Zero Waste Fashion Design combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach.Written by two industry leading pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, the book offers flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting edge fashion designs.Sample flat patterns and more than 20 exercises will reinforce your understanding of the zero waste fashion design process. Beautifully illustrated interviews with high-profile, innovative designers, including Winifred Aldrich, Rickard Lindqvist and Yeohlee Teng, show the stunning garments produced by zero waste fashion design.Featured topics include: The criteria for zero waste fashion design Manufacturing zero waste garments Adapting existing designs for zero waste Zero waste designing with digital technologies

Written by two of the leading protagonists in the field ... [This] is a well-illustrated, comprehensive and practical volume.

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A comprehensive, illustrated introduction to zero waste fashion design by the foremost pioneers of research on this subject

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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. Dr Holly McQuillan is Assistant Professor in Multimorphic Textile Systems at Delft University of Technology, where her current research explores the design and development of fibre-yarn-textile-form systems as a means for transforming how we design, manufacture, use, and recover textile-based forms. Oriented through a holistic lens, her research advocates for a new understanding of the relationship between designer and system, material, and form to conceptualise and prototype alternative futures.

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Zero Waste Fashion Design combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach. Written by two industry leading pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, the book offers flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting edge fashion designs. Sample flat patterns and more than 20 exercises will reinforce your understanding of the zero waste fashion design process. Beautifully illustrated interviews with high-profile, innovative designers, including Winifred Aldrich, Rickard Lindqvist and Yeohlee Teng, show the stunning garments produced by zero waste fashion design. Featured topics include: The criteria for zero waste fashion design Manufacturing zero waste garments Adapting existing designs for zero waste Zero waste designing with digital technologies

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Table of content
Preface

1. Zero waste fashion design from history to now
   Textile waste
   Zero waste over time
   Modern zero waste fashion design
   Interview with Maja Stabel, fashion designer (Norway)
   Short cuts

2. Pattern cutting as a fashion design tool
   Fashion design and pattern cutting
   Creative pattern cutting
   Interview with Winifred Aldrich, fashion author (UK)
   Interview with Rickard Lindqvist, fashion designer (Sweden)
   Creative pattern cutters from around the world
   Patterns in design ideation
   Short cuts

3. Zero waste fashion design: the basics
   Criteria for zero waste fashion design
   The design ideation toolbox
   Zero waste blocks
   Trapeze sleeveless tunic by Holly McQuillan, fashion designer and lecturer (New Zealand)
   Endurance skirt by Timo Rissanen, Finland-born, Australia based fashion designer and lecturer (Australia)
   Tailored jacket by Holly McQuillan
   Pattern set ups by Holly McQuillan
   Adapting an existing design for zero waste
   Risky design practice
   Designing with the fabric width
   Short cuts

4. Zero waste fashion design and CAD
   Marker making as design activity
   Advantages of digital design for zero waste fashion
   Zero waste tutorials through CAD
   Grading and CAD
   Combining digital technologies
   Zero waste and digital textile design
   Interview with Julia Lumsden, fashion designer (New Zealand)
   Short cuts

5. Manufacturing zero-­-waste garments
   Fashion design and fashion manufacturing
   Interview with Lela Jacobs, fashion designer (New Zealand)
   Sizing zero waste garments
   Fabric in manufacturing zero waste garments
   Tara St James of Study NY
   Short cuts

   6 Zero waste fashion design: getting started
   On inspiration
   Interview with Kia Koski, fashion design scholar (Finland)
   Documenting and reflecting on design
   On sharing
   Conversation with Yeohlee Teng, Malaysian-born, New York-based fashion designer (US)
   Futures for zero waste fashion design
   Short cuts

   Glossary
   References
   Index
   Acknowledgements
   Credits