Fashion 12, 13, 14

Advanced Creative Draping

Karolyn Kiisel

● Bestselling author Karolyn Kiisel shoes designers and students how to drape fashion-forward, conceptual designs that use elements of couture construction

● Follow-up to the bestselling Draping: The Complete

Course

● Includes different methods of draping to allow advanced students to find and develop their preferred style

● Includes interviews with designers explaining their craft, including ones from Chanel ateliers, Lemarie, and Lesage in Paris

Advanced Creative Draping teaches designers and students how to drape fashion-forward, conceptual designs that use elements of couture construction to elevate the work to the highest level of fashion.

Five methods of draping are explored as well as draping using embellishments or particular surface designs. The final chapter demonstrates how to create a high-quality heirloom garment.

Featuring specially commissioned step-by-step photography, the book includes tips from designers working with draping methods today. Essentially an advanced textbook for the serious fashion student, it also serves as a workroom reference book for professional fashion and costume designers.

AUTHOR Karolyn Kiisel is the best-selling author of Draping: The Complete Course. She teaches at The Theater Academy of Los Angeles City and previously taught in the Fashion Department at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles for 25 years. Her fashion designs have been sold internationally, and her costume work has appeared on screen and stage. INFO 978 1 91394 772 9

500+ illustrations

256 pages 8.5"x11" $75 • Flexibind

JANUARY 2022