cool stuff - book

This book is hard to see (and even harder to work out) but very cool. It is called Flatness folded - a collection of 23 contemporary chinese garments.

The book basically talks about the utalitarian style of dress and exploring the chinese style. Miranda Tsui the designer has essays and then visual to explore the designs. This is one of my favourites that I plan to make for myself.

Each design starts with the model wearing the garment in their usual life - this is about the pants shown on a messenger boy.

Here is a shot of the actual pants which you can see have a shirt over pants.

Finally you get the detail shot of the front and back. The skirt is only over the front and the back looks like harem style pants. There are some generic measurements to help if you wanted to make it, but there is a lot of 'making' that has to happen in your head. This is as deep as the instructions go, and there are some garments that are twisted and folded and flipped that trying to work out how they are constructed gives me a head ache but it is definately a challenge and one I want to tackle this year.