Fashion Thinking: Creative Approaches to the Design Process
Ebook
Overview
Fashion’s great innovations often spring from inspired designers developing unique concepts and challenging the status quo. But how do they do it? To find out, follow ten exceptional fashion design students as they respond to a brief, exploring their diverse strategies and the thinking behind their final collections.
This second edition of Fashion Thinking features six new interviews, with insight from the director of Open Style Lab, Grace Jun, and Yeohlee Teng, whose designs have earned a permanent place in the Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. There are also four new case studies, incorporating new technology including adaptive design for the visually impaired and the use of augmented reality.
Beautifully illustrated and structured to clearly demonstrate how to take ideas from concept to design, Fashion Thinking demystifies the creative thinking process to help you develop your own unique collection.
Fashion Thinking also has its own companion website to this book - with curated videos and websites relating to each designer. Visit: https://www.bloomsburyonlineresources.com/fashion-thinking-creative-approaches-to-the-design-process-2/home
An investigation into the creative design process, following a number of award-winning student fashion designers through the development of their final collections.
250 colour images show each collection in detail, from initial sketches and missteps, to construction and the final, fully styled collection.
Includes six new interviews, including from the director of Open Style Lab, Grace Jun, and Yeohlee Teng, whose designs have earned a permanent place in the Costume Collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Includes four new case studies, incorporating new technology including adaptive design for the visually impaired and the use of augmented reality.
A companion website with curated videos and websites related to each featured designer is available at: www.bloomsbury.com/cw/fashion-thinking
Foreword by Shelley Fox
CONTEXT
An introduction to process
Challenging the Status Quo
Establishing Systems
>The Design Cycle
>Linear versus Random
Idea Generation
Research Exploration
Design Translation
1: Hope for the Future by Janelle Abbott (Zero Waste)
Perspective: Fashion + Sustainability, Timo Rissanen
2: Virtual Appropriation by Melitta Baumeister
Perspective: Fashion + Architecture, Siki Im
3: My Wonderland by Leaf Xia
Perspective: The Collective | Fashion + Art, Gabi Asfour and Adi Gil of threeASFOUR
4: Knitting and Pleating by Jie Li
Perspective: Genderless Design + Socio-Political Awareness, Private Policy [Haoran Li & Siying Qu]
5: Via by Camila Chiriboga
Perspective: Universal Design | Open Style Lab, Grace Jun
6: Trompe l’oeil by Sara Bro-Jorgensen
Perspective: Zero Waste Design Ethos, Yeohlee Teng
7: Umbrella Ghosts by Tiffany Huang and Kailu Guan
Perspective: Education + Professional Development, Sara Kozlowski
8: Tensegrity by Aura Taylor
Perspective: Fashion Journalism, Humanitarianism + Body Positivity, Mickey Boardman
9: Techno Naturology by Elaine Ng Yan Ling
Perspective: Textiles | Graduate Studies, Preethi Gopinath
10: Excessivism By Ji Won Choi
Perspective: Design + Labor | Fashion Studies, Christina Moon
Further Resources
Glossary
Acknowledgements
- Title: Fashion Thinking: Creative Approaches to the Design Process
- Author: Fiona Dieffenbacher
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts
- Print Publication Date: 2020
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 232
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781350195974, 9781350082755, 1350082759, 1350195979
- Resource ID: LLS:9781350195974
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T12:10:48Z
Fiona Dieffenbacher is Assistant Professor of Fashion at Parsons School of Design, New York. Her research practice is located at the intersection of dress, embodiment and materiality, with a particular emphasis on the 'space in between' theory and practice.