"Pattern making represents a core need-to-know skill for every budding fashion designer but mastery of this complex part of the design process can prove tricky. Pattern Cutting: The Architecture of Fashion is designed to demystify the process and clearly demonstrates the pattern fundamentals, enabling readers to easily construct in both 2D and 3D, and quickly get to grips with basic blocks, shape, sleeves, collars, circles, and trousers. In Pattern Cutting: The Architecture of Fashion, Pat Parish approaches the subject of pattern making through an exploration of proportion, balance, line and form, identifying key shapes and structures from the catwalk and translating them into 3D through a number of cutting, draping and construction processes. This innovative approach provides readers with the inspiration, tools and confidence to both interpret and adapt basic patterns and so take their designs to the next level. Now fully revised, this popular and inspirational sourcebook for young designers has been completely updated to reflect new directions in construction design and techniques, with a renewed emphasis on the impact of sustainability on construction. Beautifully illustrated with all-new contemporary pattern flats, including more pattern instructions for zero waste design, as well as simple step-by-step instructions and online design activities (hosted on Fashion Central), this second edition includes invaluable info about working with a range of fabric types, including techno fabrics like spacer, scuba and neoprene, and explores how different fabrics change pattern cutting and affect shape. Insightful interviews with some of the most exciting practising designers from around the world provide a professional look at pattern cutting in practise, complete with handy tips, short cuts and tricks of the trade, making Pattern Cutting a must-have studio resource for all fashion designers."--