Fashion textiles

This article contains outstanding textile and fashion design sketchbooks to inspire students working with fashion garments, personal accessories, wearable art costumes, fabrics or textiles.

Coco Chanel stated that “fashion is architecture: it is a matter of proportions” The styles featured here are architecturally-inspired designs. Whether it’s the framework of a dress or a bustier, each piece shows stunning angles and curves, allowing light and open space to complement the finished product.

The permanent museum collection at the Fashion Institute of Technology currently includes something like 50,000 garments and accessories, dating from the 18th century to the present– and they're still acquiring new pieces all the time. So just like the rest of us ladies, every now and again, they ne

After printing one of the mokume pieces with normal transparent binder, I left it to dry and then opened the pleats out flat. At regular intervals I then stitched sets of the pleats together and le…

Dagmar Binder (@textillabor) • Instagram photos and videos

Noir Kei Ninomiya SS 2016 @sqchoi

Graduate Collection | Mysite

Finally finished my City and Guilds Level 2 and was fortunate enough to get a distinction with my final project being my large coral reef pi...

Hi all, So, I managed to get some pictures of the tyvek floral sculpture that I made for my art coursework project. If you don't already know (which I didn't) tyvek is a non-woven material used in building walls and things, also in C.S.I suits. When heated it goes all crinkly and melts and holes. I used this to create flowers and leaves. I was inspired by Alexander McQueens flower dress, where he had used silk flowers and real flowers. I loved the colours and the shape, and I tried to…