Fashion Futures

Exploring the innovative designs and technologies shaping fashion

Bradley Quinn author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Merrell Publishers Ltd

Published:12th Mar '12

Should be back in stock very soon

Fashion Futures cover

This book explores the future of fashion through innovative designs, materials, and technologies. Fashion Futures provides insights from industry leaders and trend forecasters.

In Fashion Futures, readers are invited to explore a comprehensive survey of innovative clothing designs, advanced materials, and pioneering technologies that are shaping the future of fashion. The book features insightful interviews with prominent designers and trend forecasters, along with a detailed directory of practitioners and researchers leading the charge in fashion technology and design. As fashion evolves at an unprecedented speed, Fashion Futures examines how these advancements are fundamentally transforming our understanding of clothing.

The inspiration for futuristic garment designs often stems from unexpected fields such as biological science, climate change, and artificial intelligence. This book delves into how these diverse influences are contributing to the creation of radical new fashion concepts. It highlights transformational products, unique design processes, and the innovative materials that are at the forefront of this revolution. By showcasing groundbreaking practitioners, Fashion Futures provides readers with a glimpse into the future of fashion.

Additionally, design expert Bradley Quinn discusses the evolution of retail operations, the art of fashion forecasting, and the interplay between fashion and various other disciplines. With a rich array of illustrations depicting avant-garde designs and prototypes, Fashion Futures serves as a thought-provoking guide to how fashion will be conceived, produced, and experienced in the twenty-first century.

The photos and cover design make this a great coffee table book but the insightful predictions and interviews with the most cutting edge designers, engineers and marketing executives working in the fashion industry also make this book a must-read for those interested in fashion. - BLOGCRITICS An intriguing look at the composition of fashion in the 21st century. - EDGE Fashion Futures offers an entirely new way of looking at the world of fashion. - NEW YORK JOURNAL OF BOOKS 'A thought-provoking overview.' - BESPOKE MAGAZINE

ISBN: 9781858945637

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240 pages