Future Fashion

The fusion between fashion, technology and design is more dynamic than ever before and this collaboration has generated original materials and alternative fabrics. Featuring the work of innovative designers, FUTURE FASHION is essential for all those who want to stay on top of the emerging directions in fashion technology and devolpements in textiles and materials.

*NYTBR Paperback Row Selection * The Independent's Best Fashion Book on Sustainability* An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it What should I wear? It’s one of the fundamental questions we ask ourselves every day. More than ever, we are told it should be something new. Today, the clothing industry churns out 80 billion garments a year and employs every sixth person on Earth. Historically, the apparel trade has exploited labor, the environment, and intellectual property—and in the last three decades, with the simultaneous unfurling of fast fashion, globalization, and the tech revolution, those abuses have multiplied exponentially, primarily out of view. We are in dire need of an entirely new human-scale model. Bestselling journalist Dana Thomas has traveled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future by reclaiming traditional craft and launching cutting-edge sustainable technologies to produce better fashion. In Fashionopolis, Thomas sees renewal in a host of developments, including printing 3-D clothes, clean denim processing, smart manufacturing, hyperlocalism, fabric recycling—even lab-grown materials. From small-town makers and Silicon Valley whizzes to such household names as Stella McCartney, Levi’s, and Rent the Runway, Thomas highlights the companies big and small that are leading the crusade. We all have been casual about our clothes. It's time to get dressed with intention. Fashionopolis is the first comprehensive look at how to start.

“Fashion drawing for future fashion designers” is practical and inspiring at the same time. The book was created for young fashion enthusiasts who are serious about clothing design and need professional guidance and inspiration. Irina V Ivanova the author of the book is a professional fashion designer, the author of Numerous fashion Croquis books” for professional fashion designers, and a line of more than 15 professionally designed sketchbooks. The book Irina endeavor to make an introduction into clothing design illustration without compromising the integrity of the subject but at the same time making clothing design illustration fun and appealing to anyone new to the fashion illustration To get the most out of this book practice following step by step tutorials, improvise, and experiment with the methods of illustration displayed in the book 3 creative fashion projects: t 3 looks designed step by step with the same figure template additional 15 illustrations for each look to make a collection hairstyle ideas and t drawing tutorials, inspiration and practical drawing tips

Fashion illustration workbook for future fashion designers is a practical activity book for creative teenagers interested in fashion and fashion design. Book includes drawing prompts, illustrations in pre-colored lines design to render and to color. The Fashion illustration workbook includes 10 projects united by style but open for creative interpretation. What makes this book different: designs included in the book are real professional standards. The book is fun and easy to follow however it holds the level of professional fashion illustration and could be used for developing your first fashion portfolio. Learn professional level of fashion drawing skills while having fun. Book include inspirational illustrations for inspiration. How to use the book · Use pencils, markers, crayons, gel pens, or a combination of all of them to color this book. · To reduce the smearing of your drawing, keep a clean sheet of paper under your hand. · Place an extra sheet of paper under the page you are coloring to prevent ink from bleeding through or avoid marks and grooves underneath the coloring page. · Like what you accomplished? Frame it!! Sprat your fashion illustration gallery or give it as a creative unique gift What is in the book? · 10 coloring pages · 20 looks to color and render · step-by-step drawing demos to follow · color creatively with design inspirations from the book Who should use the book? · creative teenagers who are thinking of fashion career · beginners who interested in fashion drawing as fun and inspirational activity · fashionistas of all ages who want to make a fashion statement in a form of art and fashion drawing The book is a creation of fashion designer and illustrator Irina V Ivanova, author of the Fashion Croquis Books and Fashion Croquis Sketchbooks

A garment that responds to emotions, lace patterns that grow from a plant, textile that decomposes itself and fashion that literally zips people together ... With a critical look at today's fashion industry, more than fifty young designers and a number of illustrious innovators such as Viktor & Rolf and Comme des Garçons give us their vision of the fashion of tomorrow. The development of new technologies and a grasp of the importance of sustainability are what is driving young designers worldwide and causing them to expand the borders of the traditional fashion system. With their innovative solutions and fresh designs, this latest generation of fashion designers has arrived at the interface between fashion and art. At the invitation of Han Nefkens Fashion on the Edge, and scouted by fashion experts from around the world, six designers have each produced a new work especially for the exhibition 'The future of fashion is now': Iris van Herpen (the Netherlands), Digest Design Workshop (China), Lucía Cuba (Peru), Craig Green (Great Britain), D & K (Australia) and Olek (Poland/the United States). This book not only provides an overview of the work by the more than fifty designers being shown at the exhibition, but it also traces the development of and ideas behind the exhibition's special works. Exhibition: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (11.10.2014-18.01.2015).

How do fashion designers design? How does design function within the industry? How can design practices open up sustainable pathways for fashion's future? Designing Fashion's Future responds to these questions to offer a fresh understanding of design practices within the sprawling, shifting fashion system. Fashion design is typically viewed as the rarefied practice of elite professionals, or else as a single stage within the apparel value chain. Alice Payne shows how design needn't be reduced to a set of decisions by a designer or design team, but can instead be examined as a process, object, or agent that shapes fashion's material and symbolic worlds. Designing Fashion's Future draws on more than 50 interviews with industry professionals based in Australia, Asia, North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom. These diverse perspectives from multinational retailers, independent and experimental contexts ground the discussion in contemporary industry practices.

This title presents a wide-ranging survey of the visionary clothing designs, new materials, cutting-edge technologies, and emerging trends shaping the future of fashion. The book features interviews with leading designers and trend forecasters.