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Exploding Fashion<\/em><\/strong> examines the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in several key examples of 20th century fashion design. With over 200 illustrations, it ‘explodes’ designs by 6 game-changing fashion designers from the world’s leading fashion houses, and reverse engineers them in order to understand how they work. Written by a curator and professor at Central Saint Martins, London’s premier college of art and design, this is the first comprehensive exploration of how a traditional design process can enter into a dialogue with new concepts, illuminating haute couture and prêt-à-porter methods for a visually-driven digital age. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first comprehensive book to examine the impact of innovative pattern-cutting in key examples of 20th century design, written by a curator and professor at London’s Central Saint Martins.
CONTENTS
\nIntroduction
\nThe Rationale 8
\nThe Process 12
\nCentral Saint Martins Research Team Members 15
\nSECTION A: MAKE, UNMAKE, REMAKE
\nChapter 1: Methods and Making
\nFrom 2-D to 3-D to 3-D animation 20
\nChapter 2: Dress Summaries and Museum Statements
\nInternational Dress Collections: Museum Statements 68
\nVictoria and Albert Museum, London – Claire Wilcox
\nMusée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris 70
\nMyriam Teissier
\nTwentieth-Century Fashion Designs and their Designers:
\nFive Case Studies – Madeleine Vionnet 72
\nCostume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 86
\nAndrew Bolton
\nCharles James 88
\nPalais Galliera, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris 104
\nMiren Arzalluz & Véronique Belloir
\nCristóbal Balenciaga 106
\nMuseum at FIT (Fashion Institute of Technology), New York 120
\nValerie Steele
\nHalston 122
\nKyoto Costume Institute, Japan 138
\nRie Nii
\nComme des Garçons 140
\nThe Gusset: The Common Denominator 154
\nDress Patterns 158<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":23357,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5583],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23356","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-fashion-textiles","7":"author-by-author-alistair-oneill","8":"publisher-lannoo-publishers","10":"first","11":"instock","12":"shipping-taxable","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nExploding Fashion - ACC Art Books UK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Title: Exploding Fashion, Pages: 304 Pages, Publish Date: 20th Oct 2021, Author: Alistair O'Neill, ISBN: 9789401476058. 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