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Fashion Design, Referenced is a comprehensive visual guide to the central concepts, key terminology, and most significant practices in the field of fashion design.
Creative ideas are elevated by experience and expertise. This book sets forth a challenge to fashion designers—continue to expand your horizons, exercise your skills and experiment with strategies. The idea behind collecting and cataloging the essential principles of fashion design, is to build a framework for artful examination that the designer can revisit regularly for inspiration and instruction. Fashion Design Essentials is divided into five easy to reference categories: I. THOUGHT - This section presents intellectual exercises that are intended to serve as catalysts for channeling creativity. II. INVENTORY - This section helps define and re-think the uses of tools and raw materials for fashion design. III. TECHNIQUE - This section identifies a varied assortment of fundamental techniques for executing a fashion designer’s idea. IV. ARTISTRY - This section is designed to conjure and cultivate the artistic instincts of a fashion designer. V. NAVIGATION - This section provides the fashion designer diverse strategies for negotiating a path to success.
Guides students and professionals through the fashion design process, from creating a garment to marketing it, in an updated edition that includes new information on digital technology, portfolio building, and other industry topics.
A career guide for fashion designers and professionals, covering everything you need to know about building a successful business after graduating. How do you navigate the confusing and competitive fashion world after the relative comfort of fashion school? How do you learn to adapt to an industry that constantly evolves and throws new challenges your way? And above all, how do you play to your strengths as a designer, and build a successful career in business. What They Didn't Teach You in Fashion School is your survival guide to the fashion industry. Providing expert advice, and lots of inspiration, Jay Calderin shows you how to make a brilliant career in the exhilarating world of fashion.
An indispensable primer for students and first-stop reference for professionals, Form, Fit, and Fashion guides the fashion designer through the entire design process, from conceiving a garment to marketing it. This handbook collects the information and ideas essential to planning and executing fashion projects of every scale and distills them in an easy-to-use format that is compact enough to slip into a tote. Linking six central phases in the cycle of fashion—research, editing, design, construction, connection, and evolution—Form, Fit, and Fashion will help designers to develop effective strategies for building a cohesive collection and communicating their vision.
"Too many young adults are not using these important years wisely and are not investing in their future personal growth. With the help of their parents and educators, the ultimate goal for the young adult years is to prepare them for a secure, stable and promising career after completing college. It details the A-Z on the nine key Best Practices that young adults need to focus on in order to land an exceptional job offer well before their college graduation. The promise of a challenging and exciting job, regardless of the current path taken by the young adult, is all within reach. The sooner he or she follows and implements my Blueprint for Success, the sooner a brighter, promising future becomes a reality"--Publisher's description.
DIVExamine the basic elements and principles of fashion design in this comprehensive reference that defines each of the basic elements. This must-have book enhances visual literacy, and inspires with dynamic and memorable visual references./div
Latin Blackness in Parisian Visual Culture, 1852-1932 examines an understudied visual language used to portray Latin Americans in mid-19th to early 20th-century Parisian popular visual media. The term 'Latinize' is introduced to connect France's early 19th-century endeavors to create “Latin America,” an expansion of the French empire into the Latin-language based Spanish and Portuguese Americas, to its perception of this population. Latin-American elites traveler to Paris in the 1840s from their newly independent nations were denigrated in representations rather than depicted as equals in a developing global economy. Darkened skin, etched onto images of Latin Americans of European descen...
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This book takes an in-depth look at the integration of fashion and philosophy. It challenges the deeply rooted prejudice or misconception that fashion is a field limited to body-oriented and appearance-related themes and practices. It also reveals that fashion is intermeshed with distinctively modern issues that belong to the realm of the mind as well as the body. In doing so, it refashions philosophy and philosophizes fashion, which ultimately amount to the same thing. The book argues that while the philosophization of fashion can give a clearer understanding of some esoteric areas of philosophy and fashion’s close connection to modern societies and politics, it also shows that philosophy...