Book excerpt: "With The Fashion Design Toolkit you'll learn how tried-and-tested principles, such as gathers, pleats, slack, and twists, can become a creative toolbox to help you adapt patterns and create your own original garment designs. Each technique is illustrated in a variety of contexts, demonstrating how and why it has been used by other designers, so you can use the history of each tool as inspiration for your original collections. Ethical practice is woven throughout the book, with tips on how to implement techniques in an environmentally sustainable way."--