Developing a Fashion Collection

Author: Elinor Renfrew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350132586
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
How do fashion designers conceive of, develop and ultimately launch commercially and creatively successful collections? Developing a Fashion Collection walks you through the process, exploring research techniques, sources of inspiration, forecasting trends and designing for different markets. From couture to high street, knitwear to accessories and covering the implications of online shopping – there's advice on every aspect of creating your collection through 27 insightful interviews with international practitioners. Interviewees include John Mooney, Brand Creative Director at ASOS and Jane Palmer Williams, Head of Executive Development at LVMH. This 3rd edition also covers silhouette, fittings and final samples, sustainable practice, developing high street collections, fabric selection and finding inspiration through vintage designs.

Creating a Successful Fashion Collection

Author: Steven Faerm
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN: 9780764147326
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Teaches how to develop and present a fashion portfolio and clothing line, including tips for standing out from the typical design crowd.

How to Create Your Final Collection

Author: Mark Atkinson
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
ISBN: 1780673787
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Designing a final degree collection is a fashion student’s first chance to approach the reality of the industry. This handbook provides a step-by-step guide to creating this collection, with each chapter exploring a different stage of the project: from understanding the brief and identifying the market to research, development and sampling, through to garment design, range planning, and styling and presentation. Richly illustrated with 350 colour photographs, the book builds on the skills learnt by students during their degree course and throughout the creation of their capsule collection. The accompanying case studies, featuring inspirational work by fashion students from 18 top fashion schools around the world, illustrate every stage of the process and showcase new talent. The book will be accompanied by a CD containing 15 additional student case studies.

Basics Fashion Design 04: Developing a Collection

Author: Elinor Renfrew
Publisher: AVA Publishing
ISBN: 2940373957
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
Teaching the process of developing a fashion collection from initial design through development of product to the product's exhibition and sale, this guide is an essential resource for hopeful designers.

Developing a Fashion Collection

Author: Elinor Renfrew
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350132594
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 193

Design of Clothing Manufacturing Processes

Author: Jelka Geršak
Publisher: Woodhead Publishing
ISBN: 0081027729
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 392

Book Description
This second edition of Design of Clothing Manufacturing Processes comprehensively addresses the design and planning of clothing manufacturing processes, beginning with the classification of clothing and discussion of its market, clothing sizing systems, and the key issues involved in developing a fashion collection. Special emphasis is placed on production planning and control, with detailed coverage of the processes of design, pattern making and cutting, joining techniques, work analysis, clothing manufacturing planning, and the behaviour, performance, and quality of materials critical to the development, planning, and control of manufacturing processes and the sale of garments. With its descriptions of the rapid, integrated, and flexible manufacturing systems of today, driven by demand information, this book explains how new supply chain models and manufacturing processes can lead to a much quicker route from design to distribution. This new edition is updated with important new research and topics, including digital fashion incorporating scientific aspects of fabric modelling, simulation and digital fitting, and the performance of seams as an important criterion for the quality and appearance of clothing. - Considers in detail the design of clothing classification and sizing systems - Comprehensively presents the requirements of digital fashion, the terminology used for virtual garment, fabric modelling for virtual clothing simulation, and digital fitting - Covers the production planning in all aspects of clothing production from design and pattern making to manufacture - Provides a thorough review and description of quality requirements for clothing materials - Looks in detail at the performance of stitched seams, from the theoretical basis for determining seam strength and the parameters that affect seam strength, to the phenomenon of seam pucker

Advances in Fashion and Design Research

Author: Ana Cristina Broega
Publisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031167732
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 801

Book Description
This book offers a multidisciplinary perspective on research and developments at the interface between industrial design, textile engineering and fashion. It covers advances in fashion and product design, and in textile production alike, reporting on smart and sustainable industrial procedures and 3D printing, issues in marketing and communication, and topics concerning social responsibility, sustainability, emotions, creativity and education. It highlights research that is expected to foster the development of design and fashion on a global and interdisciplinary scale. Gathering the proceedings of the 5th International Fashion and Design Congress, CIMODE 2022, held on July 4-7, 2022, in Guimarães, Portugal, this book offers extensive information and a source of inspiration to both researchers and professionals in the field of fashion, design, engineering, communication as well as education.

Field Guide: How to be a Fashion Designer

Author: Marcarena San Martin
Publisher: Rockport Publishers
ISBN: 161060170X
Category : Design
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
This book is the first basic guide for aspiring fashion designers. It fully explains the fundamental concepts surrounding the business of fashion design from both a creative and marketing perspective. Designed as a flow chart, the book walks the reader through the steps necessary when developing a collection and highlights the key points in the process, from the genesis of an idea through to the production of a final design. A complete reference, this book also includes a listing of the major fashion schools around the world, and illustrates the paths taken by some of the most distinguished designers that got them where they are today.

ENVISION: The Young Accessory Designer's Guide to Collection Development

Author: Meca McKinney
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1257434888
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 61

Book Description
If you believe your perspective on how people should accessorize is unique and worthy of attention from consumers, this book will help you take your concepts from vague ideas to fully realized collection. It will guide you through the process, seamlessly. By the end of the book, you will have designed a signature body of work: a professional presentation of your own collection of accessories!

Collection Development Policies

Author: Daniel C. Mack
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780789014719
Category : Academic libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 192

Book Description
Get the tools you need to build a collection development policy that will help your library run efficiently—today and in the future! Considering the amount and variety of topics being published, effectively organizing and guiding a library in today's accelerated world is no easy task. Collection Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collections is the contemporary librarians guide to building or revising a first-rate collection development policy. In this up-to-date book, experts in the field take you step-by-step through the publishing process from writing an initial draft to applying the official copy. Find out what did and did not work in their own practices and get the tools you'll need to tackle any obstacles you may encounter. Collection Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collection covers a variety of topics—including pricing policies and remote storage facilities—without leaving out the traditional concerns of space and funding. This valuable book also addresses the needs of specialized collections with information on acquisition policies for contemporary subjects collections and building subject specific policy statements. Experienced professionals examine the stability of the electronic resources market and explain how the impact of technical services is redefining the access, collection, and cataloging of libraries. Collection Development Policies also provides examples of collection policies currently in use. Read about: the subject specific policy statements of Schreyer Business Library and the women's studies collection at Pennsylvania State University Berkeley's Collection Development Policy (CDPS) and the factors hindering its revision the creation and revision of St. John's University's collection development policy Simmons College's Graduate School of Library and Information Science's term project and syllabus—and how it can be applied to functioning libraries the Association of Research Libraries' Web pages—and how they have been influenced by the electronic management revolution Collection Development Policies: New Directions for Changing Collection is a valuable resource for anyone selecting and acquiring library materials, maintaining a library collection, or building a collection development policy. The information in this book will help you organize your library collection in a manner that will be beneficial not only to you, but to your clients as well.