CONFEZIONE, MODELLISTICA, LINGERIE, BEACHWEAR, TSHIRT, MAGLIERIA

Divided into eight clear chapters, the book starts with an in-depth study on measuring and body shaping, before examining fabric technology and sartorial terminology. It describes a wide range of skirts and trousers, both for women and men, from the basic to the highly elaborate.

Stylish Dress Book: Clothing for Everyday Wear features 26 dresses, tops, jackets and trousers that you can make yourself. Whether you're looking for something casual or a little more elegant, you'll want to wear these beautiful clothes all the time. Simple step-by-step instructions and diagrams, along with four full-size patterns, guide you through the process of creating each garment. The result is a collection of simple yet sophisticated outfits that will give your wardrobe a stylish boost.

Se si desidera cucire i propri vestiti, ma si è scoraggiati dall'idea di tagliare parti del modello coperti con linee tratteggiate e simboli, questo è il libro per voi. Usando il metodo innovativo di Rosie Martin, si inizia con nient'altro che un rettangolo, cerchio o triangolo di tessuto e alcune misure del corpo di base. Quindi, seguire le dettagliate fotografie passo-passo e diagrammi per completare il vostro capo. Avrete bisogno di una macchina da cucire, ma nessuna attrezzatura speciale o tessuti costosi. Con abbondanza di varianti suggerita per ogni capo, c'è un sacco di spazio anche per i propri tocchi creativi.

Il libro esplora come progettare progetti e sfruttare la tecnologia laser per riciclare i tessuti, replicando le finiture tradizionali e sviluppandone di nuove. Ogni progetto è creato in Adobe Illustrator e include istruzioni passo passo per la creazione del disegno per il laser cutter, seguite dalle istruzioni per il taglio e il cucito. Il materiale extra disponibile per il download dal sito Web di Laurence King include sagome e modelli per i design. Illustrato con fotografie appositamente commissionate, Laser Cutting for Fashion and Textiles offre una visione unica per designer di moda, tessuti e accessori su come utilizzare questa ultima tecnologia e fornisce le competenze per sviluppare i propri progetti originali.

Drape Drape 3 is the follow-up to the cult Japanese draping books Drape Drape and Drape Drape 2, and the latest in the new series from Bunka Fashion College.It includes 15 stylish contemporary designs for dresses, skirts, tunics, and blouses, with easy-to-follow instructions and diagrams that skilfully guide the reader to create draped garments step by step.With two full-scale patterns at the back, this book provides a variety of new design ideas and practical construction tips for readers looking to continue exploring draping techniques.

…un’opera innovativa e originale, di grande chiarezza e facilità di consultazione, utile agli studenti degli istituti professionali del settore tessile/abbigliamento, ma anche agli operatori della Moda e a chiunque debba cimentarsi nell’uso appropriato della terminologia o trovi qualche difficoltà nella comprensione di parole poco comuni del campo dell’abbigliamento, della confezione e della moda. Nell’insieme questo dizionario riporta termini che si articolano nei vari settori tecnologici, storici, stilistici, sartoriali e industriali del tessile/abbigliamento, arricchito da molte e interessanti figure a colori, fra dipinti, fotografie e illustrazioni scelte in modo appropriato così da integrare il testo scritto e spiegarlo attraverso l’immediatezza visiva. Gli scatti, spesso inediti, del bravo Gianni Pucci, danno un tocco di originalità e raffinatezza all’opera. Oltre 1000 termini del settore tessile, altrettanti per l’abbigliamento e, in più, 600 di abiti e accessori antichi e tradizionali per un totale di oltre 4000 voci danno il senso della completezza dell’opera.

Following the success of Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks, this second volume shines a light on the work of a new line-up of major names in the fashion industry. Photographs, sketches, moodboards, lineups, muslins, swatches, and more all feed the creative processes that forge fashion designs, and here they are brought together to reveal how the final collections are conceived and developed. Juxtaposing the original research material and drawings with the garments shown on the catwalk and in lookbooks provides fresh insight into the working methods of leading international designers and the role of different media in creating their collections. Students and designers will find this a fascinating and invaluable resource as they develop their own work. Rick Owens, Clements Ribeiro, and Marios Schwab are just some of the prominent designers featured. Interviews in which they discuss the importance of their research run alongside their respective sketchbooks, providing an inspirational overview of cutting-edge approaches to fashion.

In the Loop: Knitting Now explores the progression of knitting, a craft which has come a long way from its fuzzy image of thick socks, long shawls and embarrassing motifs on Christmas jumpers. Now there are knitting groups that meet in quirky venues throughout the country, as well as hundreds of clubs and contemporary artists intent on reclaiming the craft. In the Loop maps knitting's journey from retro hobby to mainstream, contemporary trend. The book includes essays from numerous academics, artists and designers analysing contemporary knitting practice, illustrated throughout with a variety of exciting images - including artists who use knitting in their work, knitting's progression through the past few decades and other developments within the craft. Providing the reader with a fresh look at the subject, In the Loop is an essential book for anyone with an interest in contemporary knitting.

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.