Download or read book Designing Fashion s Future written by Alice Payne and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In-depth interviews with international fashion practitioners explore the technical and creative processes of the fashion industry and their ethical and environmental implications. Alice Payne explores 'design' as a process, object, and agent that shapes fashion's material and symbolic worlds. More than 50 interviews and case studies present diverse perspectives from fashion professionals from multinational retailers, independent and experimental contexts to ground the discussion in contemporary industry practices"--

Download or read book The Future of Fashion is Now written by José Teunissen and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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).

Download or read book Designing Fashion s Future written by Alice Payne and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-10 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Download or read book Your Future in Fashion Design written by Fashion Group and published by ARCO. This book was released on 1971 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen prominent designers in the fashion industry discuss the rewards and requirements of careers in their design specialities, such as separates, custom order clothes, sportswear, accessories, and shoes.

Download or read book Circular Design for Fashion written by ELLEN MACARTHUR FOUNDATION. PUBLISHING and published by . This book was released on 2021-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At heart, this book aims to inspire fearless innovators committed to spearheading the future of fashion. It is for all of us looking to make a positive impact in an industry that we love and care about. It is increasingly acknowledged that the practice of design is not exclusive to designers, nor is it found only in studios. The materials, garments, services, shows, supply chains and stores that make up the fashion industry all work the way they do because of innumerable design decisions, made by creatives all over the world. Circular design goes far beyond rethinking single products or services, it has the potential to redefine how the entire fashion system operates. It's a chance for anyone in the fashion industry - regardless of job title - to support the shift to a circular economy where, by design, waste and pollution are eliminated, products and materials are circulated, and nature is regenerated. Circular design is a pioneering practice of design. It is the creative opportunity of the coming decade for the creatives, innovators, and pioneers who seek to reshape the fashion industry.

Download or read book Fashion Design for Kids written by Jane Smith and published by Rockridge Press. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore a future in fashion design with creative activities for fashion-minded kids ages 8 to 12 Whether you want to pursue a career in fashion or you simply love being creative in new ways, Fashion Design for Kids will teach you about the fashion industry and show you how to build a design portfolio of your own--no sewing required. Learn about how the entire design process works, from the first idea all the way through to the final product. Then, get your creativity flowing with a variety of focused activities, from forecasting trends to making a mood board and sketching your own designs. You'll build up your skills with step-by-step instructions for drawing garments, jewelry, prints and patterns, the human form in different poses, and more. Finally, you'll design your very own Fashion Week collection! Fashion Design for Kids includes: On-the-page activities--No need for a needle and thread! All of these skill-building exercises can be done in the book, where you'll find plenty of room to get creative. An inclusive approach--Anyone can become a fashion designer--interactive, gender-neutral activities are geared toward kids of all identities and backgrounds. Fashion design terms explained--You'll find detailed explanations of fashion design concepts and terminology used by industry pros. Discover the joy of fashion design for kids with this engaging activity book.

Download or read book The Future Of The Fashion Industry How Technologies Will Revolutionize The Fashion Industry The Benefits Of Leveraging Robots In The Fashion Industry And How To Earn Substantial Money Online So That You Can Afford To Procure Your Own Smart Clothing written by Dr Harrison Sachs and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-23 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essay sheds light on the future of the fashion industry and explicates how technologies will revolutionize the fashion industry. Moreover, the benefits of leveraging robots in the fashion industry are demystified in this essay. Furthermore, how to earn substantial money online so that you can afford to procure your own smart clothing products is expounded upon in this essay.The future of the fashion industry will not only be characterized by dynamism as it continues to metaphorically evolve, but will also be eminently auspicious for fashion designers, supply chain members, retailers, and customers. Technological advancements are profoundly changing the fashion industry and are rendering it all the more technology driven. Technologies advancements have even been "automating the fashion designer" ("The Future Of," 2019). In the coming years, "artificial intelligence will further reshape brands' approach to product design and development, with a focus on predicting what customers will want to wear next. Google for instance has already tested the waters of user-driven artificial intelligence fashion design with Project Muze, The project trained a neural network to understand colors, textures, style preferences, and other 'esthetic parameters, ' derived from Google's Fashion Trends Report as well as design and trend data sourced by Zalando. From there, Project Muze used an algorithm to create designs based on users' interests and alignment with the style preferences recognized by the network" . Similarly to Google, "Amazon is innovating in this area as well. One Amazon project, would use machine learning to assess whether an item is 'stylish' or not. Another, out of Amazon's Lab126 R&D arm in California, would use images to learn about a particular fashion style and create similar images from scratch" ("The Future Of," 2019). In the coming years, artificially intelligent fashion designers will leverage deep learning in order to churn out original designs based on "images, themes, and keywords imported by human designers" ("The Future Of," 2019). It would be unsurprising if artificially intelligent fashion designers designed some of the fashion industry's best selling products. Artificial intelligence is able to understand to understand customer preferences in far greater depth than human fashion designers. Artificial intelligence will become more prevalent in the fashion industry in the coming years as brands become more dependent on leveraging "artificial intelligence systems" ("The Future Of," 2019) to bring their grandiose visions to fruition. Artificial intelligence has begun to influence the future trajectories of fashion brands and will play a more prominent role in the fashion industry in the coming years as "artificial intelligence systems" ("The Future Of," 2019) becomes more ubiquitous among fashion brands. For instance, "Stitch Fix is already at the forefront of artificial intelligence driven fashion with its 'Hybrid Design' garments, which are created by algorithms that identify trends and styles missing from the Stitch Fix inventory and suggest new designs based on combinations of consumers' favorite colors, patterns, and textiles for human designers' approval. The company has said that the artificial intelligence designed pieces perform comparably in 'keeper' sales to the garments from its fashion-brand suppliers. That is likely because Stitch Fix has such vast troves of customer data informing its artificial intelligence, thanks to its subscription-based, feedback-focused business model" ("The Future Of," 2019). Artificial intelligence can assist fashion brands with developing the quintessential fashion products that are designed to sell based on the customer's preferences and purchasing history. The usage of artificial intelligence in the fashion industry can help fashion companies attain higher profit margins, higher sales volumes, higher revenue, and increased customer retention rates.

