Cool couture: construction secrets for runway style

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Choosing fabrics -- Equipment and tools -- Edge and seam finishes -- Piping -- Pockets and buttonholes -- The tailored shoulder -- Designer embellishments.;"Cool Couture is a home sewer's guide to professional, designer-quality construction and finishing. Fashion designer Kenneth King provides step-by-step instruction in the basic, reliable techniques of classical couture. He provides his own shortcuts, careful instruction, and advice to help home sewers of every level produce impeccable results. Each technique is presented with simple how-to drawings and detailed step-by-step instruction. Fashion-forward photographs of the designer's own couture garments and tight shots of fabrics and construction and decorative detail show the finished effects. This book is an essential reference book of couture techniques for home sewers."--Global Books in Print. Choosing fabrics -- Equipment and tools -- Edge and seam finishes -- Piping -- Pockets and buttonholes -- The tailored shoulder -- Designer embellishments.