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by Claudia Ausonia Palazio (Author), Mario Boselli (Foreword by)
Fashion Sketching aims to help emerging designers and fashion professionals cut down the time required to produce a collection. It offers every type of silhouette and pose for women, men, and children, so that designers are able to produce sketches that are faithful to the human figure, even if stylized.
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Fashion is a distinctive feature of the evolution of human beings and culture. Its extraordinary development through different civilizations and historical periods is generating tremendous interest today, not only within the fashion world and the academic community, but also among the general public on a massive scale, through traditional media and digital platforms. From the first cultural expressions to the latest trends, this book analyses the importance and meaning of this intriguing facet of human behaviour. Illustrated with a rich array of fact sheets, photographs and illustrations, Fashion: The Ultimate History of Costume is an essential guide to understanding this phenomenon. Its powerful visual elements, missing from many books, contribute to illuminating the diverse aspects of the fashion universe.
Through the book the reader will discover the beauty and mystery that imbues the world of fashion and the roles it has played in society: ranging from a merely practical function to its freest and most transgressing expressions, fashion reflects the social and cultural reality of each moment and is a unique example of the infinite creative capacity of human beings.
Author Biography
Claudia Ausonia Palazio attended the 1st Art Academy in Rome and then obtained a two-year degree from the IED in fashion (1988-1989). She subsequently began working as an assistant costume designer for Bonizza Giordiani Aragno. In the meantime, she was attending the Accademia di Alta Moda e Arte del costume Koefia (1991-1994). At the end of her coursework, she was asked to join Koefia's staff. She has been working as a fashion design lecturer since 1996.
