Fashion Design, Referenced
A Visual Guide to the History, Language, and Practice of Fashion
Published on 1. February 2013
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-1-59253-677-1 (ISBN)
Description
Fashion Design, Referenced is a comprehensive guide through the art and industry of fashion design, richly illustrated with over 1,000 photographs and drawings. Within the framework of four central categories, Fashion Design, Referenced examines the many interwoven elements that form the tapestry of fashion.Fundamentals provides an overview of the essential structure of the fashion profession (its organization, specializations, and centers) and looks at shifts in style over time and in ever-faster cycles going forward.Principles introduces the steps in creating a collection, from design to production, and explores directions suggested by sustainability and technology.Dissemination charts the many avenues by which fashion reaches its audience, whether on the catwalk or in the store, in print or online, in the museum or on the street.Practice gathers and appraises the work of the most influential and innovative fashion designers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.From its first questionWhat is fashion design?to its lastWhat does the future hold?Fashion Design, Referenced chronicles the scope of ideas, inspirations, and expressions that define fashion culture.Visit the Fashion Design, Referenced Facebook page and become a fan at http://www.facebook.com/FashionDesignReferenced!
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 254 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-59253-677-1 (9781592536771)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
Additional editions
Alicia Kennedy | Emily Banis Stoehrer | Jay Calderin
Fashion Design, Referenced
A Visual Guide to the History, Language, and Practice of Fashion
E-Book
02/2013
Rockport Publishers
€48.99
Available for download
Persons
Alicia Kennedy is a design editor and writer and teaches twentieth-century fashion history at Lasell College. She was cofounder and coeditor of the award-winning Assemblage: A Critical Journal of Architecture and Design Culture.Emily Banis Stoehrer is a fashion educator and heads the Fashion Program at Fisher College in Boston. She was formerly a curatorial research associate in textiles and fashion at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.Jay Calderin is director of creative marketing at the School of Fashion Design in Boston. He founded Boston Fashion Week and is creative director of Chengdu Fashion Week in China. He is the author of Form, Fit, and Fashion and Fashion Design Essentials.www.facebook.com/FashionDesignReferencedYenna Chan has taught design and architectural history in Boston, where she worked for the architectural journal Assemblage and practiced residential architecture at the firm of Robert Luchetti Associates. She earned a bachelor's degree from Cornell University School of Architecture and a master's degree in Architectural Theory from Harvard Design School. Yenna lives in New York, NY.Jay Calderin teaches a wide variety of fashion and professional development courses at the School of Fashion Design in Boston, MA, where he is also the Director of Creative Marketing. He founded and serves as Executive Director of Boston Fashion Week. Calderins designs have appeared in the pages of Vogue and Elle magazines.