The  Art Of Draping / L'art Des Drapés

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A 2012 book in as new condition looks like it has never been read, bilingual edition. 111 pages. English/French language packed with beautiful colour photographs and information by the award winning designer Niles- Christian. Sold and posted in the UK It is through the experience of a seasoned fashion designer Nils-Christian Ihlen-Hansen that this book deals with the difficult technique of draping in the clothing culture of the Western Fashion. Games of transparencies, movements of matter and body enter into the subtle game of this exercise. Giving the model of the garment its nobility, its cutting technique, its choice of noble fabrics and the dexterity it demands, the drape brings to the garment a notion of work of Art which makes it an exercise in style Prized and magnified by the big names in fashion. Niles-Christian Ihlen-Hansen was born in Oslo and was born with a disability. He studied in a school of deaf-mutes and thanks to the attention of his parents, he learned several lang

25 GBP