Zero Waste Fashion Design [Paperback]

Zero Waste Fashion Designcombines practical examples, flat patterns and more than 20 exercises to help you incorporate this sustainable technique into your portfolio. There are also beautifully illustrated interviews with innovative designers, including Richard Lindgvist, Mary Beth Bentaha and Daniel Desanto to show how sustainable practice continues to evolve within industry.

Industry pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, offer flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting-edge fashion designs. This updated edition includes new content on integrating 3D design into a zero waste process, additional coverage of the historical context of zero waste around the world, and expands on the related technique of subtraction cutting to make this the ultimate practical guide to sustainable fashion design.

Timo Rissanenis Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is a fashion and textiles researcher with an interest in the interconnection between sustainability and social justice as they relate to the contemporary fashion industry.

Holly McQuillanis a doctoral student at the University of Bor?s, Sweden. Her research articulates zero waste fashion design through exhibition and writing, and focuses on broad issues of sustainability and their links with risky design practice.

Preface

1. Zero Waste Fashion Design from History to Now
Zero Waste over Time
Modern Zero Waste Fashion Design
Interview with Lela Jacobs
Zero Waste Fashion Design in Research
Interview with Maja Stabel
Short Cuts

2. Pattern Cutting as a Fashion Design Tool
Fashion Design and Pattern Cutting
Creative Pattern Cutting
Interview with Winifred Aldrich
Interview with Rickard Lindqvist
Creative Pattern Cutters From Around the World
Patterns in Design Ideation
Short Cuts

3. Zero Waste Fashion Design: Tl3²