Learn how to draw fashion images that communicate design ideas and details. With more than 3,000 color illustrations and updated instructions, the book shows you how to draw women, men, and children, pose the figure, develop the fashion head and face, sketch accessories, add garment details, and prepare flats and specs. Learn more advanced techniques for rendering color, fabrics, and embellishments, from houndstooth and velvet to feathers and fringe. Bina Abling's detailed, easy-to-follow lessons have clear diagrams and runway photographs to help you develop your drawing skills. New to this Edition: -Discusses of sustainability as a mainstay in the fashion industry -Includes practice templates -New videos in STUDIO to support student learning STUDIO Features Include: -Watch videos that bring chapter concepts to life -Study smarter with self-quizzes featuring scored results and personalized study tips -Review concepts with flashcards of essential vocabulary Instructor Resources -Instructor's Guide provides suggestions for planning the course and using the text in the classroom -PowerPoint Slides for each chapter to help incorporate the text into the classroom

"A bible of drawing techniques for fashion design." Wendy Moody, Anglia Ruskin University, UK Learn how to draw fashion images that communicate design ideas and details. With more than 3,000 color illustrations and updated instructions, the book shows you how to draw women, men, and children, pose the figure, develop the fashion head and face, sketch accessories, add garment details, and prepare flats and specs. Learn more advanced techniques for rendering color, fabrics, and embellishments, from houndstooth and velvet to feathers and fringe. Bina Abling's detailed, easy-to-follow lessons have clear diagrams and runway photographs to help you develop your drawing skills. Fashion Sketchbook STUDIO -Watch video tutorials that bring chapter topics and examples to life -Access downloadable files for additional exercises, templates, and croquis

Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing is a step-by-step workbook for learning technical drawing and flat sketching skills. With more than 500 hand-drawn and CAD-rendered flats and 100 photos of finished samples showing how a sketch translates to a 3D garment, the book covers a range of garments and construction details used to communicate fashion designs for portfolios and production. Abling and DaCosta progress from basic design construction details such as darts, gathers, and trims to essential garment styles including skirts, tops, dresses, pants, jackets and coats. The book includes unique coverage of presentation of flats in a portfolio and critical step of preparing flats for a technical package and productions. Downloadable figure templates and flats library are available online. This book is an essential resource for fashion designers to learn technical drawing skills that effectively communicate fashion design concepts. Features * Shows front-view and back-view flats, select side-view and 3/4-view flats, plus variations for menswear and childrenswear * Covers basic CAD techniques, how to use the pen tool, and methods for translating hand-drawn flats to digital drawings * Guest Artist features showcase professional designer styles for flats to inspire creativity * Practical format includes lay-flat spiral binding and drawing practice pages with grids and figure templates Fashion Flats and Technical Drawing STUDIO * Download figure templates and basic garment flats that can be used in different CAD programs or printed out for reference or practice * Access extra drawing exercises and project using women's, men's, and children's flat figure templates * Review concepts with flashcards of essential fashion vocabulary Teaching Resources * The Instructor's Resources include sample course syllabi, test questions, visual quizzes and grading guidelines.

With the growing trend of licensing apparel, accessories, and home fashions under a single logo, today's students must expand their portfolios to include concepts with broader applications. Marker Rendering for Fashion, Accessories, and Home Fashions provides detailed instructions for marker rendering methods relevant to a variety of products. Allowing designers to express their ideas immediately, the marker is an essential tool for the design professional. The author's step-by-step instructions provide a sound introduction to the skills that students need, and teaches methods of overlapping media applications for an assortment of colors, patterns, and materials. The lessons are taught as a progression of skills, building slowly from basic to complex rendering methods used in the design industry today.

Dictionary of Fashion, 4th Edition builds on the success of previous editions with over 15,000 entries, including apparel, accessories, and their components, historical and textiles terms that relate to contemporary fashion and the language of the fashion industry. Tortora and Keiser organize terms over fifty broad categories that are fully cross-referenced to the alphabetical listing to promote understanding of related terminology. Lavishly illustrated with over 900 illustrations capturing the styles and details of fashion, this reference work is a must have for students, designers, fashion merchandisers, historians, and fashion enthusiasts.

This new reference provides a broad overview of contemporary fashion accessories. Not only does the work focus on individual categories of fashion, but it also examines the components from which accessories are constructed. This encyclopedia is a comprehensive resource for anyone seeking information about fashion accessories.