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Reprint of the original 1921 edition. Cloth. Oversized Octavo. 598pp. Illustrated. 598pp. The standard reference work written in 1921 by Frits Lugt is a basic book for all collectors of drawings and engravings. One finds there the inventory of the marks of collectors and information on those and the history of their collections. This is an indispensable reference that includes a wealth of information on dealers, collectors and sales, with more than 3000 illustrations illustrating marks. This standard work identifies collector's marks and gives facts concerning, or description of, the collections. "Collector's" also includes museums and collecting institutions. Arntzen & Rainwater, Guide to the Literature of Art History C27. This is the only work listed in Arntzen and Rainwater for Collector's Marks.
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Fashion Sketchbook review.......2007-09-30
This book is great. It's excellent help for anyone interested in sketching fashion figures or going into fashion.
Bina Abling has published lots of books, but each edition of this Fashion Sketchbook keeps getting better and more refined.
the ONLY book you will ever need as a designer, this is the Bible of fashion illustration.......2007-05-21
This is The authority on illustrating for fashion. Abling's attention to detail and artistic ability make her a perfect tutor on the topic, and every explanation is clear--it's the sort of thing where you look at the example, and it clicks in your head, "Oh, Now I see!".
The book goes over Everything you need, but in case you want to know exactly what is inside, here is a quick summary:
Ch 1: Fashion Figure Proportions
Figures on grids broken down in several ways, extensive work on proportion. Abling divides figures into geometric shapes: foot, head, hips, chest, upper arm, thigh; she then puts them together, showing how they fit and relate to one anther. It then goes further and shows how different poses and types of movement affect the torso (upper and lower), as well as different types/shapes of figures, from the elongated fashion figure to petite and full. The chapter also features a figure map, interpretations of anatomy, different poses and artistic approaches, balance, and movement.
Ch 2: Basic Figure Forms
Drawing legs, arms, feet, shoes, hands, fingers, and foreshortening. There are so many helpful diagrams from multiple perspectives, numerous poses.
Ch 3: Model Drawing
Gesture drawing, exercises on isolated sections of the body, angles, and more; balance line, supporting leg (where the weight is distributed so the figure looks planted to the ground, not floating around or unevenly/awkwardly perched), arms.
Ch 4: Fashion Heads
Faces, different ethnicities, facial features, dissection of the head with a map on the placement of eyes, nose, lips, etc. The head in different positions, from different angles; techniques to maintain proportion and balance: diamond technique, working with angles and planes of the face, shading/highlights/shadows. Hair: styles, hairlines, period styles.
Ch 5: Drawing Men
Comparison to female figure, legs, arms, hands, hair, gesture, dressing the figure, suits, and details on how the fabric falls, where to put certain features like the cuff, armhole, etc. Proportions, classic menswear techniques, fashion croquis technique, vintage styles.
Ch 6: Drawing Children
Proportions by age, with many dissections and comparisons, tons of helpful illustrations and examples. Infants, toddlers, children, tweens; heads, facial expressions, hairstyles, arms, hands, legs, feet, vintage styles.
Ch 7: Garment and Garment Details
Necklines, collars, sleeves (different types, lengths, etc), skirts (folds, fall of fabric, gathering, flaring, volume, pleats), pants (folds, gathering, lengths, fit), blouses, blazers, jackets, coats, ruffles, smocking, shirring, cowls, fur, quilting, formal gowns, applying the concepts to garments.
Ch 8: Accessories
Jewelry and how they sit on the body, eyewear, hats (male, female), belts (types, fit), trims, notions, closures, handbags, shoes (different angles, heel heights, types).
Ch 9: Basic Rendering Techniques
Working with stripes and other fabric types/prints. Shading, highlighting, rendering with marker, fall fabrics, more fabric types: shiny fabrics, flat/matte, sheers, layers, velvet, satins, chiffon, etc. Working with all black fabrics.
Ch 10: Color Rendering
Chapter features color renderings to show skin tones, menswear with marker, children; using gouache, using watercolors, rendering hair in color.
Ch 11: Drawing Knits
Necklines, knit patterns, treatments/embellishments.
Ch 12: Designer Sketching and Fashion Illustration
Poses: I-pose, S-pose, X-pose, T-pose. Attitude, "look" and feel, style, emphasis.
Ch 13: Drawing Flats and Specs
Layout styles, freehand sketching, proportion, chart on measurements by size: Women, Men, Unisex, Belts, Hats, Socks. Gathering, buttons, closures, top stitching. Mixing croquis and flat drawings.
Ch 14: Layout
Combining multiple drawings, elements, or figures; groupings,
Appendix
More necklines, collars, sleeves, armholes, tops, dresses, skirts, pants, jackets, coats, sleepwear, underwear, design details, ties, hats, waistlines, pockets, handbags, shoes, collars, cuffs.
One of the neatest sections in the book is titled "problem spots" and features examples of the right and wrong way to do various details. Showing examples of how amateurs or beginners make mistakes and then showing the correct way works So well! Better than explanation, this simple and clear approach is crucial.
