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Fashion Design

A topic within Craft & Applied Design, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Design.

Reading on Fashion Design

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Book1918

The Secrets of Distinctive Dress

Mary Brooks Picken

Argues that becoming dress follows the same design principles as any visual art — line, proportion, colour and rhythm suited to the individual figure — rather than simply following whatever a season's fashion dictates.

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Design · Craft & Applied Design
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Book1854

Dress as a Fine Art

Mary Philadelphia Merrifield

Argues that dress should be governed by the same principles of colour, proportion and line that govern painting, and sets out rules for adapting those principles to an individual figure and complexion.

Design · Craft & Applied Design
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