CONFEZIONE, MODELLISTICA, LINGERIE, BEACHWEAR, TSHIRT, MAGLIERIA

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 It represents work not only from the world’s most influential fashion and style magazines, but also includes unpublished work either specially commissioned for Fashion Illustration Next or drawn from the artists’ own collections.Complete with a self-portrait by each artist to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.

Fashion Patternmaking Technique for Kids clothes is the result of 15 years reprints and corrections based in an everyday teaching praxis, which lead to careful studies and ongoing updates taking into account changing needs. As in the other volumes of the series, the author has written a method, simple but at the same time detailed, precise and easy to understand.

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.

Quando uno stilista crea una collezione, il suo focus è sul profilo personale dell'individuo che indosserà i loro capi. Questo libro esplora la mente creativa dei migliori stilisti e pone la domanda: chi sarebbe il loro ragazzo e cosa indosserebb? In 1 Brief, 50 designer, 50 soluzioni in Fashion Design, cinquanta designer creano la propria definizione stilistica di ciò che è "esso" nella moda. Ci guidano attraverso il loro processo creativo e condividono con noi i risultati finali.

Utilizzata sin da tempi molto antichi, questa tecnica permette di creare abiti direttamente sul manichino con l'aiuto di pochi semplici strumenti e di tanta fantasia. Capitolo dopo capitolo il lettore sarà guidato nella realizzazione di un capo, dal semplice tubino ai più complicati abiti con drappeggi. Colli e pieghe, nodi e volumi sono solo alcuni degli esercizi presenti nel volume. Le numerose fotografie presenti in tutto il libro immortalano ogni singolo passaggio da compiere, così da rendere ancora più semplice la comprensione di questa tecnica. Il Moulage permette al designer o all'appassionato di moda di muovere il tessuto a suo piacimento: non ci sono regole fisse, è solo necessario dare sfogo alla propria creatività.

Una guida passo, passo, completa alle tecniche essenziali, dal taglio, alla sagomatura, passando dalle giunzioni e la finitura. Sono spiegate ed illustrate anche tecniche speciali, quali l'impiallacciatura, l'intaglio e la tornitura.