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Fashion futures /

By: Publication details: London ; New York : Merrell, 2012.Description: 239 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cmISBN:
  • 9781858945637
  • 1858945631
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Introduction -- Extreme style : Tailoring and technology ; Fashioning the machine ; Wearable intelligence ; The experience of fashion ; Fashion in the fifth dimension ; Sensory surfaces ; Shifting silhouettes ; Interviews with Iris Van Herpen, Studio XO -- Power and performance : Urban camouflage ; Bio-protection ; Future force ; Sportswear ; Superhuman style ; Interviews with Maria Janssen, Sarah Braddock Clarke -- Maverick materials : Biodynamic ; Conductive ; Elastic ; Protective ; Reactive ; Regenerative ; Interviews with Charles Spence, Marie O'Mahony -- Future fabrication : Creative collaboration ; Fashion from the inside out ; Novel manufacturing ; Virtual designs ; Fashion and imagination ; Clothing as shelter ; Interviews with Sabine Seymour, Skin Graph -- Radical retail : Shifting sites ; Resale and recycle ; Digital dressing ; Remote wardrobes ; Tagging ; Quick response codes -- Interview with Zaha Hadid -- Future horizons : The end of trends? ; Fashion foresight ; Consumer clout ; Techwear ; Brand bravado ; Made to mutate ; Rapid rejuvenation ; Trans-human tomorrows ; Interview with Anne Marie Commandeur.
Summary: Today fashion is moving forward at a faster pace than ever before, with advancing technologies and new materials reinventing clothing as we know it. Futuristic garment designs are often inspired by surprising sources: biological science, climate change, space suits, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. Fashion Futures offers a fascinating survey of these new directions, charting the transformational products, design processes, maverick materials, and groundbreaking practitioners that are revolutionizing fashion. Design expert Bradley Quinn also explores radical retail operations, fashion forecasting, and the relationship between fashion and other disciplines. Featuring inspirational interviews with international trend forecasters and designers, and packed with illustrations of extreme designs and prototypes, Fashion Futures is a thought-provoking overview of how fashion will look, perform and be manufactured and purchased in the twenty-first century.
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Book Book Whitecliffe Library General Shelves General TT 507 QUI (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 0009910
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 232-233) and index.

Introduction -- Extreme style : Tailoring and technology ; Fashioning the machine ; Wearable intelligence ; The experience of fashion ; Fashion in the fifth dimension ; Sensory surfaces ; Shifting silhouettes ; Interviews with Iris Van Herpen, Studio XO -- Power and performance : Urban camouflage ; Bio-protection ; Future force ; Sportswear ; Superhuman style ; Interviews with Maria Janssen, Sarah Braddock Clarke -- Maverick materials : Biodynamic ; Conductive ; Elastic ; Protective ; Reactive ; Regenerative ; Interviews with Charles Spence, Marie O'Mahony -- Future fabrication : Creative collaboration ; Fashion from the inside out ; Novel manufacturing ; Virtual designs ; Fashion and imagination ; Clothing as shelter ; Interviews with Sabine Seymour, Skin Graph -- Radical retail : Shifting sites ; Resale and recycle ; Digital dressing ; Remote wardrobes ; Tagging ; Quick response codes -- Interview with Zaha Hadid -- Future horizons : The end of trends? ; Fashion foresight ; Consumer clout ; Techwear ; Brand bravado ; Made to mutate ; Rapid rejuvenation ; Trans-human tomorrows ; Interview with Anne Marie Commandeur.

Today fashion is moving forward at a faster pace than ever before, with advancing technologies and new materials reinventing clothing as we know it. Futuristic garment designs are often inspired by surprising sources: biological science, climate change, space suits, artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and nanotechnology. Fashion Futures offers a fascinating survey of these new directions, charting the transformational products, design processes, maverick materials, and groundbreaking practitioners that are revolutionizing fashion. Design expert Bradley Quinn also explores radical retail operations, fashion forecasting, and the relationship between fashion and other disciplines. Featuring inspirational interviews with international trend forecasters and designers, and packed with illustrations of extreme designs and prototypes, Fashion Futures is a thought-provoking overview of how fashion will look, perform and be manufactured and purchased in the twenty-first century.

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