Little Black Dress

Description

In 1926, Coco Chanel designed the little black dress; it was hugely versatile for many different occasions and continued to be fashionable year after year with simple amendments and different accessories keeping it up to date. Nearly 90 years later, the little black dress is still a wardrobe essential and each season designers continue to adapt new versions of this classic. This book supplies patterns for a number of different styles of little black dress, with instructions on how to make different styles of necklines, sleeves etc., showing the reader how to adapt and customise the basic patterns.

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This classic dress is always a subject of fascination Filled with different styles and patterns Step-by-step sequences show sewers how to tailor make their own little black dress

Author description

Fashion designer and pattern maker Isabel Sanchez Hernandez started her career in 1986 when she held her first show at the Teatro Principal de Vitoria. Between 1989 and 2004 she worked alongside Devota & Lomba, Jesus del Pozo and Agatha Ruiz de la Prada coordinating and designing events for the Pasarela Cibeles. From 1999 she mainly employs her time teaching Pattern Making, Modeling and Fashion History at IED, ESME and UIA.