Download or read book Fashion written by Lars Svendsen and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 2006-10-30 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion is at once a familiar yet mysteriously elite world that we all experience, whether we’re buying a new pair of jeans, reading Vogue, or watching the latest episode of Project Runway. Lars Svendsen dives into that world in Fashion, exploring the myths, ideas, and history that make up haute couture, the must-have trends over the centuries, and the very concept of fashion itself. Fashion opens with an exploration of all the possible meanings encompassed by the word “fashion,” as Svendsen probes its elusive place in art, politics, and history. Ultimately, however, he focuses on the most common use of the term: clothing. With his trademark dry wit, he deftly dismantles many of the axioms of the industry and its supporters. For example, he points out that some of the latest fashions shown on runways aren’t actually “fashionable” in any sense of the word, arguing that they’re more akin to modern art works, and he argues against the increasingly prevalent idea that plastic surgery and body modification are part of a new wave of consumerism. Svendsen draws upon the writings of thinkers from Adam Smith to Roland Barthes to analyze fashion as both a historical phenomenon and a philosophy of aesthetics. He also traces the connections between the concepts of fashion and modernity and ultimately considers the importance of evolving fashions to such fields as art, politics, and philosophy. Whether critiquing a relentless media culture that promotes perfect bodies or parsing the never-ending debate over the merits of conformity versus individual style, Lars Svendsen offers an engaging and intriguing analysis of fashion and the motivations behind its constant pursuit of the new.

Download or read book Fashion Sustainability written by Kate Fletcher and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2012-04-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how sustainability has the potential to transform both the fashion system and the innovators who work within it. Sustainability is arguably the defining theme of the twenty-first century. The issues in fashion are broad-ranging and include labour abuses, toxic chemicals use and conspicuous consumption, giving rise to an undeniable tension between fashion and sustainability. 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 throughput. The third section is concerned with transforming the role of fashion designers and looks to examples where the designer changes from a stylist or creator into a communicator, activist or facilitator.

Download or read book Smart Textiles for Designers written by Rebeccah Pailes-Friedman and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are on the cusp of a revolution, where the intersection of technology, the human body and everyday objects will become completely seamless. Smart textiles are a key part of this revolution. Smart Textiles for Designers introduces the different qualities and properties that can be embedded in, integrated with, and applied to fabrics and looks at the different contexts in which these smart textiles can be used, from healthcare to haute couture, firefighting to sportswear. A survey of specific fabrics grouped by properties provides a core reference section and a palette for the designer to work from. The book also examines five different design approaches and features interviews with leading designers and design teams, showing their processes and working methods. The first book to look at this exciting and quickly developing area of technology through the eyes of a designer, this is both a core reference work and an inspirational guide for students and professionals alike.

Download or read book Design as Future Making written by Susan Yelavich and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-09-25 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design as Future-Making brings together leading international designers, scholars, and critics to address ways in which design is shaping the future. The contributors share an understanding of design as a practice that, with its focus on innovation and newness, is a natural ally of futurity. Ultimately, the choices made by designers are understood here as choices about the kind of world we want to live in. Design as Future-Making locates design in a space of creative and critical reflection, examining the expanding nature of practice in fields such as biomedicine, sustainability, digital crafting, fashion, architecture, urbanism, and design activism. The authors contextualize design and its affects within issues of social justice, environmental health, political agency, education, and the right to pleasure and play. Collectively, they make the case that, as an integrated mode of thought and action, design is intrinsically social and deeply political.

Download or read book Sustainable Fashion written by Jennifer Farley Gordon and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-11-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable Fashion provides a unique and accessible overview of fashion ethics and sustainability issues of the past, present and future. This book is the first to situate today's eco-fashion movement in its multifaceted historical context, investigating the relationship between fashion and the environment as far back as the early nineteenth century. Employing an expanded definition of sustainability that also considers ethical issues, Farley Gordon and Hill explore each stage of the fashion production cycle, from the cultivation of raw fibers to the shipment of the finished garment. Structured thematically, each of the six chapters is dedicated to the discussion of one major issue, from recycling and repurposing to labor practices and the treatment of animals. Including interviews with eco-fashion designers, Sustainable Fashion will appeal to students and scholars of fashion, as well as students of design, history and cultural studies.

