Fashion Design Course: Principles, Practice, and Techniques: The Practical Guide for Aspiring Fashion Designers

by Steven Faerm

Just as people change, so too does fashion. That's why it's so important to recognize newer teaching methods that will help you keep up with fashion trends and the ever-changing world of style. This latest edition of Fashion Design Course helps aspiring fashion designers learn about:
How the digital age impacts education and the design process from research right through to the finished product
Customer Profiles: demographics, psychographics, the role of advertising, and more
Creating a unique vision with help from ethnographic research, design considerations, iconic films and their impact on fashion design, and developing a fabric story
Cultivating your design collection through process and investigation while using Mood Boards, Garment Construction, and more
Producing your own collections with individual exercises based on frequently used concepts for building collections including Shipping Reports, Ethnic Backgrounds, 3D/2D, Concept to Runway, Shifts in Fashion, Accessories, and more
Strategies and tips that will help you transition from coursework to a career in fashion including tips on resumes, interviewing, portfolio presentation, and more
This updated book reflects the latest information in fashion design and development and is an ideal introduction for students, dressmakers, and anyone interested in the creative side of the fashion industry. Discover the new talent, new avenues of inspiration, and new outcomes that are now possible with a degree in fashion design.

Genres: Fashion, Fashion Design, Nonfiction, Sewing, Design, Art, Reference

160 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 2010

Reviews

[Lauren G · Rating 2 out of 5]

I found this book a little dry with a few good ideas dotted throughout. For the most part I think there should have been less photos/drawings and those left in should be bigger. A lot of the pictures were just too small to study.

A lot of the sections in chapters weren't helpful due to space (they could have been entire books themselves) and I wish more things had been said about certain subjects. One such section would be Unit 3 Designers. There just isn't enough room, the small blurbs of text weren't terribly informative or interesting, and there were no photos of the designer's work which would have been a lot better in my opinion.

Unit 18 was one of my favorites. It's a several page layout of drawn details such as cuff types, collars, dress dart placements, coat details, skirt silhouettes, et cetera. One of my projects is to look around current fashion an pinpoint how modern designers have utilized these details in different ways.

There are also a couple assignments at the end I will also take advantage of.

In general, I think it's a good overview for someone considering going into Fashion Design to the breadth of what it entails. I don't think it's the best book you can pick up. I got it from the library, and I will not be buying it for myself.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great book. Using to help improve my fashion knowledge ready for Fashion College!

[Dipen Patel · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Clurtle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Overall beautiful compendium of works. Gorgeous and high quality prints, painstaking compilations of ever physical process element in designing new fashion outfits. The book just suffers from an overall lack of coherence, just as a fashion show needs to start light and end on a bang, so too did the book need a sort of flow through the pages. There was an initial outline, but I felt we jumped back and forth throughout the design process, and not enough exposition goes into the nitty gritty.

I understand this book is meant as an overall view of fashion and perhaps just a reference. For that reason, I question such detailed sections on fabrics, all the brands and pattern / stitching types. Those seem like great follow up books that anyone should have on hand that’s taking fashion seriously. It felt messy and frankly draining to move from the concepts to literally comparing fabrics and trying to assume how might all 50+ fabrics I’m seeing for the first time frame a dress on the next page.

I just would have wished for the author to give the very high level view of a fashion show and what’s required to understand what goes into making it, then leave me with some references to go check out. It’s a beautiful book, but it does too much for me at least. I consider myself fairly well versed in fashion trends and patterns, but even I couldn’t keep up at times. I frankly have a lot of doubt that anyone just starting out could make much sense of this.

This seems an overall harsh critique of an amazing book, but it’s simply because I care so much about teaching and fashion. I think i’ll love the book once I’m further into the fashion design practice, but by then, the book shouldn’t be targeting me as it’s audience. It’s a really high quality execution, but the cohesion is the sticking point for me. Really happy this was made!

Read what I assume was a very recent edition of this book as it mentions House of Gucci. Interestingly no mention of Covid or designing clothes considering supply chain issues, but that’s probably one of the most major points of discussion missing from the course.

