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The Language of Fashion Design
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The Language of Fashion Design

by Laura Volpintesta
February 2014
Beginner content levelBeginner
240 pages
7h 2m
English
Rockport Publishers
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the language of fashion design
Deconstruction freed (and shocked)
the industry, the designer, and the consumer,
in contrast to the former dictates of what
could and could not be acceptable in dress
design. For example, hems no longer had to
be carefully folded, interfaced, lined, and in-
visibly hand stitched. They might be finished
inside out, or even cut and left raw! This
previously unthinkable finish has brought
previously impossibly light, thin, airy forms
into fashion over the past decades.
Deconstruction made fertile ground for
creating new forms, doing away with wasteful
costs and techniques, opening a space for
Deconstructing associations ...
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ISBN: 9781592538218