The AVA Academia blog

Important brand changes for AVA Publishing and Fairchild Books

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We are having SO MUCH FUN in the office today. A meeting about supplementary materials turned into a discussion about a fashion competition for students in the form of a creative brief, which turned into a pattern cutting class using the image files from our new book Pattern Cutting: The Architecture of Fashion…

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Jewellery Design: From Fashion to Fine Jewellery

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This is an exciting time for AVA as we were recently purchased by Bloomsbury Publishing (Harry Potter’s publisher…)! We are joining other recent visual arts acquisitions by Bloomsbury’s Academic division, such as Berg and Fairchild.

To celebrate this, AVA are holding a sale and a competition for three people to win a copy of our bestselling title, Simon Seivewright’s Basics Fashion Design 01: Research and Design (second edition).

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We’re very excited to have the eagerly anticipated advances of Basics Fashion Design 09: Designing Accessories by John Lau sitting in the office…from bags, footwear, jewellery and millinery, plus a whole chapter on small accessories (eyewear, scarves, ties, wristwatches, belts and gloves) we hope everyone interested in accessories design will find this an inspiring and informative read.

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James Walker’s collection leapt out at us when we saw it on the catwalk at the UCA Epsom show at GFW this year. Eye-catching, memorable, tongue-in-cheek and quintessentially British. We weren’t surprised when we heard that we was up for the Gold Award. He kindly made some time to speak to us at the show, explaining what inspired him.

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New digital technologies have transformed the landscape of fashion design, particularly when it comes to printed textile design. Recently, fashion has seen designers such as Mary Katrantzou making colourful and eclectic prints their signature style. Printed textiles are flavour of the year in the fashion world – to the extent that at the recent Graduate Fashion Week, Julien Macdonald voiced his opinion that the print market is currently ‘saturated’. But many young designers are experimenting with digital, trying out new software and pushing the boundaries of what can be achieved when you move away from traditional methods. Kate Lynch has just graduated with a wholly digital collection. Kate will be selling her work at New Designers and Indigo.

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The Fundamentals of Fashion Design, 2nd ed. offers an exciting and inspirational introduction to the key elements of fashion design.  [...]

Feast your eyes on the entries for the AVA mannequin competition at this year’s Graduate Fashion Week!
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An exciting announcement about our competition this year at Graduate Fashion Week…

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