Fashion Design Course: Accessories

Design Practice and Processes for Creating Hats, Bags, Shoes and More

Essential reading for fashion design students

A detailed introduction to the growing market sector of accessory and footwear design

• Provides a comprehensive overview of the design process for fashion accessories, examining in detail the creative and technical processes involved.

• Guides students through the fundamental principles of research, design and development, and explains the core techniques, and processes, specialist terminology and tools of the trade.

• Opens with a section on general fashion design principles and processes is followed with chapters dedicated to particular subjects – handbags, footwear, hats and small leather goods - with a concluding information section on courses, careers and trade fairs.

Contents List:

Introduction • The Creative Process • Bags • Footwear • Millinery • Small Leather Goods • Resources and Professional Practice

About the Author

Sue Saunders is the footwear Subject Leader and BA Course Director for Cordwainers at the London College of Fashion and the specialist tutor for MA footwear at the Royal College of Art. In 2008 she was made a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers in recognition of her contribution in the footwear business. Jane Schaffer has worked in the accessories industry for 26 years. She now teaches fulltime at the London College of Fashion.

Jane Schaffer has worked in the accessories industry for 26 years. She now teaches fulltime at the London College of Fashion.