Footwear Design
Footwear Design
Editor/Author
Choklat, Aki
Publication Year: 2012
Publisher: Laurence King
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-1-85-669745-3
Category: Arts & Leisure - Fashion
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Aki Choklat explores the footwear design process, explaining the differences between the anatomy of the foot and the anatomy of a shoe, showing how one constrains the other, before moving onto the research and design development processes and the art of creating a complete collection.
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Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 1 FOOTWEAR DESIGN THEN AND NOW
- FASHION AND CELEBRITY—THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES
- HAUTE COUTURE AND SEASONAL FASHION CYCLES—THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
- INNOVATION AND STREET FASHION—THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
- THE FUTURE OF FOOTWEAR DESIGN—THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
- THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY
- CASE STUDY: LIZA SNOOK
- CASE STUDY: CATHERINE WILLEMS
- CHAPTER 2 SHOE BASICS
- FOOT ANATOMY
- SHOE ANATOMY
- THE LAST
- PATTERNS
- MATERIALS USED IN THE SHOE INDUSTRY
- SHOE STYLES
- CASE STUDY: SEBASTIAN TAREK
- CHAPTER 3 RESEARCH
- INSPIRATION
- INVESTIGATION
- THE PROCESS
- COMPILING A SKETCHBOOK
- MOOD BOARD
- DIGITAL RESEARCH
- CREATING AN IDEAS BOOK
- COLOR AND MATERIALS
- TREND ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING
- CASE STUDY: NICOLINE VAN ENTER
- CASE STUDY: NIELS HOLGER WIEN
- CHAPTER 4 COLLECTION DESIGN
- DESIGN DEVELOPMENT
- COLLECTION THEORY
- CASE STUDY: MINNA PARIKKA
- CASE STUDY: ROSANNE BERGSMA
- CASE STUDY: STUART WEITZMAN
- CASE STUDY: PACO GIL
- CHAPTER 5 PRESENTATION
- PRESENTING YOUR IDEAS
- DRAWING
- TECHNICAL DRAWINGS AND LINE DRAWINGS
- MIXED MEDIA
- THE DESIGN PACK
- PORTFOLIO
- AFTER GRADUATION
- CHAPTER 6 TRAINING AND WORKING IN THE FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY
- TRAINING
- FOOTWEAR CAREERS
- CASE STUDY: RACHEL JONES
- SEASONS AND TRADE SHOWS
- CASE STUDY: SUE SAUNDERS
- GLOSSARY
- USEFUL INFORMATION
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS