Fashion Design Program: Ideas, Practice, and Methods: A Sensible Guide for Aspiring Fashion Designers
January 6th, 2013 | 
Author: A widely-recognized fashion design instructor presents a series of stage-by-step tutorials and workouts, and provides students comprehensive recommendations on how to prepare for a profitable profession in the glamorous fashion style market. The book opens with an overview of the principles of fashion design, a survey of the industry’s history and its key designers, and a description of today’s markets and consumers. The tutorials that comply with teach in designing sportswear, plain garments for wear to business careers, denim/activewear, cocktail and evening place on, children’s clothing, men’s garments, and accessories. The author also advises on making and presenting a fashion portfolio, and on “selling” oneself in a job interview. His numerous discussions with some of the industry’s major specialists give students beneficial insights on how to develop and develop one’s individualized original collection. Fashion Design Course is a fine introduction for students, dressmakers, and all other people aspiring to career
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Packed with information and illustrations,
This is a thorough book covering all aspects of fashion design. It covers the different markets within the fashion industry from designer to budget, describes the design process, gives information about a variety of textiles along with fabric photos, describes the difference between woven and knit fabrics and clothing, covers technical design and flat sketching along with examples of flats, provides over a dozen assignments/exercises that enhance creativity and aid the development of a collection, gives resume writing tips and portfolio creation suggestions along with actual portfolio examples, and it ends with interview transcripts of industry professionals. There are inspiring fashion illustration and collections throughout the book to complement the text.
This would be a great resource for those entering fashion schools to get an overview of what’s ahead and after graduation for a solid review of the lessons learned in college and to prepare for the career ahead.
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|best book ever!,
if you go to parsons as a fashion major, you MUST BUY THIS BOOK!!
the author is the director of parsons bfa, and all the assignments that you will have in parsons are talked about in this book.
IT IS VERY HELPFUL !!
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|Reads like a magazine,
If you read fashion magazines then you are going to enjoy this book tremendously. FULL COLOR, Straight to the point concise yet powerful information. It is a book that you gives you inspiration and shows you how to think and plan like a fashion designer. It gives you a brief timeline of important designers from 1910 to present included on the list is Proenza Schouler (Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCoullough who went to Parsons)
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