Fashion Artist: Drawing Techniques to Portfolio Presentation (Fashion Design Series)

fashion Artist

• ISBN13: 9780958239172
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"Fashion Artist: Second Edition" is now in colour with updated images. The book guides you through key fashion drawing and design techniques. Starting with basic figure templates, you quickly progress to produce visually exciting and creative illustrations, which are developed into dynamic presentations and your design portfolio - the passport to your career. Thorough text, self-explanatory drawings, photographs of the fashion model, together with artwork from international designers and illustrators, this book demonstrates the accepted design standards used in the fashion industry. The book also includes: Nine Heads Template; Drawing from Life; Flats/Working Drawings; Presentation Boards and Design Portfolio; Women, Men, Children, Costume Design, CAD. "Fashion Artist" is used internationally on fashion courses and as a self-learning programme. It is an invaluable textbook for fashion students, designers, illustrators and those with a passion for fashion!

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Extreme Beauty: The Body Transformed (Metropolitan Museum of Art Series)

Beauty Fashion

Over time and across cultures, extraordinary manipulations of the body have occurred in a continuing evolution of the concept of beauty. Fashion can be seen as the practice of some of the most extreme strategies to conform to shifting concepts of the physical ideal. Various zones of the body--the neck, the shoulders, the bust, the waist, the hips, and the feet--have been constricted, padded, truncated, or extended through subtle visual adjustments of proportion, less subtle prosthesis, and, often, deliberate physical deformation. The book shows that an undeniable if uncanny beauty abides in the bundled cylindricality of a geisha tottering on raised geta or clogs; the tea-tray supporting bustle of an 1880s French visiting dress; the double-door expanse of eighteenth-century panniered court gowns; the bound feet and caged nails of aristocratic Manchu women; the neck-extending chokers of the Masai, of Edwardian beauties, and of John Galliano?s designs for Dior; or the waist suppression of

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