Fashion Design - Softcover

Fashion design offers a through grounding in the principles of fashion design. It describes the qualities and skills needed to become a fashion designer, examines the varied career opportunities available and gives a balanced inside view of the fashion business today. Subjects covered include how to interpret a project; build a collection; choose fabric; master fit and cutting methods; and build a portfolio presentation. This revised edition discusses the technological developments that are changing the fashion industry, and includes expanded chapters on drawing and making techniques, and careers in fashion. With updated photographs and illustrations, and extensive resource lists and glossaries, the book provides new designers with af valuable road map to the profession.

Sue Jenkyn Jones is a senior lecturer in Fashion Design at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design, London.