Fashion Design
Fashion Design Drawing Course
amazon.comVery good and affordable - A perfect place to start
A superb reference book and an ideal instructional textbook for classroom use, this beautifully illustrated guide is organized into units that reflect required courses at leading design colleges. Twenty step-by-step exercises cover methods of finding inspiration, developing observation techniques, and creating fashion drawings in both color and black-and-white media. Separate sections are devoted to getting started and understanding figure proportions, planning and designing garments, and creating and assessing flat specification drawings.
Resources and Reference Books for Fashion Designers
Textile Designs Two Hundred Years of European and American Patterns
Rendering Fashion, Fabric and Prints with Adobe Illustrator
Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator
Figure Drawing for Fashion Design
Fashion Design Drawing Course
Fashion Sketchbook
Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers: Linda Tain
This growing list consists of my personal recommendations on reference books for anyone wanting to enter the field of fashion design. These handy guides exist on my shelves and I refer to them over and over again. I certainly hope you will find them useful as I have.
Figure Drawing for Fashion Design
amazon.comFIGURE DRAWING FOR FASHION DESIGN offers a concise, topic by topic guide to acquiring and perfecting these skills, concentrating on the female form. The coverage provided means that this book is ideal both for those who want to apply themselves professionally to fashion design, and for all enthusiasts of drawing the human body. Fashion plates are the primary means of visualizing ideas and concepts in costume and fashion design.
Creative Fashion Design with Illustrator
amazon.comA beginner's guide to getting started in CAD with Illustrator. This is also a good refresher for professionals.
In today’s fashion world, companies want creative people who can meet the challenge of using computers to deliver original ideas on a tight schedule.
Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers: Linda Tain
amazon.comThis useful text helps fashion designers prepare a portfolio as they begin their design careers. Drawing on over 25 years as a professor, Linda Tain -- illustrator, designer, and former owner of a sportswear company -- shows how to avoid the common pitfalls of inexperience. Over 300 illustrations, archival photos, and sketches by newcomers and top designers, including examples from recent award-winning portfolios, demonstrate diverse approaches to creating a stunning professional portfolio.
Skirting the Issue | Sustainable fashion designs from studio524
studio524.comSkirting the Issue is a unique line of sustainable, earth-friendly fashions designed and hand-crafted by Haze McElhenny of studio524. Each creation is a one of a kind original sewn from vintage tees, hand painted and embellished as you wish by the original artist.
studio524 celebrates the beauty of women - all women - and happily creates flattering designs for all shapes and sizes.
Black and Greys for Beijing
Valentino Sculpture Lace Pump
We all know that black and dark grey are fashionistia favs. My really good friend, who happens to be a walking french fashion girl, swears by those colors.
Now we jump continents to Asia, good old China...
Browns: fashion and designer clothes & clothing, London
Welcome to Browns, a temple of style in the heart of London.
Joan Burstein created Browns with her husband Sidney in 1970. Once a small boutique housed on the ground floor at 27 South Molton Street, Browns rapidly became one of London’s most important fashion destinations and grew quickly, expanding through five connecting townhouses with number 23 being exclusively for men.
Penelope Cruz Calls on Mick Jagger's Girlfriend for Wedding Dress
Actress Penelope cruz has entrusted Mick jagger's designer's girlfriend L 'WREN Scott to create her wedding dress, according to the report. Spain has born the fashion to Utah - queen, who created the unique design, nicole kidman and Madonna, design a fairytale dress to her. A source told InTouch magazine, "Penelope is L 'Wren cooperates closely.I want to learn to draw like a fashion designer!
amazon.comWhen I was much, much younger, I dreamed of someday being a fashion designer. But my parents pounded it out of my head, insisting you can't make a living that way. Now, with the lovely "Project Runway" series and my beloved Sugar sites, I'm getting the design bug again.
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