Artistic Development in [fashion] Design
Thornquist, Clemens, 2010
This text is neither the ordinary design method book that some institutes may be asking for, nor does it present the alchemic formula of art which others claim to harbour. Instead, it presents a straightforward approach to the art of giving form, in particular the one of dress and body as an expressive language in it self. As such, this may not involve so much exercises for design as artistic methods for building and developing an abstract language – the dialectics, grammar and poetic figures of form [clothing].
From this perspective, these methods are neither practical nor theoretical. They are both. At once. They aim at the practising of visioning: the concrete making of concepts. All in all, therefore, these exercises aim to resolve, in a very pragmatic way, the artificial break between abstract theory and concrete practice.