Figure Drawing for Fashion Design, Vol. 1

As a consultant, illustrator and stylist for renowned fashion companies, Elisabetta Kuky Drudi has planned and organised international fashion collections and shows. She has collaborated as an illustrator, fashion and textile designer with firms such as Baldessarini, Fuzzi, Hugo Boss & Hugo Boss Sport, Jean Paul Gaultier (Femme, Homme and Soleil) and Joop. Currently she designs for various international fashion houses and collaborates as a technical knit designer with Emilio Pucci, Mary Katrantzou and MSGM. Tiziana Paci lives and works in Pesaro, Italy, teaching fashion design and painting. In her thirty years of experience, she has come up with original methods for design in general and for the improvement of drawing and painting techniques for fashion sketches and figures. All this material has been organised into a number of manuals which combine both educational and artistic aspects, and have been translated into many languages and used in schools in Italy and abroad.

The seminal guide to figure drawing for fashion design in a completely revised, updated and expanded two-volume edition.

Introduction. FIRST MODULE- . Canons of proportion and drawing the figure. Basic rules in drawing. Facial features. The nose. The ear. The mouth. The head. The torso. The upper limb. The hand. The lower limb. The feet. SECOND MODULE - . The Figure in Fashion. From the Greek canon to the fashion canon. The imagined figure. The fashion figurine. THIRD MODULE - Pleats. The pleating system in clothing. FOURTH MODULE - Drawing techniques for fashion design. Colour Theory. Textile Design. Outfit and mini capsules. Bibliography