Nick Verreos

In this how-to textbook, you will learn all the Fundamentals of Draping for Fashion Design, from proper pinning, marking, and cutting to advanced techniques such as bias draping and trueing your design. In addition, you will find guided instructions on sewing your specific fashion draping assignments including the circle skirt, midriff top, wrap dress, and even a standard knit top. This illustrated textbook is an essential step-by-step guide for students, up-and-coming fashion designers and fashion design enthusiasts, to learn the fundamental fashion draping techniques that will put you on the path to successfully create the garments you design.

The "DO'S & DON'TS OF FASHION FLAT SKETCHING" is an indispensable guide for students of Fashion Design. This basic book serves as an introduction to proper sketching techniques when drawing pants, skirts, shirts and jackets. Used as a companion to other instructional material on flat sketching, this supplemental guide does not replace the need for a formal textbook. Instead, it offers essential tips in completing your flat sketches properly. We have identified key issues that are repeatedly made when it comes to Technical Flat Sketching. In an easy-to-read manner, this book shows both the CORRECT and INCORRECT ways of completing flat sketches in a simple Do's & Don'ts format.

From Blocks to the basics of dresses, skirts, tops, sleeves and collars, this guide to basic pattern drafting will provide you the extra assistance you need to understand the fundamentals of patternmaking. As an instructor of patternmaking with over 25 years of professional experience in the fashion industry, I have compiled this book as a means to support and aid beginners in their quest to become proficient in patternmaking and understand how integral it is to Fashion Design. This handbook is to be used as a supplemental guide in addition to the traditional textbook provided by your school. Think of it as a "Quick Guide", giving the student of patternmaking an additional tool to help them understand the basic principles of patternmaking.

Let your creative imagination go Pageant Wild Fashion designer, red carpet expert and educator Nick Verreos, alongside his NIKOLAKI design partner David Paul, have teamed up to create a fresh and fun coloring book for pageant lovers and anyone interested in beautiful fashion design. In "The Pageant Coloring Book", Nick has hand drawn many magnificent beauty queens in fabulous gowns with elaborate details including intricate draping, bedazzled fabrications and Haute Couture-like designs. Use the sketches as a conduit of inspiration, allowing you to bring out your most extraordinary beauty queen dreams, creating your own fabulous Pageant Evening Gown Competition via this very entertaining and unique coloring book.