9 Heads: A Guide to Drawing Fashion

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Summary: The Best Drawing Guide!!!
Review: I found this book beautifully designed and rich in information.
After a long search for books that demonstrated contemporary fashion, 9 Heads is the only book available. It is a guide for people who are interested in fashion, both beginning and advanced, and the illustrations are fantastic. I especially loved the interviews with designers and artists, and there is no other book available which incorporates technical flats.

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Summary: get the skills to pay the bills
Review: I recently graduated from the Fashion Institute where I was encouraged to learn from 9 Heads. I really enjoyed the book and my drawing and design skills improved dramatically. In combination with the knowledge from the book and practice, I developed a fantastic portfolio, with an immense range of technical and creative fashion drawings. I now am working as an assistant to a fashion designer. 9 Heads is a must have for anyone interested in improving their skills and broadening their knowledge.

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Summary: A fine text and reference
Review: I was assigned this book when I went to FIDM. It is a little scant as far as details go, but I had the wonderfully fulfilling opportunity to enroll in Riegelman's class and it is THERE you learn her art of fashion sketching. The book feels like only a supplement, otherwise it would be a five star, hands down. The reference section she includes about sketching modern materials and accents is BEYOND valuable. I still make reference to these sketches because theyre so starkly and simply illustrated. It's not necessarily a step-by-step book, in my opinion it feels like you should have known a little bit about sketching before you entered the world of 9 heads. Riegelman just provides her lot of sketches and portfolio pieces as examples to encourage you to reverse engineer your own sort of drawing and rendering style (that's exactly what happened with me!). At FIDM, even outside FIDM, you can always pick out who has every been taught by or read something by Riegelman. I recommend!!

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Summary: Best Fashion Designer Book
Review: Mrs.Nancy Riegelman was my teacher at Fashion Institute(FIDM)of Los Angeles,she is the best teacher that I ever had and her book reflect her talent. Now I am teaching Fashion Illustration too and I use her book as a reference for my work.Buy this book and you won't be deceived, you will learn a lot and keep on getting better.

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Summary: just fab
Review: this book is a great guide for designing beginners.
it's mostly pictures and few words, so you could never get bored of it.
the price can keep people teeter-tottering but it's definitely a must buy.

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Summary: I love this book
Review: This book is perfect for any one who loves fashion and hopes to go into a fashion career. The book in cludes 100s of sketches of fabrics, shoes, faces, shirts, any thing you can image. A perfect gift for any one!

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Summary: This is a book for profesionals
Review: This book was actually required at my professional design college in los angeles so I definatly think they would only choose the best of the best to teach us and it worked!!!

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Summary: Great for drawing women...only women
Review: This is ALMOST the Bible of Fashion Design, save for the fact that it does not show you how to draw men's, juniors, children's, or infant's clothing. This is a must have in anyone's collection, but upon having Ms. Riegleman as a teacher I must warn the reader not to adopt the style in the book as their own but to use the book as a means to develop their own personal style.