High fashion unquestionably goes hand-in-hand with sartorial and
stylistic perfection. A driving force behind the entire fashion and
garment industry, it represents the search for new solutions concerning
fabrics, style or patterns. In this context, the patternmaker is an
essential figure who makes the stylist's ideas a reality. In our richly
illustrated new volume from the Fashion Patternmaking series, the
prolific author Antonio Donnanno, the director of a network of fashion
schools and a patternmaking teacher who comes from a long line of
tailors, describes the methods and techniques used in high-fashion for
making drapes, frills and flounces, collars, necklines and sleeves, and
high-fashion trousers and skirts in a detailed, understandable and
step-by-step way.