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Fashion Thinking: Creative Approaches to the Design Process
Book · February 2013
DOI: 10.5040/9781350082779
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Fashion Thinking First Edition, Ava 2013
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/fashion-thinking-9782940411719/
About Fashion Thinking
The thinking behind a fashion collection is what sets one designer apart from another. Learning to push ideas
forward, to develop concepts and to challenge the status quo is what gives us some of fashion's greatest innovations.
Yet students often struggle to develop their own style and approach to design. While the design process is
fundamental to the way all fashion designers work, there is no right or wrong method: each emerging designer must
find their own authentic process.
By following nine award-winning student designers through their thought processes in response to a brief, Fashion
Thinking establishes key approaches to design and encourages this process of discovery. Each student project
represents a diverse range of strategies at each stage of the design cycle. By following each throughout their various
stages of development, these examples offer a unique and inspiring insight into the thinking behind a final collection.
Supported by beautiful imagery and illuminating perspectives from professionals throughout the fashion
industry, Fashion Thinking is a book that no aspiring fashion designer should be without!
Table of contents
Context
The importance of ideas
Establishing frameworks
Challenging the status quo
Part I: Idea
Process
Practice: 'Hope for the Future' by Janelle Abbot
Practice: 'Virtual Appropriation' by Melitta Baumeister
Practice: 'Neurovision' by Jovana Mirabile
Practice: 'Knitting and Pleating' by Jie Li
Practice: 'Growth and Decay' by Andrea Tsao
Practice: 'Trompe l'oeil' by Sarah Bro-Jørgensen
Practice: 'Light Painting' by Leah Mendelson
Practice: 'Tensegrity' by Aura Taylor
Practice: 'Techno Naturology' by Elaine Ng Yan Ling
Perspective: Kyle Famer
Perspective: Siki Im
Point of View: Barbara Franchin
Part II: Concept
Process
Practice: 'Hope for the Future' by Janelle Abbot
Practice: 'Virtual Appropriation' by Melitta Baumeister
Practice: 'Neurovision' by Jovana Mirabile
Practice: 'Knitting and Pleating' by Jie Li
Practice: 'Growth and Decay' by Andrea Tsao
Practice: 'Trompe l'oeil' by Sarah Bro-Jørgensen
Practice: 'Light Painting' by Leah Mendelson
Practice: 'Tensegrity' by Aura Taylor
Practice: 'Techno Naturology' by Elaine Ng Yan Ling
Perspective: Timo Rissanen
Perspective: Maria Cornejo
Point of View: Mickey Boardman
Part III: Design
Process
Practice: 'Hope for the Future' by Janelle Abbot
Practice: 'Virtual Appropriation' by Melitta Baumeister
Practice: 'Neurovision' by Jovana Mirabile
Practice: 'Knitting and Pleating' by Jie Li
Practice: 'Growth and Decay' by Andrea Tsao
Practice: 'Trompe l'oeil' by Sarah Bro-Jørgensen
Practice: 'Light Painting' by Leah Mendelson
Practice: 'Tensegrity' by Aura Taylor
Practice: 'Techno Naturology' by Elaine Ng Yan Ling
Perspective: Frances Corner
Perspective: threeASFOUR
Point of View: Colleen Sherin
Reviews
“Strong, valuable resource. Beautiful pages, eye-catching and inspirational. Will push students ideas generating
conceptual thinking.” – Jayne Littlehales, Stafford College, UK,
“The emphasis on in-depth inquiry and an individual approach will inspire students to further explore their own
emerging design thinking and methods to achieve a confident end result.” – Krystyna Kolowska, Nottingham Trent
University, UK,
“This is a really valuable book for anyone teaching students to develop design conceptually. It uses plenty of visual
prompts and does a really good job of explaining the complex processes involved in fashion design development to
students.” – Kathryn Brownbridge, Manchester MET University, UK,
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