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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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With fabric as the raw material of fashion and the
eyes and skin as interface receptors, surface plays
a dual role. Visual and tactile in nature, a surface
can seduce the touch, communicate quality, and
caress the wearer with its inside. Internal and
surface
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external surfaces give two sides to a fashion
story. Ideally, nothing is left wanting on either
plane. There is nothing worse than wear-
ing an itchy or scratchy, irritating or stifling
fabric next to the skin. Fabric selection is the
foundation of a design. Even tags, under-
wires
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ISBN: 9781592538218