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Fashion Thinking Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons School of Design, USA)

Fashion Thinking By Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons School of Design, USA)

Fashion Thinking by Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons School of Design, USA)


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Summary

Students often struggle to develop their own style and approach to design. This book establishes key approaches to design and enables this process of discovery.

Fashion Thinking Summary

Fashion Thinking: Creative Approaches to the Design Process by Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons School of Design, USA)

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!

Fashion Thinking 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

About Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons School of Design, USA)

Having studied at the prestigious Parsons the New School for Design in New York City, Fiona Dieffenbacher started out working for Donna Karan and was mentored by both Michael Kors and Anna Sui. She later opened her own boutique, and her collections retailed across the US and Japan. Fiona is now Program Director of the BFA Fashion Design course at Parsons.

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-Jorgensen 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-Jorgensen Practice: 'Light Painting' by Leah Mendelson Practice: 'Tensegrity' by Aura Taylor Practice: 'Techno Naturology' by Elaine Ng Ya 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-Jorgensen 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

Additional information

GOR006593444
9782940411719
2940411719
Fashion Thinking: Creative Approaches to the Design Process by Fiona Dieffenbacher (Parsons School of Design, USA)
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20130107
224
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