The Human Figure: An Anatomy for Artists

 

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The Human Figure includes detailed drawing of the head, neck, trucnk, arm, hand, hip, leg and foot.

The Figure: The Classic Approach to Drawing & Construction

 

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The Figure will show you how to reduce complex figures into a variety of basic shapes that are easy to master, helping you to reach your goal of producing lifelike drawings. The principles stressed here bring clear insights into drawing the human form. You'll find a logical, step-by-step method for mastering the construction and proportions of all figure types.

 

Secrets of the Super Brands: Fashion: Superbrand Chic

 

Description

No one, it seems, is immune to the power of branding. Not even Alex Riley, host of this enlightening three-part series, can mount a meaningful resistance to advertising and endorsement hype, no matter how hard he tries. With help from marketing specialists and brain scientists, Riley sets out to find out why we buy, trust, and even idolize popular brands. Each episode examines a specific sector of the global economy (technology, fashion, or food) as it winds its way through a pantheon of corporate titans slugging it out for the favor of mere mortals. An excellent primer in real-world marketing strategy as well as theoretical aspects of marketing psychology. Contains some mature content.

 

 

Jeans: A Faded Blue Planet

 

Description

From humble beginnings as durable clothing for workers in the mining towns of the Wild West, jeans have evolved into a cultural icon. The attire of a cowboy, a hero, a rock star and an ex-convict, jeans have played a part in anti-establishment movements and mainstream fashion alike. Through interviews with fashion designers, jean tailors, historians and aficionados, Jeans traces the dissemination of denim and its cultural myths from America to the rest of the world and the formation of a global industry.

 

 

Trendmakers, Part 3

 

Description

Set in Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo, this 4-part series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the work of fashion designers, makeup artists, celebrity hair stylists and photographers who are leading Asia's fashion revolution. They are the most sought after professionals in the industry, trendsetters in today's fashion and style; and they share their secrets to beauty, vision and success.

 

 

Trendmakers, Part 1

 

Description

Set in Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore and Tokyo, this 4-part series offers a behind-the-scenes look at the work of fashion designers, makeup artists, celebrity hair stylists and photographers who are leading Asia's fashion revolution. They are the most sought after professionals in the industry, trendsetters in today's fashion and style; and they share their secrets to beauty, vision and success.

 

 

Naked Fashion: The New Sustainable Fashion Revolution

 

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Naked Fashion invites you to join the movement of consumers, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals who are using their purchasing power, talents, and experience to make fashion more sustainable.

Anyone with an active interest in fashion and where our clothes come from or looking for a career in fashion and the media will find inspiration and advice on how to make a difference.

 

 

New Fashion Designers’ Sketchbooks

 

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An invaluable resource for fashion students, teachers and designers, this book looks at research sketchbooks and the role they play in the research and design process. This book demonstrates how ideas are constructed, for single garments and entire collections, and looks at how pages and whole sketchbooks are put together.

 

The Ultimate Fashion Study Guide: The Design Process

 

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A one-step, HOW-TO, resource for introductory Fashion Design study. Provides the fundamentals required to quickly grasp the skills for success in a highly competitive industry. Packed with vital information, tips, templates, tools, techniques, inspiration and over 600 illustrations and images. Includes CD-ROM with design templates.

 

 

The Fashion Designer’s Textile Directory: A Guide to Fabric’s Properties, Characteristics, and Garment-Design Potential

 

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This valuable materials directory for professional dressmakers and fashion designers is also a good reference source for students of fashion design, as well as for those who make their own garments. The author points out the best fabrics for creating specific garments, explaining how each fabric's qualities make it suitable for various items of apparel. Knowing which fabrics can support a structured silhouette is fundamental to fashion design, and this book explains the use of stiff or crisply textured fabrics for tailored garments, as well as soft textured fabrics for rounded forms. Ornamentation is also discussed, and includes advice on how to work with different fabrics to create what author Gail Baugh classifies as opulent, simple, and in-between decorative effects. 

 

 

Color and Design

 

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From products we use to clothes we wear, and spaces we inhabit, we rely on colour to provide visual appeal, data codes and meaning. Color and Design addresses how we understand and experience colour, and through specific examples explores how colour is used in a spectrum of design-based disciplines including apparel design, graphic design, interior design, and product design.

Through highly engaging contributions from a wide range of international scholars and practitioners, the book explores colour as an individual and cultural phenomenon, as a pragmatic device for communication, and as a valuable marketing tool.
 

 

Draping for Apparel Design

 

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Draping for Apparel Design combines step-by-step instructions illustrated to present the principles and methods of draping. Author Helen Joseph-Armstrong incorporates three draping techniques--manipulating dart excess, adding fullness, and contour draping--in design projects featured throughout the text. Projects begin with a draping plan and fashion drawing to identify its creative elements, and determine the draping technique required. The author describes the drape of the basic dress and its relationship to every garment in a clothing collection.

 

 

Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity

 

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Through a highly original and detailed analysis of the memoirs, interviews and other life writings of Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli, this book explores changing notions of femininity in the early decades of the 20th century, when the democratization of fashion began.

