Zero Waste Fashion Design combines research and practice to introduce a crucial sustainable fashion design approach.

Written by two industry leading pioneers, Timo Rissanen and Holly McQuillan, the book offers flexible strategies and easy-to-master zero waste techniques to help you develop your own cutting edge fashion designs.

Sample flat patterns and more than 20 exercises will reinforce your understanding of the zero waste fashion design process. Beautifully illustrated interviews with high-profile, innovative designers, including Winifred Aldrich, Rickard Lindqvist and Yeohlee Teng, show the stunning garments produced by zero waste fashion design.

Featured topics include:
The criteria for zero waste fashion design
Manufacturing zero waste garments
Adapting existing designs for zero waste
Zero waste designing with digital technologies

Timo Rissanen is Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability at Parsons The New School for Design, NY, USA.

Holly McQuillan is a Senior Lecturer in Design at the College of Creative Arts at Massey University, New Zealand.

Table of content
Introduction

1. Zero-­waste from history to now
Zero waste across cultures and eras
Interview with Alexandra Palmer, Senior Curator, Royal Ontario Museum (Canada)
Modern zero waste fashion design
Interview with Zandra Rhodes, fashion designer (London, UK)
Interview with Maja Stabel, fashion designer (Norway)

2. Pattern cutting as a fashion design tool
Creative pattern cutting
Interview with Winifred Aldrich, fashion author (UK)
Patterns in design ideation
Interview with Julian Roberts, fashion designer (UK)
Interview with Shingo Sato, fashion designer (Japan/Italy)

3. Zero waste fashion design: the basics
Criteria for zero waste fashion design
The design ideation toolbox
Interview with Skaidra Matas, fashion designer (US)
Risky design practice
Designing with the fabric width

4. Zero waste fashion design and CAD
Marker-­-making as design activity
Interview with Julia Lumsden, fashion designer (New Zealand)
New opportunities for CAD
Combining digital technologies

5. Manufacturing zero-­-waste garments
Fashion design and fashion manufacture
Grading zero waste garments
Fabric in manufacturing zero waste garments
Interview with Tara St James, fashion designer (US)

6 Your process: getting started
A few words on inspiration
Interview with Kia Koski, fashion design scholar (Finland)
Documenting and reflecting on design
Interview with Materialbyproduct, fashion brand (Australia)
A few words on sharing
Interview with Yeohlee Teng, Malaysian-born, New York-based fashion designer (US)

Glossary
Index
Acknowledgements