Zero Waste Fashion Design

Rissanen, Timo

ISBN 10: 1350116963 / ISBN 13: 9781350116962

Published by BLOOMSBURY, 2023

Seller Inventory # 9781350116962

Synopsis:

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.

About the Authors: Timo Rissanen is Associate Professor at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia. He is a fashion and textiles researcher with an interest in the interconnection between sustainability and social justice as they relate to the contemporary fashion industry.

Holly McQuillan is a doctoral student at the University of Borås, Sweden. Her research centres on 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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Zero Waste Fashion Design
Publisher: BLOOMSBURY
Publication Date: 2023
Binding: Soft cover
Edition: 2nd Edition