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Fashion Design

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Communicating Fashion Brands by Emily Huggard; Jon Cope This book demonstrates how fashion brands communicate, why the practice is significant within wider society and how it can be perceived as culturally meaningful. Enabling readers to connect the tools and techniques of communication with their theoretical underpinnings and historical antecedents, the book shows how these methods can be applied in practice. The authors utilise social, consumer and cultural theory, and frameworks rooted in psychology, sociology and economics, as mechanisms to analyse and deconstruct current communication strategies used by fashion brands. The book presents insights and strategies for communicating authentic values, conveying a clearly defined aesthetic and visual language and generating shareable content that resonates with audiences. With insights into strategies used by brands including Burberry, Gucci, Dior, COS, Rapha, Warby Parker and Maryam Nassir Zadeh, each chapter outlines ways of maintaining relevant and  consistent brand narratives in the 21st century. From how to sustain a dialogue with a brand's community, to the use of brand collaboration, co-creative storytelling and fashion spaces, the book aims to develop reflective communication practitioners who have a deep understanding of the cultural landscape, brand strategy and industry innovation. Written for scholars and practitioners, this book is a valuable blend of theory and practice across the fields of fashion, communication and branding.
ISBN: 9780429875595
Publication Date: 2020-02-19
Ladies Couture Tailoring by Michelle Pye In this practical guide, Michelle Pye demystifies the process of making a handmade jacket. As an experienced bespoke tailor and teacher, she explains each step of the process from making a toile for fitting, cutting out, inserting the pockets, the application of the sleeves and collar, through to hand finishing and pressing the jacket.
Publication Date: 2021
A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion by Alison Gwilt Alison Gwilt introduces the key issues associated with the production, use and disposal of fashion clothing and gives step-by-step guidance on how to identify and evaluate the potential impacts of a garment during the design process.
Publication Date: 2020
The Great Fashion Designers by Brenda Polan; Roger Tredre A guide to the lives and collections of 55 iconic fashion designers which draws on the latest academic research and the best of fashion journalism, including the authors' own interviews with designers.
Publication Date: 2020
Fashion Design Workshop: Remix by Stephanie Corfee Encouraging freedom of expression, empowerment, strength, diversity, and a more modern approach to individual style, Fashion Design Workshop: Remix introduces fashion design illustration for today’s aspiring artists and designers.
ISBN: 9781633228290
Publication Date: 2020
Fashion Marketing and Communication by Olga Mitterfellner Some of the usual obstacles to modern teachings of marketing are ethnocentricity, the limitation of creative thought by conformity to existing theories, lack of questioning of ethics, and a disconnection from historic events or sociological discourse. This book, in contrast, draws together interdisciplinary approaches from marketing, branding, promotion and critical media studies as tools for understanding the way in which fashion works today, and re-evaluates what makes certain fashion marketing tactics fashionable. Offering a combination of theory and practice, Fashion Marketing and Communication is full of international case studies, practice-based examples and interviews with scholars and practitioners in the fashion and communications industry. Covering subjects including the history of consumerism, fashion marketing, the creative direction of the fashion brand and the use of bloggers and celebrities as marketing tools, this book delineates the opportunities and challenges facing the future of fashion media in the twenty-first century. Examining the last 100 years of marketing and communications, current theory and practice, as well as questions on the ethics of the fashion industry, this broad-ranging and critical text is perfect for undergraduate and postgraduate students of fashion marketing, branding and communication.
ISBN: 9780429837173
Publication Date: 2019-11-14
Fashion Drawing by John Hopkins With more than 150 colour examples, John Hopkins takes you through the different styles, techniques and approaches to drawing in the fashion industry.
Publication Date: 2018
Designing Clothes with the Flat Pattern Method by Sara Alm The book teaches sewers a new technique for making garments using basic pattern blocks called slopers. Sewers learn to design shapes, style lines, and fashion details--creating patterns for customized clothing.
Publication Date: 2017
Metric Pattern Cutting for Women's Wear by Winifred Aldrich Metric Pattern Cutting for Women's Wear provides a straightforward introduction to the principles of form pattern cutting for garments to fit the body shape, and flat pattern cutting for casual garments and jersey wear.
Publication Date: 2015
Sewing for Fashion Designers by Anette Fischer This comprehensive guide explores the fundamental sewing methods fashion designers need and teaches professional garment construction. The best technical approaches to use for patternmaking and construction are discussed for each fabric. Catwalk images demonstrate how these kinds of techniques are employed by designers.
Publication Date: 2015