Offers information on fashion design and sketching along with several sketching projects, including contemporary fashion trends, fashions from history, and custom designs.

Whether their dream is to become the next hot runway designer, develop their own clothing line, or simply combine their artistic skills with a love for fashion, the tips, tools, and step-by-step projects in Fashion Design Workshop Drawing Book & Kit provide budding designers with everything they need to draw an assortment of fashions. Artists will learn to render a variety of fashionable contemporary styles, including a classic red dress, a bohemian outfit, sporty athletic wear, and casual jeans paired with a t-shirt. Also included is plenty of inspiration from past decades and iconic styles, including a Renaissance-era dress, ’40s swing, ’50s rock ‘n’ roll, and others. The project book opens with an overview of the included tools and materials, as well as an introduction to basic fashion design drawing techniques, such as figure proportions, rendering textures, drawing various poses, and tips for rendering details. Aspiring fashion designers and illustrators will find everything they need to create the stylish projects in the book using the materials provided, including a drawing pencil, eraser, 6-double-sided colored pencils, 8 fine-line markers, loose-leaf drawing paper, and pre-printed fashion pose templates corresponding to the projects inside, which artists can photocopy for continued use and endless creative designs.

Fashion Design Workshop: Remix offers a contemporary approach to fashion design illustration for aspiring artists and designers. Encouraging freedom of expression, empowerment, strength, diversity, and a modern take on individual style, Remix focuses on the diverse array of fashion for our changing times, including designing fashions for all body types and genders. From finding design inspiration and mastering a personal illustrative style to designing entire wardrobes and combining pieces to create dozens of fresh looks, Fashion Design Workshop: Remix includes a variety of traditional and whimsical styles and ideas for maximum creativity, as well as living up to one’s truest potential. Whether it's creating Instagram-worthy Red Carpet gowns, carefree Boho Music Festival ensembles, or fashions inspired by iconic men and women, Remix has a little something for every enthusiastic fashion designer. Also included are instructions and ideas for creating accessories, jewelry, and hair designs to complement each fashion genre. A fashion icon section featuring such notables as Coco Chanel, Frida Kahlo, Lady Gaga, Beyonce, Michelle Obama, Adele, Chrissy Metz, and others gives an overview of how fashion moves and evolves, while providing tips and techniques for staying on top of trends and embracing (and rocking!) a uniquely personal style. Step-by-step projects demonstrate how easy it is to develop eye-catching fashions quickly and easily, while helpful art tips are included throughout. Includes fashion templates that can be copied and used again and again.

Fashion Design for Living explores the positive contribution that the contemporary fashion designer can make within society. The book seeks to reveal new ways of designing and making fashion garments and products that not only enhance and enrich our lives, but also are mindful of social and sustainable issues. This book sets out to question and challenge the dominant, conventional process of fashion design that as a practice has been under-researched. While the fashion designer in industry is primarily concerned with the creation of the new seasonal collection, designed, produced and measured by economically driven factors, society increasingly expects the designer to make a positive contribution to our social, environmental and cultural life. Consequently an emergent set of designers and research-based practitioners are beginning to explore new ways to think about fashion designing. The contributors within this book argue that fashion designing should move beyond developing garments that are just aesthetically pleasing or inexpensive, but also begin to consider and respond to the wearer's experiences, wellbeing, problems, desires and situations, and their engagement with and use of a garment. Fashion Design for Living champions new approaches to fashion practice by uncovering a rich and diverse set of views and reflective experiences which explore the changing role of the fashion designer and inspire fresh, innovative and creative responses to fashion and the world we live in.

New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.

Fashion education is changing. Not only is it preparing students for induction into the ethos and business practices of a wide variety of design, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, retailing, and promotional activities, it is also offering understanding and empowerment for meeting the challenges of sustainability, decolonisation, and new business models. This book presents 20 essays by cosmopolitan thinkers, activists, and designers to explore new challenges and potentials for fashion education. The chapters comprise case studies, manifestos, and detailed analyses of the realpolitik of collaborating across continents and more sustained overviews of the imminent crises and prospective challenges that face practitioners. Recurring themes include the geopolitics of globalisation, the imbalances between North and South, decolonisation, intersectionality, exploitation, cultural appropriation, and social justice. The thought-provoking contributions show that, although we confront a common challenge in shaping the future of education, we have varied approaches and opportunities to address a transforming industry. This edited collection addresses the issues of greatest concern to students, designers, lecturers and researchers in fashion and allied fields of creative design and as such will find a varied audience.

While most tailoring books begin with the selection of ready-made patterns and conclude with the assembly of the various pieces, Tailored Fashion Design begins a few steps earlier-in the design process. Students will learn to consider tailoring as a design element, rather than just a method of garment assembly. The book guides readers from inspiration through pattern manipulation and garment construction of their own tailored jacket designs for both men and women. Students will gain a greater appreciation of tailoring as a valuable skill that will enable them to not only display their ability to put together garments, but also showcase their creativity as designers.