Fashion school survival guide / Ezinma Mbonu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mbeledogu, Ezinma, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fashion design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Laurence King Publishing, [2015]

Summary:

* Tips covering common pitfalls for students* Accompanied by beautiful inspirational and technical illustrations* Useful basic information in an attractive, accessible and affordable format.

Contents:

Intro

Introduction

1. Presenting your research

2. Drawing topstitching

3. Sticking imagery in your sketchbook

4. Different sized sketchbooks

5. Mark-making techniques

6. Karl Lagerfeld

7. Improve your time management

8. Rip fabric along the grain line

9. Put your name on your portfolio

10. Start your own personal library

11. Womenswear fastens right over left

12. Coco Chanel

13. Matching threads to fabric

14. Modeling garments for presentation

15. Nervous about presenting?

16. Silhouette

17. Combining different fabrics

18. Mary Quant

19. Vintage and thrift stores

20. The bias

21. Constructive criticism

22. Testing art media

23. Practise machining straight lines

24. Yves Saint-Laurent

25. Bagging garments out

26. Give your fashion drawings hands

27. Start a fabric library

28. Consider different fastenings

29. Miuccia Prada

30. Making good eye contact

31. Draw from life

32. Fashion illustrations are nine heads

33. Different types of pockets

34. Yohji Yamamoto

35. Develop your initial design ideas

36. Showcasing fabric swatches

37. Alexander McQueen

38. Cutting chiffon

39. Pattern-cutting table

40. Presentation sheet templates

41. Vivienne Westwood

42. Use a photocopier creatively

43. Go window-shopping

44. Pattern pieces and fabric pile

45. Limit eraser use in sketchbooks

46. The warp of the fabric

47. Orson Wells

48. Proportion

49. Clean your portfolio

50. Get involved

51. Always remove dressmaking pins

52. Avoid too many black and white photocopies

53. Lady Gaga

54. Give your fashion drawings faces

55. Different types of collar

56. Buy or make a sketchbook?

57. Buy a sketchbook with fewer pages than you can fill

58. Always read around your research topic.

59. Sewing leather

60. Diana Vreeland

61. Draw, draw and draw some more

62. Happy feet

63. Where to place zips/zippers

64. Best direction for button holes

65. Use a fixative on soft art media

66. Ralph Lauren

67. Style Lines

68. Include shoes in your fashion sketches

69. Don't forget to include darts in your flats

70. Long, narrow skirts

71. Don't forget fabric swatches in your sketchbook

72. The warp of fabric

73. Anna Wintour

74. Pleats

75. Separate scissors for cutting paper and fabric

76. Create a template for a fashion drawing

77. Securing pattern pieces

78. The grain line

79. Oscar Wilde

80. Always add a seam allowance

81. Practise your presentation

82. Find out how wide the fabric is

83. Magnets

84. Templates for each project in your portfolio

85. Jean Cocteau

86. Zips/Zippers

87. Collect inspiring things

88. Ensure symmetry with hand-drawn flats

89. The right side of the fabric

90. There's no such word as can't

91. Avoid using soft pencils for fashion drawing

92. When drawing flats, keep garments in proportion

93. Avoid printing low-res imagery

94. Centre-front and centre-back seams

95. Womenswear sizing: dresses, jackets and coats

96. Menswear sizing: suits, jackets and coats

97. Menswear: trousers

98. Menswear: dress shirts

99. Womens shoe sizes

100. Mens shoe sizes

Ezinma Mbonu

Anna Hammer

Ayako Koyama.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-78067-881-9