Fashion Designers Sketchbooks

Fashion Designers' Sketchbooks explores many major names working in thefashion industry today. Photographs, sketches, mood boards, line-ups,toiles, fabric swatches and more all contribute to the creation of ideasfor fashion designs, and here they are brought together for the first timeto show how the final work is conceived and developed.Juxtaposing the garments on the catwalk and in lookbooks with the originalresearch material and with finished illustrations allows for a newperspective on the working methods of leading international designers andon the role of different media in the creation of their work, making thebook a fascinating resource for both students and designers.Numerous leading designers, including John Galliano, Dries Van Noten,Antonio Marras for Kenzo, Yohji Yamamoto and Vivienne Westwood, areinterviewed alongside their sketchbooks, discussing the roles they play inevolution of their work, and how they inform and encourage their creativeprocesses. The result is in an inspirational overview of cutting-edgedesign today.