Full 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 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 to make this the ultimate practical guide to sustainable fashion design.
Contents
Preface
1. Zero Waste Fashion Design from History to Now
Zero Waste over Time
Modern Zero Waste Fashion Design
Interview with Lela Jacobs
Zero Waste Fashion Design in Research
Interview with Maja Stabel
Short Cuts
2. Pattern Cutting as a Fashion Design Tool
Fashion Design and Pattern Cutting
Creative Pattern Cutting
Interview with Winifred Aldrich
Interview with Rickard Lindqvist
Creative Pattern Cutters From Around the World
Patterns in Design Ideation
Short Cuts
3. Zero Waste Fashion Design: The Basics
Criteria for Zero Waste Fashion Design
The Design Ideation Toolbox
Zero Waste Design Methods
Square Cut Garments
Tailored Garments
Draped Garments
Hybrid Practices
Zero Waste Design Systems
Adapting an Existing Design for Zero Waste
Risky Design Practice
Designing with the Fabric Width
Short Cuts
4. Zero Waste Fashion Design and CAD
Marker Making As Design Activity
Interview with Julia Banks (Formerly Lumsden)
Transforming Zero Waste Design Practice
Digital Design Process before 3D Tools
The Usefulness of 3D Software for Zero Waste Fashion Design Practice
Digital 3D Design Workflow for Zero Waste Design Practice.
The Future of Zero Waste Design in a Time of Automation
Digital 2D/3D Design
Note about the Differences between Tools
Digital Tools in Fashion Design Education
Case Study: Zero Waste Workshops
Digital Tools in the Fashion Industry
Case Study: High Price Outdoor Brand: Developing a Digital Prototype of Low Waste Design Using an Existing 2D Pattern
Grading and CAD
Combining Digital Technologies
Digital Tools in Fashion Research
Case Study: Zero + One: Developing a Digitized Analogue Drape Design
Case Study: Using 3D Software to Develop Zero Waste Whole Garment Weaving
Design Workflows
Zero Waste Tutorial for 3D Digital Tools
Making a Make/Use Coat in 3D Software
Things to Consider
Interview With Mylène L'Orguilloux - Milan AV-JC
Short Cuts
5. Manufacturing Zero-Waste Garments
Fashion Design and Fashion Manufacturing
Interview with Mary Beth McDermott
Sizing Zero Waste Garments
Pathway 1: One-Size-Fits-Most
Pathway 2: Conventional Grading
Pathway 3: Designing Each Size
Pathway 4: Mixing Multiple Sizes in a Marker
Pathway 5: Using a Different Fabric Width for Each Size
Pathway 6: A Hybrid Method
Fabric in Manufacturing Zero Waste Garments
Cutting Fabric
Fabric Selvages
Fabric Flaws
Short Cuts
6. Zero Waste Fashion Design: Getting Started
On Inspiration
Interview with Kia Koski
Documenting and Reflecting On Design
On Sharing
Conversation with Yeohlee Teng
Zero Waste Fashion Design in Transitions
Glossary
References
Index
Acknowledgements
Credits