This book is filled with immensely helpful diagrams, exercises, and demonstrations. Every part of it is useful to students and designers, and because it is so comprehensive, this could be the single most important book in fashion illustration. If you could only have one book on the subject, get Fashion Sketchbook by Bina Abling.
Drawing the fashion way is fun!.......2006-11-12
This book was exactly what I needed for my fashion illustration class. I received it in perfect condition. I really like it!
Fashion sketching for all levels!.......2006-08-09
This sketchbook is very comprehensive and great for all levels of fashion sketching. It is a wonderful book if you are trying to conquer the croquis. I was an absolute beginner and this book has developed my skills greatly and the step by step lessons in the book are extremely helpful. This book is spiral-bound which makes a big difference when practicing, especially if you like to using tracing paper prior to your sketching attempts. Not all fashion drawing books are spiral-bound so make sure you take note, it makes a big difference when working on your art.
Excellent Book.......2006-03-09
This book is excellent for someone who struggles with drawing every aspect of a fashion illustration. This book shows you how to draw feet and hands in different positions along with different poses. This is an excellent book and great tool.
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Lagerfeld's Sketchbook: Karl Lagerfeld's Illustrated Fashion Journal of Anna Piaggi
Karl Lagerfeld
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In this trollsome novelty sketchbook, the Trollz BFFL will show you all they know about color, fashion, and design. Design your own clothes, redecorate your bedroom, and create the most trolltastic accessories for your locker, backpack, and notebooks! This book comes complete with four mini markers, five mini pencils, a pencil sharpener, a sparkly heart-shaped eraser, two glitter gel pens, a rolling stamper, a plastic stencil, and stickers in the amazing pack attached to the spiral spine.
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The SnapFashun Sketchbook covers garmet design, trend research, and CAD in a fun and simple way. Filled with helpful trade secrets and industry tips, the book discusses how to use the Snapfashun Illustration System to create trend-setting, practical designs. A new Part IV emphasizes trend analysis, research and digital skills, while an accompanying CD-ROM is filled with Adobe Illustrator documents and exercises. Throughout the book, users learn how to express their ideas using quick sketch techniques, “pictionary examples, and tracing templates and create innovative and inspiring designs.
Emphasizes the importance of research and how and where to look for trends. Discusses primary trends, secondary trends and what happens when these trends unite. Discusses the snap fashion design method, garmet construction, advanced drawing skills, trend research and digital skills. Includes trade secrets that have been collected over the author’s years of work and experience. Considers all body types when discussing basic garmet design, such as designs for short stature, full-figured etc.
Allows anyone, even those with little or no art background, to quickly master basic working fashion sketches (or croquis).
Customer Reviews:
Not self taught well enough!.......2006-07-22
What self-taught fashion illustrators/designers probably do not understand is that the fashion flat illustration is ESSENTIAL to the fashion industry! You can render the most beautiful fashion figures, but they won't tell manufacturers a damn thing about how to produce the actual garment - the fashion flat with all of the appropriate details (stitch lines, pocket and button placement, etc) is how we as designers communicate with the actual people producing the garment.
This book is a great tool for beginning designers! Learning to design with fashion flats will not only make you a better and more efficient designer, but also help you to communicate your ideas, and give you a better understanding of how garments are actually constructed.
Do not be swayed by those who believe that fashion is all about pretty drawings.
it's not the best, but i guess it works somewhat.......2002-06-20
i had to buy this book for a class in my fashion design program. i thought it was a huge ... when i bought it. it's an absorbitant amount of money for pages that look like they have been photocopied and put together cheaply with one of those flimsy plastic book binding things. i suppose that it was a bit helpful in understanding how to produce sketches for the industry. but, think i agree with the person who suggested the barbie sketching thing. just use a little imagination to picture your design drawn out like that.
This book really teaches fashion nomenclature.......1998-09-25
I am an architecture student who was very interested in entering the design world. I picked up this book on a lark and found that without a teacher I was able to master the art of fashion design. It also proved valuable in teaching me the proper names of specific details and silhouettes. As far as I am concerned it is one of the best books out there for understanding the specifics of fashion design while at the same time being entertaining. I give it a high 5.
Don't buy this book under any circumstances........1998-05-12
The authors of this book are pulling a huge scam on people who are interested in learning and/or enhancing their design skills. The information provided isn't even useful for a beginning designer.
My entire take on this book is "we're big shot designers and your NOT. So, you'll be happy to spend $54 plus dollars just to have a book we've taken the time to write." Who are these people, I've never heard of them! I have gotten better and more useful information from books that cost less. Well over half the book is filled with cheap looking line drawings of their designs, which the reader is to copy by tracing. If these were people with a good design sense, I wouldn't be so upset- but they aren't. If a person is looking to learn design in the method the authors "write" about,one would be better served to get a Fashion Trace Barbie Set for $15 bucks. It's the same thing, only Barbie doll designers have better sense of style. I know Amazon is looking to sell books. but this one is taking advantage of people.
