How to Be a Fashion Designer (Careers for Kids)
by Lesley Ware (Author)
Design, style, and accessorize clothes with this fun guide full of practical fashion design ideas for kids!
Draw and color creations, choose materials, and learn to design through drawing your own fashion. Packed with practical tips and inspiration, children can enjoy experimenting with new ideas. Illustrations mixed with photography show kids how to choose gorgeous colors, design dress shapes, customize T-shirts, design a bag, pick a color palette, design with texture, and add sparkle to their accessories in simple, easy-to-follow design tasks and simple practical projects.
Using inspiration from the natural world, everyday life, and their own imagination, children can design outfits from scratch and learn how to put together the clothes and accessories they already own in fun, stylish ways.
Contents support the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) approach to cross-curricular learning.
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Gr 4-8--Ware as a fashion educator has created the must-have tween fashion handbook that is filled with designer tips, personal challenges, and plenty of DIY ideas. Each page is filled with bright illustrations and images to get readers thinking about color, patterns, texture, glitter, and so much more. Ware offers ideas for revamping tired pieces of clothing by sparking imagination and creativity. She encourages readers to find their style and express themselves through their own getups. Plenty of blank space with styling prompts is left for aspiring fashion designers to let their creativity flow. VERDICT A great DIY fashion handbook for tween nonfiction collections. Highly recommended for any inspiring fashionistas.--Kayla Casiello, Woods Memorial Library, Barre, MA
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"Gr 4-8-Ware as a fashion educator has created the must-have tween fashion handbook that is filled with designer tips, personal challenges, and plenty of DIY ideas. Each page is filled with bright illustrations and images to get readers thinking about color, patterns, texture, glitter, and so much more. Ware offers ideas for revamping tired pieces of clothing by sparking imagination and creativity. She encourages readers to find their style and express themselves through their own getups. Plenty of blank space with styling prompts is left for aspiring fashion designers to let their creativity flow. VERDICT A great DIY fashion handbook for tween nonfiction collections. Highly recommended for any aspiring fashionistas." - School Library Journal
