Zero Waste Fashion Design

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Zero Waste Fashion Design combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach. Written by two industry leading pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, the book offers flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting edge fashion designs. Sample flat patterns and more than 20 exercises will reinforce your understanding of the zero waste fashion design process. Beautifully illustrated interviews with high-profile, innovative designers, including Winifred Aldrich, Rickard Lindqvist and Yeohlee Teng, show the stunning garments produced by zero waste fashion design. Featured topics include: The criteria for zero waste fashion design Manufacturing zero waste garments Adapting existing designs for zero waste Zero waste designing with digital technologies

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A comprehensive, illustrated introduction to zero waste fashion design by the foremost pioneers of research on this subject

Author description

Timo Rissanen is the Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons School of Design, The New School, in New York. Research on sustainability in fashion is inseparable from his design practice. Timo's PhD focused on zero waste fashion design. Holly McQuillan is Senior Lecturer in Design at the College of Creative Arts at Massey University, New Zealand. Her research centres in the field of zero waste fashion design practice-led research. 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.

Table of contents

Table of content Introduction 1. Zero--waste from history to now Zero waste across cultures and eras Interview with Alexandra Palmer, Senior Curator, Royal Ontario Museum (Canada) Modern zero waste fashion design Interview with Zandra Rhodes, fashion designer (London, UK) Interview with Maja Stabel, fashion designer (Norway) 2. Pattern cutting as a fashion design tool Creative pattern cutting Interview with Winifred Aldrich, fashion author (UK) Patterns in design ideation Interview with Julian Roberts, fashion designer (UK) Interview with Shingo Sato, fashion designer (Japan/Italy) 3. Zero waste fashion design: the basics Criteria for zero waste fashion design The design ideation toolbox Interview with Skaidra Matas, fashion designer (US) Risky design practice Designing with the fabric width 4. Zero waste fashion design and CAD Marker---making as design activity Interview with Julia Lumsden, fashion designer (New Zealand) New opportunities for CAD Combining digital technologies 5. Manufacturing zero---waste garments Fashion design and fashion manufacture Grading zero waste garments Fabric in manufacturing zero waste garments Interview with Tara St James, fashion designer (US) 6 Your process: getting started A few words on inspiration Interview with Kia Koski, fashion design scholar (Finland) Documenting and reflecting on design Interview with Materialbyproduct, fashion brand (Australia) A few words on sharing Interview with Yeohlee Teng, Malaysian-born, New York-based fashion designer (US) Glossary Index Acknowledgements