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Fashion Bags and Accessories

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Fashion Bags and Accessories explores a wide range of fashion accessories, including bags, purses, wallets, clutches, cases, gloves, and belts. It covers creative design, product development, technological innovation, and materials development, balancing traditional craft-making techniques with contemporary digital manufacturing processes. The book examines classic materials like leather alongside new sustainable options and delves deeply into component design, branding, and logo creation.
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Format: Paperback / softback
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Primarily aimed at students studying fashion design, product design, or specialised accessories courses, this book also serves as a valuable reference for professionals looking to enter or evolve within the field of fashion accessories.

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Covering the latest innovations and trends, including new categories such as wearable technology and
natural-fibre leather alternatives, Fashion Bags and Accessories is the ultimate guide to this extremely profitable and dynamic area of fashion.

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Fashion Bags and Accessories explores fashion bags and related accessories, such as purses, wallets, clutches, cases, gloves, and belts, through various approaches to creative design, product development, technological innovation, materials development, component design (hardware), and branding. Readers will become familiar with key constructions and gain grounding in both traditional craft-making techniques and contemporary digital manufacturing processes.

Traditional accessory materials like leather are considered alongside new and emerging sustainable materials. Key elements of fashion bags and accessories like component design, signature branding, and logo design are also covered in depth.

Primarily aimed at students on fashion design, product design, or specialized accessories courses, the book will also be a go-to reference for professionals wishing to move into or evolve in this product area.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781529419900

Publisher: Quercus Publishing

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 February 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Laurence King Publishing

Illustration: 250

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 214.0mm

Height: 278.0mm

Weight: 760g

Pages: 200

About the Author

Darla-Jane Gilroy is Associate Dean of Knowledge Exchange and Reader in Fashion and Enterprise at Central Saint Martins, London.

She has extensive teaching experience having lectured at London College of Fashion, Ravensbourne, The University of Westminster, Southampton University, the University of East London, and the Royal College of Art. A key figure of the Blitz scene and a former fashion designer, Gilroy has played an influential role in British fashion since the 1980s and her design work has been exhibited at the V&A. She has maintained her professional practice through her trends consultancy, The Future Perfect.

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