Download or read book Textiles Identity and Innovation Design the Future written by Gianni Montagna and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: D_TEX presents itself as a starting point at a crossroads of ideas and debates around the complex universe of Textile Design in all its forms, manifestations and dimensions. The textile universe, allied to mankind since its beginnings, is increasingly far from being an area of exhausted possibilities, each moment proposing important innovations that need a presentation, discussion and maturation space that is comprehensive and above all inter- and transdisciplinary. Presently, the disciplinary areas where the textile area is present are increasing and important, such as fashion, home textiles, technical clothing and accessories, but also construction and health, among others, and can provide new possibilities and different disciplinary areas and allowing the production of new knowledge. D_TEX proposes to join the thinking of design, with technologies, tradition, techniques, and related areas, in a single space where ideas are combined with the technique and with the projectual and research capacity, thus providing for the creation of concepts, opinions, associations of ideas, links and connections that allow the conception of ideas, products and services. The interdisciplinary nature of design is a reality that fully reaches the textile material in its essence and its practical application, through the synergy and contamination by the different interventions that make up the multidisciplinary teams of research. The generic theme of D_TEX Textile Design Conference 2017, held at Lisbon School of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, Portugal on November 2-4, 2017, is Design the Future, starting from the crossroads of ideas and debates, a new starting point for the exploration of textile materials, their identities and innovations in all their dimensions.

Download or read book Fashionopolis written by Dana Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the damage wrought by the colossal clothing industry--and the grassroots, high-tech, international movement fighting to reform it from a bestselling journalist who has traveled the globe to discover the visionary designers and companies who are propelling the industry toward that more positive future.ture.

Download or read book Speculative Everything written by Anthony Dunne and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to use design as a tool to create not only things but ideas, to speculate about possible futures. Today designers often focus on making technology easy to use, sexy, and consumable. In Speculative Everything, Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby propose a kind of design that is used as a tool to create not only things but ideas. For them, design is a means of speculating about how things could be—to imagine possible futures. This is not the usual sort of predicting or forecasting, spotting trends and extrapolating; these kinds of predictions have been proven wrong, again and again. Instead, Dunne and Raby pose “what if” questions that are intended to open debate and discussion about the kind of future people want (and do not want). Speculative Everything offers a tour through an emerging cultural landscape of design ideas, ideals, and approaches. Dunne and Raby cite examples from their own design and teaching and from other projects from fine art, design, architecture, cinema, and photography. They also draw on futurology, political theory, the philosophy of technology, and literary fiction. They show us, for example, ideas for a solar kitchen restaurant; a flypaper robotic clock; a menstruation machine; a cloud-seeding truck; a phantom-limb sensation recorder; and devices for food foraging that use the tools of synthetic biology. Dunne and Raby contend that if we speculate more—about everything—reality will become more malleable. The ideas freed by speculative design increase the odds of achieving desirable futures.

Download or read book Research and Design for Fashion written by Richard Sorger and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fashion demands a steady flow of creative ideas. Research and Design for Fashion will guide you through the research techniques that could spark your next original collection. With practical advice on designing effective moodboards, recycling existing garments and getting to know your customer, this new edition will help you master the research process and apply it to your own designs. There's also a wealth of advice through interviews with exceptional designers, including Christopher Raeburn, ThreeASFOUR and Magdaléna Mikulicáková, as well as updated imagery of the research and design work behind both single garments and entire collections. This fourth edition also explores how cultural events, historical anniversaries and sport influences can be the starting point for a collection. There's also more on creative ways of recording your findings and designing for menswear, childrenswear and gender-neutral clothing.

Download or read book ITEMS written by Paola Antonelli and published by Moma. This book was released on 2017 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An encyclopaedic selection of 111 garments, footwear, and accessories - from humble masterpieces to high fashion - that have had a strong impact on society in the 20th and 21st centuries and continue to hold currency today. Published to accompany the first major exhibition on fashion design at The Museum of Modern Art since 1944, Items: Is Fashion Modern? presents 111 iconic garments, footwear and accessories that have strongly influenced society in the 20th and 21st- centuries and continue to hold currency today. Organized alphabetically as a reference book, the publication examines the ways in which these items are designed, manufactured, distributed and used, while exploring the wide range of relationships between clothing and functionality, cultural etiquettes, aesthetics, politics and technology. Designs as wellknown and transformative as the Levi's 501s, the pearl necklace, the sari and Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking - and as ancient and historically rich as the Breton sweater, the kippah, and the keffiyeh - are included, allowing for exploration of the numerous issues these items have produced and shaped over many decades. Richly illustrated with historical and archival imagery as well as newly commissioned photography from Omar Victor Diop, Bobby Doherty, Catherine Losing, Monika Mogi and Kristin-Lee Moolman, Items reflects not only on fashion's power and social history, but also on its design construct and staying power, in order to understand what of the system of fashion should remain for generations to come - and what alterations need to be made to ensure a tenable future for this arena that touches us all.