Sourcing and Selecting Textiles for Fashion (Required Reading Range)
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| Rating | : | 4.61 (609 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 2940496102 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
From the author Excuse the five star rating. I just wanted to say this book is a very fresh look at the relationship between textiles and fashion. It doesn't focus on just designing one or the other. The publishers asked me to address the trend of fashion designers designing not only their lines but also the textiles that they are created from. Designers are now more and more capable of having access to custom textile creation or customizing griege goods. Because of ease of supply chains, textile designers are now producing their own end products as well.This book gives a solid background to textiles AND fashion. It reviews the many ways
A perspective of current innovation and sustainability is offered in each area.Colour photographs, illustrations and designer spotlights supplement informative text throughout the book, and the text includes a bonus section of interviews with designers at different levels of their career and marketplace, focusing on how they select and source fabrics and apply them to their designs.. Natural and man-made fibres are discussed along with current woven, knit and non-woven production methods. A variety of industrial and
Erin Cadigan is a fashion design instructor at Pratt Institute in New York, USA, and runs a successful eco-friendly lifestyle company, THREE Erin Cadigan.
Readers, whether fashion students or textile designers, will gain an appreciation for the relationship between textiles and fashion design, and how they influence each other in the process of achieving creative new designs. Lower-level undergraduates and above; general readers.” C. Summing Up: Recommended. “Cadigan (Pratt Institute), a professional with over ten years of experience in the field, presents an accessible exploration of textiles and the process of sourcing and selecting them for use in fashion design. B. Well-organized chapters offer step-by-step support through conceptualizing, sourcing, and designing textiles in a fiscally responsible manner. Cannon, Brand Library and Art Center, CHOICE