Fashion Design Textbooks

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KathrynMcKelvey, a Northumbrian University Reader, illustrator and designer, has professional experience in drawing and visual communication as well as fashion research and industry forecasting. Janine Munslow runs design label partnership Guerilla Farm with international wholesale and fashion outlets.

Hello readers!

Myself Rajeev, I found this blog quite interesting and informative. This blog helped me a lot to understand essential reading for fashion majors and designers. Keep updating blogs like this in future.

The AAS program provides an essential foundation in computer-aided design, sketching, draping, patternmaking, construction, sewing techniques, and textiles. Once you earn your AAS, you can apply for a BFA in Fashion Design. You are also eligible to apply to the BFA programs in Fabric Styling, Textile/Surface Design, and Toy Design, along with BS programs in Production Management: Fashion and Related Industries, Technical Design, and Textile Development and Marketing.

The PETE Prize is administered by the FIT DTech Lab as a jury-selected merit award competition that recognizes excellence in developing fresh, insightful and creative ideas that demonstrate design-oriented and innovative thinking.

A multidisciplinary fashion designer focused on innovative technical approaches and design thinking, Sperber aims at creating sustainable systems and creative solutions in clothing. She holds her BFA and MFA in Fashion Design from FIT and teaches in the undergraduate Fashion Design program.

This is an excellent fashion design book full of visual examples bringing FASHION DESIGN visual and verbal language together. Excellent for bringing you on board into deeper conversations about fashion design.

Color (and design) theory was one of the most mind-blowing courses I ever took as an undergrad. This book is incredibly thorough and extensive in discussing and clarifyiong all manner of dynamics of design theory and color interaction. Written and thoroughly researched by one of my colleagues at Parsons. Awareness of these principles gives you so many tools to consciously wield in visual expression and design!

This is a great book to jump-start your fashion design book/ croquis book for researching, compiling and developing your fashion design concepts in depth! A personal, loaded, creative space inside a sketchbook is the best portfolio for showing how you think and feel fashion design.

Fashion design is born from where? I never actually used a book to guide this journey, but if you want one, here it is. To me, research is (and should be ) natural and pleasurable. There are no limits on the resources and references that come together for you in the creation of fashion garments or collections.

Honestly, I am obsessed with the fact that we should always sketch with fabric IN OUR HANDS. And in that respect, this book falls short because it only shows pictures of fabric swatches for fashion designers. BUT it is rich in VOCABULARY and fashion language, as well as shows most of the fabrics both flat as well as in USE which can tell you a lot about how they can drape and feel.

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I keep an archive of design details and model poses for sketching, as well as inspiration, on Pinterest. If you enjoy pinterest too, join me over there!

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The other day I realized I have a good sized library of sewing books. Some books I have used only a couple of times, and some books I reach for over and over again. Some books are textbooks from college (I studied clothing construction and family science), and some I have purchased or were gifted since graduating.

This book is all about how to alter flat patterns. You learn about everything from style lines and dart manipulation to creating collars and puffed sleeves. I will warn you that this book does not have any sewing help. It shows you how to create a design with a flat pattern but not how to sew it.

My favorite page in Patternmaking for Fashion Design* is the page with all the math done for circles. It gives you all the measurements (length, radius, etc) for a quarter circle, a half circle, a three-quarter circle, and a full circle. I often use this for skirts and dresses, but with the flared sleeve trend right now this does all the work for making your own bell sleeve!

I would recommend this book, Patternmaking for Fashion Design*, to anyone who wants to create their own pattern, anyone who wants to really create their own styles from a basic pattern sloper, or anyone who does a lot of pattern hacking for their kids.

The new edition of Fashion gives your students an in-depth look at the exciting world of fashion. This colorful text is designed for non-laboratory textile and clothing courses. Hundreds of contemporary images illustrate concepts and enhance learning. Updated information paints for students a current picture of the fashion scene. Fashion can help your students become future employees in fashion-related businesses.

I am not selling my books nor do I have access to the discounted price I originally paid. If you are interested in buying these books, please use Amazon Japan. The books are about $40 each plus shipping. If you email asking where to buy the books or asking to purchase mine, I will not respond.

I am going to do my best not to gush too hard here. But, I am BEYOND excited about these books. Mostly, because they only cost me $100 for the four. They are selling in the states for $44 each. These are definitely text books. But, what I like about them as textbooks is that they, wait for it, ACTUALLY TEACH SEWING. See that below? Those are directions on how to sew a skirt, where to add lining, how to sew lining, how to cut it out, ways to pretreat, suggested fabrics for garments, places for interfacing, etc.

There is a GREAT deal of information on fit and drafting. Ways to alter your sloper (including for bust) and EXTENSIVE instructions on drafting one. There is a four page glossary on the little symbols and markings that are used on the Mrs. Stylebook / Japanese drafting patterns

So, to sum up, if you can find at least the first book, Fundamentals of Garment Design, I think it it well worth the money if you are interested in fit and working with the Japanese patterns. If you are interested in drafting on your own, then I would get the remainder. The last, Coats and Capes, comes out in December. And, if you are thinking of ordering from Amazon.com Japan and saving some money. shipping is almost $50 for the four.

So cool! My experience with Japanese pattern books is that they have really great line drawings in the instructions that make the language issue irrelevant. I can only imagine what it would be like to actually be able to read one!

Those books are very interesting because they show the pattern draft as well as the sewing directions. I have never seen such a book. About the pressing tools I know that a lot of tailors use such tools and if you google you can find directions how to make them yourself just use steam beech wood.

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I am a student on the fashion school TEKO in denmark. Here I am studying Pattern Design, with focus on the Industrie

At the moment I am doing my bachelor exam, and I am writing about the differences between asian and european body shapes, Here I am comparing measurement charts and patterns with each other to be able to find out what I am supposed to adjust according to the 2 different export markets.

In this process, I have been using my danish construction books, both for the european body and the japanese body. I am not really abble to make it look proportional. At school we are using a pattern book from Japan, called Pattern Magic, so I looked at a basic block pattern to see if i could find out hom to make it look better, no succes! I therefore googled Bunka style trouser block, and that brought me here.

I would like to buy all the books, which I definatly will do, but I am not sure if they will reach me in denmark before i have to hand in. I therefore wanted to hear, if i could buy the recepie of the basic trouser block from you, so i will be abble to continue for now?

i agree, the Bunka books are good, especially for pattern drafting. I have purchased them as they were published from sources of Japanese publications. The sewing instructions are basic, but well illustrated.

I am new to drafting and recently bought the 3rd bunka book. It has the bodice sloper instructions at the back. I cannot buy all the books at once, so I am buying one by one. 3rd book seemed to be a wise choice :). So, I am trying to decide which one to buy next. I stumbled upon your blog while looking for the bunka book reviews. Would it be possible for you to let me know a few things about the books? It would be really very helpful for me. What I am looking for is which one has skirt sloper and sleeve sloper? Any suggestion on which book you think would be better to buy next would be very much appreciated.

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