Zero Waste Fashion Design

Name: Zero Waste Fashion Design
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781350116962
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By Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan

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Zero Waste Fashion Design by Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan explores innovative techniques in fashion design aimed at reducing waste in garment production. The book delves into sustainable practices, showcasing strategies and patterns that minimise fabric waste, while also offering insights into the environmental impact of traditional fashion methods. It is an essential resource for designers committed to eco-friendly practices in the fashion industry.
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You might enjoy this book if you're passionate about sustainable fashion and innovative design. It provides a comprehensive look at creating stylish clothes while minimising fabric waste, making it ideal for eco-conscious individuals and aspiring fashion designers.

"Combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach"--

Updated edition of the essential practical guide to sustainable pattern cutting and design.

Description

Zero Waste Fashion Design combines practical examples, flat patterns, and more than 20 exercises to help you incorporate this sustainable technique into your portfolio. There are also beautifully illustrated interviews with innovative designers, including Richard Lindgvist, Mary Beth Bentaha, and Daniel Desanto to show how sustainable practice continues to evolve within the industry.

Industry pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, offer flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting-edge fashion designs. This updated edition includes new content on integrating 3D design into a zero waste process, additional coverage of the historical context of zero waste around the world, and expands on the related technique of subtraction cutting, making this the ultimate practical guide to sustainable fashion design.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781350116962

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 November 2023

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts

Edition: 2nd edition

Illustration: 200 colour illus

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 12.0mm

Width: 210.0mm

Height: 268.0mm

Weight: 841g

Pages: 244

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Arts & Culture Business & Entrepreneurship Holly McQuillan Non-Fiction Timo Rissanen

About the Author

Timo Rissanen is Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is a fashion and textiles researcher with an interest in the interconnection between sustainability and social justice as they relate to the contemporary fashion industry.

Holly McQuillan is a doctoral student at the University of Borås, Sweden. Her research articulates zero waste fashion design through exhibition and writing, and focuses on broad issues of sustainability and their links with risky design practice.