Examining idea of modernity, eternity and the ephemeral in the writings of these haute couturiers, the book reflects on fashion's ambivalent approach to women, which both celebrated and vilified them, presenting them as both ultra modern style leaders and irrational creatures stuck in the past.

This fascinating text is key reading for scholars and students of fashion, gender studies, cultural studies and history.

 

 

Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

Poiret, Dior and Shiaparelli is shelved as Call # GT1720 .P37 2012.

 

As a book it can be found on Bookstack 1 - Shelf 15. This book can be checked out for a period of 2 weeks for students, faculty and staff.

 

 

About the Author*

Ilya Parkins is Assistant Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan, Canada.

 

 

Review*

By Mary Lynn Stewart, Simon Fraser University:

Although this slim but thickly-argued book provides basic information about three important French designers, their fashion houses and signature styles and is informed by the existing scholarship on the history of haute couture, Poiret, Dior and Schiaparelli: Fashion, Femininity and Modernity is not so much a work of fashion history as it is a new and promising combination of autobiographical analyses, feminist theory and philosophy.

 

 

Citations

Description, About the Author, and Review taken from Amazon

 

Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change

 

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Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. The book is organized in three parts. The first part is concerned with transforming fashion products across the garment's lifecycle and includes innovation in materials, manufacture, distribution, use, and re-use. The second part looks at ideas that are transforming the fashion system at root into something more sustainable, including new business models that reduce material output. The third section is concerned with transforming the role of fashion designers and looks to examples where the designer changes from a stylist or shaper of things into a communicator, activist or facilitator.

 

 

The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk

 

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The Swimsuit: Fashion from Poolside to Catwalk documents the modern swimsuit's trajectory from men's underwear and circus/performance wear to its unique niche in world fashion. It emphasizes the relationship between fashion, media, celebrity, sport and the cultivation of the modern body. This fascinating book provides an historical, sociological and cultural context in which to view how the swimsuit - and Australia, the country that significantly influenced its modern form - migrated from the cultural and colonial periphery to the centre of international attention. In addition, the book offers new perspectives on national histories of the swimsuit and investigates how traditional European fashion centers have opened up to new markets and modes of living, bringing together influences from around the globe. The Swimsuit is essential reading for students, scholars, and the general reader interested in fashion, popular culture, history, media, sport, and gender studies.

 

 

Fashion and Celebrity Culture

 

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The interrelationship between fashion and celebrity is now a salient and pervasive feature of the media world. This accessible text presents the first in-depth study of the phenomenon, assessing the degree to which celebrity culture has reshaped the fashion system.

 

Fashion and Celebrity Culture critically examines the history of this relationship from its growth in the nineteenth century to its mutation during the twentieth century to the dramatic changes that have transpired in the last two decades. It addresses the fashion-celebrity nexus as it plays itself out across mainstream cinema, television and music and in the celebrity status of a range of designers, models and artists. It explores the strategies that have enabled visual culture to recast itself in the new climate of celebrity obsession, popular culture and the art world to respond adaptively to its insistent pressures.

 

With its engaging analysis and case studies from Lillian Gish to Louis Vuitton to Lady Gaga, Fashion and Celebrity Culture is of major interest to students of fashion, media studies, film, television studies and popular culture, and anyone with an interest in this global phenomenon.

 

The Wedding Designers, Sarah Arnett

 

Description

The top names in bridal fashion share their secrets, tips and recent collections, presenting a remarkable insight into the many aspects of running a successful bridal wear business: starting a shop, marketing their label, the conceptual and practical steps of design, material choice, and the satisfaction of creating a perfect embodiment of a bride's dream.

 

Sarah Arnett demonstrates her approach to digital pattern design and the process of tailoring a perfect dress for a beautiful bride one appointment at a time.

 

 

Where to Find It and Borrowing Time

The Wedding Designers, Sarah Arnett is shelved as Call # TT507 .W4372 2009.

 

As a DVD it can be found on the bottom shelf of the DVD Bin in front of Bookstack 3. This DVD can be viewed in the library by students, or checked out for a period of 2 weeks by staff and faculty.

 

Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion

 

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Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion is about how cheap fashion has fundamentally changed the way most Americans dress. Stores ranging from discounters like Target to traditional chains like JCPenny now offer the newest trends at unprecedentedly low prices. And we have little reason to keep wearing and repairing the clothes we already own when styles change so fast and it’s cheaper to just buy more.

Cline sets out to uncover the true nature of the cheap fashion juggernaut. What are we doing with all these cheap clothes? And more important, what are they doing to us, our society, our environment, and our economic well-being?

 

GO SHOPPING!

This week at the Galleria Mall several of our students have styled trend displays from selected retailers! Check out their looks, then come back Saturday for the Leading with Style fashion event where mall retailers will feature the latest trends. 

The show starts at 2:00pm in the center court of Galleria Mall. Some of the looks will be modeled by community leaders and the show will be emceed by Stephanie Jay of FOX 5. Come show your support for this great event and pass it on!

Drawing Competition

Prove that you are the Ultimate Drawing Champion! 

On Thursday, May 2nd, from 1:30-2:30 face off against your fellow students by developing a character and developing an environment. 

What do you win? Eternal flame and glory. PLUS an "Award of Awesomeness" bestowed upon you by the great Roy Wilson.