetta di moda sartoriale Named, Laura e Saara offre una seducente selezione di top, vestiti, gonne e pantaloni per la sarta moderna. Costruirai le tue abilità mentre lavori sul libro e con molte varianti suggerite per ogni capo, c'è molto spazio per aggiungere i tuoi tocchi personali e le peculiarità a ogni design.Portandoti oltre i modelli presenti in questo libro, Breaking the Pattern ti ispirerà non solo a costruire il tuo repertorio di cucito, ma anche a diventare più sicuro con il tuo cucito.Sei fogli modello full-size sono inclusi in questo pacchetto pulito. I modelli sono disponibili in una gamma di taglie dalle taglie da 8 a 22 del Regno Unito (da 34 a 50 EUR), con informazioni concise su come misurare te stesso e trovare la vestibilità perfetta.

Since 1924, date of the Ballets Russes and Coco Chanel's stage encounter for the creation of the Blue Train, fashion has not ceased to be interested in the world of dance. Yves Saint Laurent and Roland Petit, Gianni Versace and Maurice Béjart, Christian Lacroix and the Paris Opera, Jean-Paul Gaultier and Régine Chopinot ... At each meeting his style. This book traces a century of complicity between the greatest couturiers and choreographers on the international scene. Fashion sketches, photos of sewing workshops and shows unveil the underside of these two footsteps where the search for shapes and colors matches that of movement.

Si tratta del primo volume di una serie di 5 (gli altri titoli in programma sono “Il Gilet, il Bustino, l’Abitino”, “Il Pantalone”, “La Camicia, la Camicetta”, “Il Capospalla”) tesa ad introdurre Il Metodo Verticale sul mercato tecnico-professionale della moda femminile quale via più efficace per raggiungere la perfezione nell’esercizio della funzione di Fashion Designer. In particolare, Il Metodo Verticale esprime il suo modo di essere nel voler approfondire l’argomento senza ‘rimandare’, cercando di entrare nel vivo dell’oggetto stesso. Pertanto, questo innovativo metodo obbliga lo studente a percorrere tutte le tappe passando per più figure professionali:FIGURINISTA – Una volta messo il capo campione definitivo sul manichino, completo di tutti i suoi accessori, di tutti i suoi particolari, verrà ricopiato dal figurinista affinché tutte le schede di lavorazione possano essere completate. Questa operazione guiderà la produzione. Inoltre, se il figurinista è dotato di una ‘vena artistica’, potrà trovare collocazione presso l’editoria di riviste specializzate e/o di tendenze moda.MODELLISTA – Il modellista è la figura professionale che crea il cartamodello utile per il taglio del capo. Interpreta uno schizzo o un figurino trasformandolo, insieme al prototipista, in un capo concreto. Trova collocazione presso le aziende produttrici sia di linee proprie che di produzione per le firme di alta gamma oltre agli studi tecnici professionali o di servizi. Ha contatti diretti con la parte progettuale, con la prototipia e con il reparto produzione.SVILUPPO TAGLIE – La sviluppatrice è la figura professionale che trasforma il cartamodello base ‘sdifettato’,  cioè corretto e proclamato valido per la produzione, nei cartamodelli utili per vestire tutte le taglie. Trova collocazione presso le aziende produttrici sia di linee proprie che di produzione per le firme di alta gamma. Inoltre, presso studi tecnici professionali o di servizi. Ha contatti diretti con la parte modellistica, con il reparto produzione e il responsabile delle vendite.FASHION DESIGNER – È un progettista industriale. Dopo aver effettuato la propria ricerca nel flusso delle tendenze, con le materie prime, gli accessori ed altro, progetta singoli capi concettuali o un insieme di capi coordinati (collezione). Normalmente svolge il proprio lavoro da ‘esterno’ come freelance. È a diretto contatto con la proprietà e l’ufficio marketing prima, poi con il reparto modellistico e di prototipia. Trova collocazione presso studi tecnici di progettazione, di marketing e, nelle grandi aziende, come anello di congiunzione tra una ‘firma importante’ e la realtà produttiva interna rivestendo il ruolo di PM (project manager).

Il famoso fotografo Bunny Yeager era una calamita per bellissime modelle negli anni '60; le ha adornate con bellissimi bikini e le ha fotografate con cura in luoghi esotici e inaspettati, in pose giocose che sono contemporaneamente dolci e sexy. Ecco un meraviglioso, sguardo che ricorda alla bellezza femminile, stile 1960, da uno dei personaggi chiave che hanno definito quel periodo. Sono rappresentati più di 150 modelli di costumi da bagno.

Questo manuale pratico, ricco di illustrazioni, spiega nel dettaglio come realizzare le modifiche richieste più di frequente nelle sartorie. Grazie alle tecniche attualmente più usate, oltre alle riparazioni classiche sarà possibile dare un tocco nuovo a capi ormai passati di moda, direttamente a casa e quasi a costo zero. In questo libro, sarte e sarti professionisti e non, apprendisti e studenti di moda, troveranno una selezione adatta al proprio livello, ma anche un metodo e soluzioni comprovate.

Casual clothing, swimwear in particular, is strongly associated with the California lifestyle, and the design and manufacture of casual clothing has long been the foundation of California's garment industry. This book explores that industry as it developed in California from the 1930s through the 1970s, with emphasis on clothing and textile designs suffused with the sunshine spirit. Included are fashions from major swimwear companies such as Catalina, Cole, and Rose Marie Reid; sportswear from leaders like Koret and Alice of California; and a wonderful chapter paying tribute to that most western of fabrics, blue denim. More than 330 photographs and advertisements illustrate the colorful, cheerful, and charming nature of vintage casual clothing. Collectors, designers, and fashion historians will appreciate the profiles of California artisans and their influence on fabric technology. Includes price guide and a helpful glossary of fashion and fabric terminology.

Una guida per creare abiti semplici con dettagli per farne capi unici. All'interno anche suggerimenti per abbinare colori e tessuti.