High fashion unquestionably goes hand-in-hand with sartorial and stylistic perfection. A driving force behind the entire fashion and garment industry, it represents the search for new solutions concerning fabrics, style, or patterns. In this context, the patternmaker is an essential figure, bringing the stylist's ideas into reality. In our richly illustrated new volume of the Fashion Patternmaking series, the prolific author Antonio Donnanno, an offspring of a tailor family, patternmaking teacher, and director of a fashion school network, describes in detail the methods and techniques used in high-fashion patternmaking in an understandable and step-by-step way.
The Patternmaking Techniques series is in print in Italy for now 10 years in 13 editions.
The author is a tailor and tailoring teacher and director of a group of fashion design schools.
Users praise the understandable and complete explanations and the good illustrations.Fashion magazines, websites and blogs.
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The Dressmaker's Handbook of Couture Sewing Techniques: Essential Step-by-Step Techniques for Professional Results|Lynda |Maynard|9781596682474|26.99|Interwave|12/2010&
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High fashion is the driving force behind the entire fashion and garment industry. This book introduces in its patternmaking techniques.
Introduction
1) Style, fabric, fashion
2) Pleats-drapes and frills
3) Ruches, flounces and jabot