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Footwear design / Aki Choklat.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Choklat, Aki, author, author.
- Series:
- Portfolio skills. Fashion & textiles.
- Portfolio skills. Fashion & textiles
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shoes--Design.
- Shoes.
- Footwear--Design.
- Footwear.
- Footwear industry--Vocational guidance.
- Footwear industry.
- Shoemakers--Interviews.
- Shoemakers.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (192 pages)
- Edition:
- [Enhanced Credo edition]
- Place of Publication:
- London [England] : Laurence King Publishing, [2012]
- Boston, Massachusetts : Credo Reference, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Aki Choklat explores the footwear design process, explaining the differences between the anatomy of the foot and the anatomy of a shoe, showing how one constrains the other, before moving onto the research and design development processes and the art of creating a complete collection.
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Footwear design then and now: Fashion and celebrity-the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; Haute couture and seasonal fashion cycles-the nineteenth century; Innovation and street fashion-the twentieth century; The future of footwear design-the twenty-first century; The footwear industry; Case study: Liza Snook; Case study: Catherine Willems
- Chapter 2. Shoe basics: Foot anatomy; Shoe anatomy; The last; Patterns; Materials used in the shoe industry; Shoe styles; Case study: Sebastian Tarek
- Chapter 3 Research: Inspiration; Investigation; The process; Compiling a sketchbook; Mood board; Digital research; Creating an ideas book; Color and materials; Trend analysis and forecasting; Case study: Nicoline Van Enter; Case study: Niels Holger Wien
- Chapter 4. Collection design: Design development; Collection theory; Case study: Minna Parikka; Case study: Rosanne Bergsma; Case study: Stuart Weitzman; Case study: Paco Gil
- Chapter 5. Presentation: Presenting your ideas; Drawing; Technical drawings and line drawings; Mixed media; The design pack; Portfolio; After graduation
- Chapter 6. Training and working in the footwear industry: Training; Footwear careers; Case study: Rachel Jones; Seasons and trade shows; Case study: Sue Saunders
- Glossary
- Useful information
- Acknowledgments.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on title page of print version.
- ISBN:
- 1-78539-162-3
- 1-78067-199-7
- OCLC:
- 915350143
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