[Goldenrod · Rating 2 out of 5]

Unfortunately, unit 18 (garment construction) was the only one I could visually distinguish. The rest was too small and closely packed. Hopefully there will be a revised edition printed larger or with a better layout, because the information looked good.

[Sophia · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent primer that tries to pack an entire industry into 144 pages. The book feels shallow/too brief given its breadth, but offers a decent compass for further direction.

[Diana Lea · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good book

[Harper Lee · Rating 3 out of 5]

是给初学者的，建议已学很久的时尚爱好者/学生不用读。内容中的时尚圈里经验丰富人物Q&A, 个一些构图插画，只有这些值得看。

[Corporeal Concerns · Rating 4 out of 5]

saves you a lot of googling

[Zefyr · Rating 3 out of 5]

It's a brief (very brief) overview that is trying to be too many things to really fit into under 150 pages. Maybe if it was 150 pages of only text. The pictures are sometimes relevant samples of what the text was describing but I often found myself puzzling what was in the pictures that the text was trying to get at, and even more often I felt like things that should have had pictures didn't, so it often feels like they simply took the pictures they already had and hit them with a hammer till they fit somewhere in the book. The history would have done well with a six page essay racing through major designers instead of six pages of grid attempting to give a sampling of major designers, and this was a really good example of how the emphasis on magazine-ready layout detracted from the quality and quantity of content. The men's fashion samples are token (women as default is a pretty radical thing in other spaces, but here it's status quo and my main interest is men's fashion, bah) and what is there is largely dismal (really).

That all said, if you're looking for more in-depth info on fashion design without having to go to school for it, or for a textbook to accompany a more competent course, this isn't bad by any means. There's some really good exercises at the end that someone working in any creative medium could get some solid use out of, and I definitely came away with a deeper understanding of contextualizing fashion interpretation and development.

[Belinda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Soooo. To start, despite the reasonable price, I do not recommend the kindle version. Super hard to read and messy layout. It may look nice as a textbook, but not so much on my laptop monitor, and it doesn't open at all on an actual kindle. Bummer.

I didn't think it was very informative or educational. I appreciate all the charts and reference guides to cuts and fabrics and important designers. But the rest was rather obvious. "Use different things for inspiration and make sure it looks nice!" Mhmm. Thanks. Otherwise, it was much like all the other art textbooks out there. I think they share more fundamentals than they realize, and while reading felt like I was back in the 2-D design class I loathed in college.

Anywho. Not as great as I thought it would be. And it should probably be used in a classroom setting, but I'm hoping the projects/assignments at the end will be a revelation and bump up the review another star.

[Booked and Busy · Rating 3 out of 5]

As a person looking to enter the fashion world, this is a good start.

This book on Fashion design provides a great overview on the important aspects of design from initial learnings to portfolio development. It does not give an in-depth tour (only a 4 year degree could do that) but it's good to know the basic framework.

[Suleka · Rating 5 out of 5]

this book helps you be successful in life and to have a great career and a glamorous fashion designer . What i really liked about this book was it gives lot and lots of ideas that well make you a great fashion designer. they give all the tips you need. i love it!

[Michelle · Rating 2 out of 5]

Book was a bit on the boring side, but there were a few interesting bits. Such as: different types if materials and the assignments that have you looking at garments in a retail store for construction, fabrics etc.

[Carrie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very nice overview of the fashion design industry and specifics about what a fashion designer does to create a clothing collection. Wonderful book for anyone working in fashion.

[Viji]

:-))

[Jamie Jokane]

i want to read this book

[Susan Joseph]

good

[Amrutha Ammu]

To know about fashion designing

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its cool

[Odessey A. · Rating 5 out of 5]

awesome book perfect for aspiring fds

[Aastha Budhathoki]

good

[Raj Kumar]

good

[Nakesha · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very detailed book and gives you a lot of background information about fashion design plus it gives you resources to use when developing into the Fashion industry

[Sandra de Helen · Rating 2 out of 5]

Hardly a “course.” More of an overview. Touches and names all the aspects involved with being a fashion designer, but no actual coursework. Not a resource I will keep on hand.