Fashion Design

Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by culture and different trends, and has varied over time and place. "A fashion designer creates clothing, including dresses, suits, pants, and skirts, and accessories like shoes and handbags, for consumers. He or she can specialize in clothing, accessory, or jewelry design, or may work in more than one of these areas." ...more

Patternmaking for Fashion Design
Fashion Design Course
The Fundamentals of Fashion Design
The Fashion Designer Survival Guide: Start and Run Your Own Fashion Business
The Art of Manipulating Fabric
The Fashion Designer's Textile Directory
Fashion Illustration: Inspiration and Technique
Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
The Fashion Book
Pattern Magic
Fabric for Fashion: The Complete Guide: Natural and Man-made Fibres
Fabric for Fashion: The Swatch Book
Fabrics A to Z: The Essential Guide to Choosing and Using Fabric for Sewing
Developing a Collection
9 Heads: A Guide to Drawing Fashion

Believe me, I have made many hats. Perhaps I have made more hats than any other one woman in the world. And with each hat is a story. It is the story of the woman who wore the hat, and why she bought it; the people she loved and the people she hated; the places she went and the things that happened to her, perhaps because of the hat. You see, a woman’s hat is close to her heart, though she wears it on her head. It is her way of saying to the world: “See, this is what I am like!~” or – “This is ...more
Lilly Daché, Talking Through My Hats

. . . . I think of the women who have bought my hats. Some have been duchesses and some have been queens. Some have been famous actresses and some have been no better than they should be. Some have been great ladies of society, and some have been shopgirls and stenographers, not famous at all. These last I like to think of best, because a hat to them was worth going without lunches for a month. So many hats. So many women. They would make a picture story of our times.
Lilly Daché, Talking Through My Hats

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