FASHION THINKING: Creative Approaches to the Design Process by Fiona Dieffenbacher
Second Edition, Bloomsbury, 2020
The second edition of Fashion Thinking: Creative Approaches to the design process is in an easy to carry 8 x 10'“ format and offers dynamic updated content. Each chapter follows a design project through Idea > Research> Design phases sequentially, and includes new examples of collaborative and client- based approaches to design. New perspective interviews include key professionals from academia and the fashion industry speaking to a wide range of topics including: Genderless design, Body Positivity, Design & Labor, Humanitarianism, and Socio-Political Awareness.
SILHOUETTES OF THE SOUL
Meditations on Fashion, Religion and Subjectivity
Chapter 1 : The Future Body as Ultimate Dress by Fiona Dieffenbacher
What is the relationship between the soul, or inner life, and what we wear in the making of identity and belief? What bearing do religious and political belonging, respectability, and resistance have on the way in which we dress? Why have more traditional religious practices been so prescriptive about body adornment? Historically, fashionable dress and religion have been positioned as polar opposites. Silhouettes of the Soul brings them together, placing them in conversation with each other. By moving beyond traditional, social scientific, and historical analysis of religious attire and adornment the book presents a variety of disciplinary approaches from across regional, social, and religious locations.
Contentious and challenging, as well as academically rigorous, the book's diverse range of contributors - from fashion and religious studies scholars, to designers, activists, monastics, and journalists - explore the relationship between religion and fashion, extending the meanings and possibilities of both dress and spirituality. Combining interviews and personal stories with more traditional theoretical analysis, Silhouettes of the Soul offers new ways of looking at the relationship between religion, personal convictions, and self-expression - our sense of self and our sense of fashion.
Character of Fashion: Educator
FASHION THINKING: Creative Approaches to the Design Process by Fiona Dieffenbacher
First Edition, AVA 2013
Fashion Thinking establishes key approaches to design and enables this process of discovery. Ten student projects form the core of the book, representing a diverse range of strategies at each key stage of the design cycle. By following each throughout their various stages of development, these examples offer a unique and inspiring insight into the thinking behind a final collection and enables emerging fashion designers to discover their own working method in the process.