Fashion Patternmaking Techniques: Haute Couture: Volume 1

Fashion Patternmaking Techniques Haute Couture brings together all the elements that are at their most complex in haute couture and that a specialized patternmaker working in this area must understand and be proficient in, including techniques for creating adornments, draping on the model and painting on fabric. The handbook includes a section on contemporary techniques that presents the fundamentals of patternmaking with 3D CAD and virtual measurements. This is a comprehensive and essential handbook for those wishing to delve into an activity that is at once traditional and contemporary.

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High fashion unquestionably goes hand-in-hand with sartorial and stylistic perfection. A driving force behind the entire fashion and garment industry, it represents the search for new solutions concerning fabrics, style, or patterns. In this context, the patternmaker is an essential figure, bringing the stylist's ideas into reality. In our richly illustrated new volume of the Fashion Patternmaking series, the prolific author Antonio Donnanno, an offspring of a tailor family, patternmaking teacher, and director of a fashion school network, describes in detail the methods and techniques used in high-fashion patternmaking in an understandable and step-by-step way.

About the Author:

Antonio Donnanno began his career in his family's tailoring shop. After majoring in history and philosophy, he focused on teaching costume history and patternmaking techniques. In 1982, he founded the prestigious Euromode School Italia in Bergamo, which soon expanded abroad. He has written dozens of books on fashion and has his own consulting firm, which focuses on patternmaking and business.