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The Snap Fashion Sketchbook

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The authors of this book are pulling a huge scam on people who are interested in learning and/or enhancing their design skills. The information provided isn't even useful for a beginning designer.

My entire take on this book is "we're big shot designers and your NOT. So, you'll be happy to spend $54 plus dollars just to have a book we've taken the time to write." Who are these people, I've never heard of them! I have gotten better and more useful information from books that cost less. Well over half the book is filled with cheap looking line drawings of their designs, which the reader is to copy by tracing. If these were people with a good design sense, I wouldn't be so upset- but they aren't. If a person is looking to learn design in the method the authors "write" about,one would be better served to get a Fashion Trace Barbie Set for $15 bucks. It's the same thing, only Barbie doll designers have better sense of style. I know Amazon is looking to sell books. but this one is taking advantage of people.

I am an architecture student who was very interested in entering the design world. I picked up this book on a lark and found that without a teacher I was able to master the art of fashion design. It also proved valuable in teaching me the proper names of specific details and silhouettes. As far as I am concerned it is one of the best books out there for understanding the specifics of fashion design while at the same time being entertaining. I give it a high 5.

What self-taught fashion illustrators/designers probably do not understand is that the fashion flat illustration is ESSENTIAL to the fashion industry! You can render the most beautiful fashion figures, but they won't tell manufacturers a damn thing about how to produce the actual garment - the fashion flat with all of the appropriate details (stitch lines, pocket and button placement, etc) is how we as designers communicate with the actual people producing the garment.

This book is a great tool for beginning designers! Learning to design with fashion flats will not only make you a better and more efficient designer, but also help you to communicate your ideas, and give you a better understanding of how garments are actually constructed.

Do not be swayed by those who believe that fashion is all about pretty drawings.

This was a great book, I have learned so much from it. At the present time, I am a student at a community college that offers a full Fashion Design program. This book is actually used by the instructor and she recommened it as an addition to the book that we were required to buy. I am glad I did! This book teaches you the basics of drawing a flat and a croquis (a body form). This is not a fashion illustration book so don't get it confused with that. In fashion design one of the things you NEED to learn is how to draw a flat (it's what is used to make a pattern of the design you create) and this book is excellent for it. I am very glad I bought it.

This book is designed to teach how to draw industry flats not high fashion illustration. Industry flat are drawings of garments and their construction. Flats are technical drawings of how to make and assemble garments. The book is to be used as a reference on how to draw flat details, such as collars, darts, sleves, zippers etc. Many schools use the book in conjuntion with the snap fashion program.

The book I purchased arrived in the time stated, and was in excellent condition! Thanks again! :)

i had to buy this book for a class in my fashion design program. i thought it was a huge ... when i bought it. it's an absorbitant amount of money for pages that look like they have been photocopied and put together cheaply with one of those flimsy plastic book binding things. i suppose that it was a bit helpful in understanding how to produce sketches for the industry. but, think i agree with the person who suggested the barbie sketching thing. just use a little imagination to picture your design drawn out like that.