Inside Top Fashion Desginer’s Creative Process on NOWNESS.com‏

John Galliano

[My sources of inspiration] are very English. They are a combination of moods, muses and moments. It is high-tech romance with a twist. It could be literature, art or music. I love street culture, uniforms, Savile Row. I love it all. Men or women. Dead or alive.

NOWNESS.com presents exclusive images from Hywel Davies’ soon to be released book, Fashion Designers’ Sketchbooks. Through interviews with designers, mood boards, sketches, photographs and other inspirational material, Davies offers a chance to witness the fashion design process behind the end product. 



Fascinated by the journey from concept to runway, Hywel Davies—a lecturer at London’s esteemed art college Central Saint Martins and the ex-editor of Sleazenation—has compiled 'Fashion Designers’ Sketchbooks', published by Laurence King on September 29

Visit NOWNESS.com to view images from Fashion Designers’ Sketchbooks:

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Dries Van Noten

One of a multitude of different ways I begin a collection is to take something I do not find immediately alluring and transform it into something beautiful or challenging. Mauve has never been my favorite colour, yet my disdain for the tone forced me to create a collection mainly in mauve.

 Read top designers’ such Vivienne Westwood, Matthew Williamson and Tim Hamilton on the creative process:

http://www.nowness.com/day/2010/9/4/952