My Top Five: Books for a Fashion Design Student
As a 2nd year Fashion Design Student, I thought that I would give you five books that would be helpful to any fashion design student to own. I have three of them myself, and loaned the other two out of libraries many of times. They all have different purposes and are great for fashion design beginners to post-grads.
This book is great for Pattern Cutting. I have pattern cutting lessons on my course, but this book helps me to feel confident enough to continue my work, outside of studio time. I really like how clear and easy to follow it is, and how I can use what I have been taught in lessons plus this book, to further my studies.
Book Two : A Guide to Fashion Sewing by Connie Amaden-Crawford
This book is great for beginners and professionals. It helps you to work out how to sew a garment together, what fabrics work, what lining to choose etc. It works hand-in-hand with the previous book, and I try to carry both books with me to uni for my lessons and for personal studio sessions.
This book is great for beginners and professionals. It helps you to work out how to sew a garment together, what fabrics work, what lining to choose etc. It works hand-in-hand with the previous book, and I try to carry both books with me to uni for my lessons and for personal studio sessions.
Book Three : Fashion Designer's Handbook for Adobe Illustrator by Marianne Centner/Frances Vereker
Being able to use Illustrator and design using CAD (computer-aided-design), is a very useful skill to have in the fashion industry. This book contains step-by-step task/tutorials and will also help you to combine photoshop with illustrator, amongst other things. It's a perfect book for CAD beginners and for people who just need a refresher on their CAD skills.
Being able to use Illustrator and design using CAD (computer-aided-design), is a very useful skill to have in the fashion industry. This book contains step-by-step task/tutorials and will also help you to combine photoshop with illustrator, amongst other things. It's a perfect book for CAD beginners and for people who just need a refresher on their CAD skills.
Book Four : The Fashion Design Directory- An A-Z of the Worlds Most Influential Designers and Labels by Jonathan Saunders/Marnie Fogg
Research and finding inspiration from current/famous designers and fashion history, is always important for any fashion design project. This book is perfect for that. It is split into sections and is a delight to read, as it is written with such enthusiasm for fashion. A great reference guide.
Research and finding inspiration from current/famous designers and fashion history, is always important for any fashion design project. This book is perfect for that. It is split into sections and is a delight to read, as it is written with such enthusiasm for fashion. A great reference guide.
Book Five : Free Cutting by Julian Roberts (Free download)
Now, this isn't a physical book, unless you print it off yourself and bind it. If you sometimes find patterncutting restrictive and want to try something a bit different, then download this book. Julian Roberts way of patterncutting is so unpredicatable but can create stunning garments. I really enjoyed testing out his theory of patterncutting/draping and I would suggest that any fashion designer/student/enthusiast should try it out.
And those are my suggestions!
There are tons of other books that I would recommend, but this post would be extremely long if I named them all. I hope that this has helped some of you.
If anyone has any other book suggestions for a fashion design student, then leave them in the comments below. Also, if you guys would like to read more about my course/see some of my work, let me know and I will write a post about it.
Shannon
Now, this isn't a physical book, unless you print it off yourself and bind it. If you sometimes find patterncutting restrictive and want to try something a bit different, then download this book. Julian Roberts way of patterncutting is so unpredicatable but can create stunning garments. I really enjoyed testing out his theory of patterncutting/draping and I would suggest that any fashion designer/student/enthusiast should try it out.
And those are my suggestions!
There are tons of other books that I would recommend, but this post would be extremely long if I named them all. I hope that this has helped some of you.
If anyone has any other book suggestions for a fashion design student, then leave them in the comments below. Also, if you guys would like to read more about my course/see some of my work, let me know and I will write a post about it.
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