Fashion Design Essentials

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ARTISTRY 67. Curated Experience It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a supermodel! The power of a fashion concept can be traced back ...

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ARTISTRY 68. Culture Filter Anyone who hears the word poncho has an immediate image in her mind of what it is. The poncho was us ...

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ARTISTRY 69. More Is More If a designer is able to synthesize a wide variety of elements into one garment, it has the poten­ tia ...

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ARTISTRY 70. Less Is More Ockham's razor is a principle that means "All things being equal, the simplest solution is usually the ...

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ARTISTRY 71. Meditation on a Dress Many spiritual and religious influences in fashion are rooted in ancient cultures and are oft ...

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ARTISTRY 72. Building on Basics Tried-and-true basics may feel like fallback items in fashion, but garments in this category exi ...

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ARTISTRY 73. Design of Dissent Rebels have always influenced fashion. By today's standards, the flapper look of the 1920s is cha ...

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ARTISTRY 74. Attitude Adjustment Clothes do make the man, or the woman, when they are part of the storytelling process on stage ...

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ARTISTRY 75. Myths and Archetypes According to American mythologist Joseph Campbell. exploring myths is about more than the ques ...

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ARTISTRY 76. Wit Can funny be fashionable? It is safe to assume that Jean-Charles de Castelbajac has a sense of humor. Making cl ...