Research Guides: Fashion Technology: Find Books

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apparel design

clothing construction

fabric analysis

fashion

fashion technology

pattern drafting

textile art

visual merchandising

Books in the Library

Textiles and Fashion
Call Number: TS1765 .U33 2008
Japan Fashion Now by Valerie Steele
Call Number: TT504.6.J3 S74 2010
Construction by Anette Fischer
Call Number: TT507 .F58 2009
Developing a Collection by Elinor Renfrew and Colin Renfrew
Call Number: TT507 .R437 2009
Fashion 101: A Crash Course in Clothing
Call Number: TT507 .S746 2008
Fashion Artist: Drawing Techniques to Portfolio Presentation
Call Number: TT509 .B87 2006 (Oversize)
Illustrating Fashion: Concept to Creation
Call Number: TT509 .S85 2011
Figure Poses for Fashion Illustrators
Call Number: TT509 .T34 2011
Patternmaking for Fashion Design by Helen Armstrong
Call Number: TT520 .A74 2010
Tailoring: Classic Guide to Sewing the Perfect Jacket
Call Number: TT535 .T37 20011

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Balenciaga
Call Number: TT505.B28 B35 2011 Oversize Collection
The Cristóbal Balenciaga Museoa in Getaria, Spain, holds the largest collection of Balenciaga's designs. This catalogue offers a selection of the most representative pieces of the Museum's collection, with hundreds of photographs and four essays wriiten by specialists on Balenciaga's life and work.
Fashion Entrepreneur: Starting Your Own Fashion Business
Call Number: TT497 .B87 2013
Presented as a step-by-step guide, packed with case studies and interviews, inspiring fashion illustrations, diagrams and imagery from established fashion entrepreneurs to enhance the understanding of the subject area.
Guide to Producing a Fashion Show
Call Number: TT502 .E83 2013
The definitive source of information for anyone interested in fashion show production - from an informal affair to a large, complex event. All aspects of fashion show production are covered including reasons to produce a show, planning, model selection, merchandise selection, staging and music, budgeting, show preparation, execution, and evaluation.
How to Set up and Run a Fashion Label by Toby Meadows
Call Number: HD9940.A2 M43 2012
No matter how talented you are as a designer, if you are going to run a successful fashion label you need to know about business from marketing and PR to manufacturing your collection, and where to find the money to finance it all. This is a guide to running your own business, whether it is within the clothing, accessories or footwear sectors.
Project Runway: The Show That Changed Fasion
Call Number: PN1992.77.P75 M45 2012
Looks at the first nine seasons of the popular reality show in which aspiring designers compete to win prizes and assistance in launching a fashion line.
Sewing for Cosplay and Costuming
Call Number: TT633 .C648 2017
Cosplayers rejoice! The Hero's Closet is the ultimate DIY guide to creating unique and fantastical homemade costumes This essential handbook offers detailed, step-by-step instructions that cover the basics of sewing costumes (which often require skills not found in standard sewing guides) to help even the most novice sewists create the costumes of their dreams.

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Becoming a Fashion Designer by Lisa Springsteel
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The complete guide to the fashion industry, featuring interviews with top designers who explain the intricacies of the world of fashion design.
British Fashion Design: Rag Trade or Image Industry? by Angela McRobbie
Call Number: E-BOOK
British Fashion Design explores the tensions between fashion as art form, and the demands of a ruthlessly commercial industry.
Fashion Design: Process, Innovation and Practice (2nd Edition)
Call Number: E-BOOK
Fashion Design sets out basic principles and exercises in order to make fashion design a logical process, providing a framework from which they can expand your skills steadily.
The Fashion Designer Survival Guide
Call Number: E-BOOK
Offers practical tips, strategies, and advice from both newcomers and industry veterans.
Fashion in Popular Culture: Literature, Media and Contemporary Studies
Call Number: E-BOOK
Combining fashion theory with approaches from literature, art, advertising, music, media studies, material studies, and sociology, contributors from across Europe, Australia, and the United States consider the function of fashion within popular culture.
The Language of Fashion Design: 26 Principles Every Fashion Designer Should Know by Laura Volpintesta
Call Number: E-BOOK
This visual reference includes an introductory, historical view of the elements, as well as an overview of how these elements can and have been used across multiple design disciplines.

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Honolulu Street Style
Call Number: GT617.H3 M67 2014 Hawaii Pacific Collection
Situated at the crossroads of different cultures, Honolulu has a style all of its own. This book captures this unique approach as it demonstrates how global trends are transformed by stylish Honolulu denizens to give them a unique, local look.

Dyeing Fabic

The Complete Guide to Natural Dyeing Fabric, Yarn, and Fiber
Call Number: TT854.3 .L35 2010
ISBN: 1596681810
The Surface Designer's Handbook: Dyeing, Printing, Painting, and Creating Resists on Fabric
Call Number: TT854.5 .B73 2006
ISBN: 193149990X

Reference Books

The Dictionary of Fashion History
Call Number: GT730 .C86 2010
Reference, 1st Floor
Who's Who in Fashion
Call Number: TT505.A1 S74 2010
Biography Reference, 1st Floor
50 Fashion Designers You Should Know
Call Number: TT505.A1 W47 2010
Biography Reference, 1st Floor

How about a fashion career?

The Fashion Careers Guidebook
Call Number: TT507 .Y38 2011
Pt. 1. Working in fashion
Pt. 2. Directory of careers. Fashion design ; Accessories design ; Textiles ; Production ; Costume design ; Retail ; Communication ; Education ; Backstage roles

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