Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #85893 in Books
• Published on: 2006-05-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 205 pages

Synopsis
While it may at first seem obvious that textiles have a central role in fashion design, often the use of fabric is not discussed in its own right, but is seen merely as a material with which a designer can execute their vision. "Fashioning Fabrics" seeks to redress this (as it were). This book investigates the variety of ways in which textiles are used by fashion designers, focusing on those for whom textiles are a central part of their practice. From Issey Miyake's sculptural pleats to Jessica Ogden's salvaged and reworked vintage fabrics, "Fashioning Fabrics" explores the experimental, the beautiful and the extravagant in textile and fashion design. Written by Sandy Black, author of "Knitwear in Fashion", and Elyssa Da Cruz, author of "WILD: Fashion Untamed", the book centres around profiles of iconic designers as well as emerging talent concentrating on each designers' work in relation to the areas of surface, print, knit and form.

"Fashioning Fabrics" traces a history of the innovations and passion for textiles that runs through many designers' work - from colourful patterns to the use of cutting edge technology, forming an essential study for those interested in fashion, textiles and design.

Customer Reviews

Fantastic Book
This is one of my all time favourite books. It is worth the money for the pictures alone but the information is really useful. It is great for a fashion and textiles designer or student. I love to just flick through the pages and look at all the beautiful images - it makes me want to get creative and is very inspirational! I would absolutely recommend buying this book to anyone interested in fashion and/or textiles! A+++++

Thinker
`Fashioning Fabrics' features textile artists working closely with fashion designers to create fabrics that travel into startling realms of techno-terror, or wearable fantasy.

Textile designer Jorgen Lehl says, "Anything, anywhere can be a source of inspiration, but it does not come to fruition without the strong wish for new experience." This is the book's pivotal theme, with its superb fashion photography showing cutting-edge experimental textiles at their best.

Four sections - embellished, sculpted, imprinted, constructed - feature 43 designers whose work incorporates amazing, beautiful and sometimes outrageous materials, and the text is packed with a rich amalgam of knowledge, both ephemeral and apocalyptic.