Templates and paper dolls

Above are the backs of paper dolls cut from 1950's magazines so you get abstract patterns, text, photo's and recipes. This silhouette effect would be good to use for mood boards and source books either cut from printed papers or from fabrics backed with tape to prevent them from fraying.

The paper dolls would also be a good source of templates, people collect images of them and you can google or flickr your way to great archives and modern fashion illustrators interpretations of this historical fashion pass time. The above images are from Barbara Jean's collection

Lisbeth Antoine

These are Lisbeth Antoine's amazing collages, created from runway images of the KTZ show SS13. KTZ is a collaboration between Koji Maruyama, Sasko Bezovski and Marjan Pejoski, for Linda Farrow.

Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven

Sometimes editorials just make you gasp and this one for New York Magazine certainly achieved this. The clash, the colour and the dynamic patterns throughout combined with the sometimes obscuring face paint and wigs creates a wild kaleidoscopic montage. Tania Shcheglova and Roman Noven's creativity has created an edgy, challenging and exciting portfolio, not solely devoted to fashion photography but devoted to exciting visual experimentation which leads to eye popping photography.

Kanae Entani

Beautiful hand appliquéd and embroidered garments by Kanae Entani, to inspire your dress making and fabric manipulation workshops.
Kanae Entani is now back in her native Japan after spending years living and working in the UK, with designers such as Donna Wilson, Julie Arkell and Lizzy Finn.

Phillip Lim 'Cut Up'

Phillip Lim's 'cut up' collection has probably sprung from, amongst other things, the art worlds recent obsession with paper cut work, with artists such as Rob Ryan reaching celebrity status and crossing genres of art and design.
Phillip Lim has cut up different fabrics, arranging and appliquéing them in this innovative collection.
A nod to the fragmentation of modern life, this is a collection with roots in Dadaism and techniques of collage.
Delicate stories run around the garments like fairy tales, romantic and wonderful.
(Images Tank)

Louise Gray SS2013

Reverse appliqué  appliqué  trims, patterns and buzz, a modern punk of busy colour and jangling clashes of pattern, this is Louise Gray's SS2013 collection 'Now What'.
Louise was born in Fraserburgh, Scotland and studied at The Glasgow School of Art in textile design she went on to do her MA at Central Saint Martins.

Bugheart

A clothing diary will help you with your fashion drawing, in particular your rendering of different textiles, styles, and accessories. Please try to keep one, enjoy it and have fun with it. These are some beautiful examples from the notebooks of Gwen an entomologist, who travels widely and likes to plan her wardrobe.
Thank you

Nina Donis SS 2013

Nina Donis has a SS 2013 collection that echo's the era and style of the fifties and in particular the rain mac. This Russian fashion collective has used cotton with all its lovable creases and bright blocks of printed colour creating clothes that also hint at a work-wear and Japanese influence.