Fashion Bags and Accessories: Creative Design and Production

Fashion Bags and Accessories explores fashion bags and related accessories, such as purses, wallets, clutches, cases, gloves and belts, through various approaches to creative design, product development, technological innovation, materials development, component design (hardware) and branding. Readers will become familiar with key constructions - T base, Turned, Bucket or Baguette bags and gain grounding in both traditional craft-making techniques and contemporary digital manufacturing process. Traditional accessory materials like leather are considered alongside new and emerging sustainable materials. Key elements of fashion bags and accessories like component design, signature branding and logo design are also covered in depth.

Primarily aimed at students on fashion design, product design, or specialized accessories courses, the book will also be a go-to reference for professionals wishing to move into or evolve in this product area. Accessories, in particular bags and items related to wearable technology, are a rapidly growing and innovative area of fashion design.

This book covers the design of a wide range of bags - not just all the different handbag styles but key pieces such as luggage, cases, backpacks, satchels, weekenders, as well as wallets, document holders, pouches etc.

The designs featured are feminine, masculine, and genderless, and all beautifully illustrated through archival photography, exclusive artwork and especially commissioned technical drawings.