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Advanced Fashion Sketchbook
Bina Abling
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This book is lame!.......2001-11-19
They should seriously put a zero star rating. Do not buy this book. The images in this book are remedial compared to so many other fashion books on the market. It is super thin book with about one giant illustration per page. With the money you would spend, there are many that are far worth more spending on than this book. It is pretty much a scrap book of many different designers and each putting one example of their work. If that's what your looking for you'll find more pictures and illustrations even better in a copy of vogue or any fashion magazine. But if you don't believe just buy it and you'll be returning it as soon as it arrives.
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Fashion Sketchbook (Posters to Color)
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Barbie designs beautiful and elegant ballgowns which are displayed on eight poster spreads. A giant full-color poster shows her modeling one of her creations on the runway. The back cover has a design-your-own-fashions activity.
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My God-daughter love's the poster ........2006-04-13
This coloring book is a great gift idea for little girls .
My God -daughter is 15 years old .
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Stupid.......2003-07-27
I did not like it. I don't think it is a good example for fashion designing or for a sketching book. And only little kids like "Barbie" and then they can't even use the book because the parents are afraid they will write on the walls and furniture. NOT A GOOD BOOK.
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Fashion Sketchbook: 1920-1960
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Make fun fashions without threading a needle! Creative clothing design for paper dolls is a snap, using the templates and ideas in this book. Once the paper dolls are fitted with their original outfits, send the brand-new styles down the runway in a paper-doll fashion show! Kit includes: a 52-page sketchbook, 3 paper dolls, 4 stencil sheets, 3 sticker sheets, 20 jewels, sequins, silk cord, 20 paper fabric sheets, 6 tissue paper sheets, 1 sheet removable adhesive dots, and 1 sheet doll handles.
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One of Heimel's most trenchant and incisive books: she wrangles with feminism, family values, these modern times, shopping, and the battle of the sexes in her inimitable no-holds-barred assault on complacency.
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This collection is vintage Heimel and reminds us how much we truly need her to guide us through the maelstrom of our times. Where else can a woman find such expert dating advice as: "My new rule is to never believe a person is interested until you feel his tongue down your throat." Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye shows Heimel at her wicked best. She is our downtown Dorothy Parker, and an antidote to this absurd world for smart, sane women.
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I'd actually say 4 1/2 stars.......2005-11-30
I love Cynthia Heimel's work, and every time I read something by her, I end up nodding my head in agreement to just about everything she says. She is definitely on my list of authors I'd love to go have a drink or three with sometime. I can't see why anyone would think this is a "trashy book" unless they are just really opposed to feminism. I, for one, do not find the idea of women being treated as equals offensive. A lot of what is said in this book needs to be said.
If she comes off as angry sometimes, it's because she's discussing a subject that she has every right to be angry about. (Although I've noticed that a lot of times when a woman is passionate about something, she is dismissed as angry.)
This book is a fun read. It allows you a way to look at something that is actually a pretty serious topic with a light sense of humor. I recommend it.
Better.......2004-09-20
Very cute stories, clever writing, I laughed out loud. Ms. Heimel came of age in the 60's and 70's, but writes about the 90's for singles...or anyone who needs to commiserate about jobs, apartments, friends, dogs, relationships....I recommend this book if you could use a laugh.
It inspired Mr. John Denver to write a country love song!.......2004-09-10
I have no idea as to the merit of the actual content of the book, but the book's title inspired the great Mr. John Denver to write a country 'love' song by the same name- I have to buy it for that reason :) It seems the book's title "just cried out" to John to have a country song written around it and thus he did so- teehee. The song, along with John's intro explaining the whole thing, can be found on his Harbor Lights Concert cd- well worth your purchase!!! :D Thanks for your literary guidance John!!! ~~~Forever John~~~
Brandi in Alabama
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Funny Urban Rants.......2001-07-19
Cynthia Heimel's Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-Bye first got my attention in the bookstore because of its title (like most of her books) and the inside material, for the most part, did not disappoint. First of all, this book is funny but it is also, often, bitter in an angry urban way that can remind one of a downtown Dorothy Parker. But, to repeat, it is funny. She does not tackle any surprising issues, instead sticking to family, the battle between the sexes, feminism and L.A. (as only a New Yorker truly can) but she handles them with fresh insights and, once again, humour. A nice collection of pieces.
Not Heimel's Best.......2001-06-27
Cynthia Heimel is known for her angry-grrl rag, dished up with a healthy sense of humor, so I was up for a little good-natured male-bashing when I read this book. I was a little unprepared for the torrent of angry essays I found upon reading past the introduction.
Not an essay passes without Heimel wanting to shoot or stab someone because they don't agree with her or haven't acheived the same level of spiritual enlightenment. Women who want boyfriends? Shoot 'em. Sexist men? Shoot 'em. Women who are getting sex because they aren't feminists? Shoot 'em. Heimel's world is a bloodbath, with her unhumorous hand on the trigger.
I don't have a problem with women who write that men are jerks, since most of us are. But I can't advocate gunning us down because we're insensitive, not even in jest. When you pick up a book by a celebrated humorist, you expect to find some clever observations and maybe a few unpopular ideas. But this was just a barrage of meanness worthy of Sam Kinnison or Andrew Dice Clay.
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