Fabrics in Fashion Design: The Complete Textile Guide. Third Updated and Enlarged Edition - Paperback

by Stefanella Sposito (Author), Gianni Pucci (Photographer)

Fabrics in Fashion is a fabric encyclopedia of textile information that contains everything there is to know about the use of fabrics in fashion design, from the history of the fabric to terminology and explanations of how the fabric will perform, feel and look.

Author Biography

Stefanella Sposito lives and works in Milan, where she teaches art history, costume history and textile technology. She is the author of critical essays and numerous articles published in art and fashion magazines such as Filoforme, Jacquard and Moodmagazine. She organizes seminars and conferences at the international level on fabric techniques and history as well as conducting research projects in these fields. Some of her designs have appeared in such magazines as Vogue Italia.

Gianni Pucci took his first steps in fashion photography at the end of the 80s. He has made the harmony between light and subject and an instinctive talent for seeing the photograph and capturing it in the same instant into the stylistic hallmarks photographing the first top models and the first fashion shows. In the following years, he founded the agency Indigital, today, thanks to the experimentation of new media, evolved into IDI Production. His work has been published on the biggest fashion and design magazines and sites, from Style to Vogue.