READ THIS: Fashion Designers’ Sketchbooks, by Hywel Davies
Fashion Designers’ Sketchbooks, by Hywel Davies and published by Laurence King in November 2010 provides a revealing insight into the creative processes of contemporary fashion practitioners.
Sketchbooks are vehicles for research, exploration, and the resolution of ideas. In this new book Hywel Davies explores how designers design, how they initiate ideas, and the journey they then embark on to realize their goal. The book investigates when designers are most prolific and what materials they assemble to ease their often erratic and creative journey. For designers, sketchbooks are companions that capture and facilitate research, support design development, and communicate new fashion ideas.
As well as sketchbooks from designers such as Deryck Walker, John Galliano, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel, Margaret Howell, Matthew Williamson, PPQ, and Vivienne Westwood, Davies showcases photographs, mood boards, toiles and fabric swatches. Much of the material featured in the book has never before been seen. The book also includes interviews with many of the designers, discussing the roles their sketchbooks play in the evolution of their work.
Featured designers include:
Aitor Throup, Alice Temperley, Boudicca, Karl Lagerfeld for Chanel,
Dries Van Noten, Duckie Brown, E Tauz, Graeme Black, John
Galliano, Kenzo, PPQ, Richard Nicol, Tim Soar, Vivienne Westwood,
Yohji Yamamoto, and many others.
Celebrating the view that the creative process is as enlightening, dynamic, and stimulating as the final garments, Fashion Designers’ Sketchbooks is a unique glimpse into the minds and creative lives of contemporary fashion designers.
Hywel Davies is a fashion writer based in London. After studying Fashion Communication and Promotion at Central Saint Martins, Hywel worked for an international mix of magazines and newspapers. Previously the fashion editor at Sleazenation, he has also written for Arena, Vogue, ELLE, Wallpaper*, Nylon, Dazed & Confused, The Sunday Telegraph, The Independent, The Financial Times, The Observer, and SHOWstudio. Hywel is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion Communication and Promotion at Central Saint Martins, and the author of Modern Menswear,100 New Fashion Designers and British Fashion Designers, all published by Laurence King.
334 color illustrations
8 1⁄2 x 11 3⁄4 inch
208 pages
HARDCOVER
ISBN – 978 1 85669 683 8
$40
NOVEMBER 2010
and you cannot read this kind of book without thinking of our Mover and Shaker Bil Donovan! We rerun this from READ THIS because Bil's sketches our our FAVORITE:
Our most FAVORITE aspect of Dior, and believe me, Peachy Deegan could come up with many adored aspects of Dior, is their artist, Bil Donovan. Peachy met him before she even WAS Peachy and Bil expertly did her portrait and it hangs on her wall to this day. It is the best ever done of her. Now we know after reading his book Advanced Fashion Drawing that practice does really make perfect.
Today Movers and Shakers include Mayor Koch, and Peachy's even spoken to Mayor Bloomberg on our Whom You Know video section, and Anna Wintour, TWICE. They number over 200. But we love most whom we loved first, and Bil Donovan is #14:
It's important to note that he is not only a big hit with Peachy, but also he's got 23 comments so far on that post. We were dying for his book to come out!
Dior Beauty artist-in-residence here reveals how to create an illustration with a sense of fashion not just a knowledge of figure drawing. A series of demonstrations and exercises helps the advanced illustration student hone their skills and increase their level of draftsmanship, while establishing their own personal style.
In ten chapters, Bil makes the rules and in the tenth one breaks them. You will be truly enlightened by lines, forms, continuity in drawing and much more. Fashion is so much more than just opening your closet and choosing your outfit of the day; we are always interested in this depth of knowledge across disciplines and this book will also give you insight into fashion itself.
You'll learn so much: verticals, diagonals, the opposition of line...you may not even know what that is so you know you'll learn that! Depth of field is important and you know that if you've studied photography....
Even if you aren't interested in fashion drawing for yourself, this book makes for a fascinating read and it is a true celebration of a talent that you all need to know about. It also makes a fabulous gift for every fashionista in your life! Start on your Christmas shopping!
Whom You Know highly recommends Advanced Fashion Drawing by Bil Donovan!!!
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Advanced Fashion Drawing is a practical book showing
how to illustrate for the fashion and lifestyle market.
Renowned fashion illustrator Bil Donovan reveals how
to create an illustration with a sense of fashion, rather
than one that concentrates solely on the fashion figure.
A series of demonstrations and exercises helps the
advanced illustration student hone their skills and
increase their level of draftsmanship, while establishing
their own personal style.
Bil Donovan is a fashion illustrator who has worked
and lived in New York, Paris and Milan. He has
recently been appointed Dior Beauty’s first artist-in-
residence, and his work has appeared editorially in
various publications and promotional advertorial
campaigns throughout the world. He teaches at the
Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.
(September 13, 2010; 192 pp; $35 hardcover)
