Manuela Brambatti – författare

Building on the success of Fashion Illustration and Design, this second volume takes Manuela Brambatti’s creative approach further, offering an in-depth look at turning inspiration into distinctive fashion designs. Drawing on over forty years of experience, including her work as a partner at the Versace fashion house (1981–2009), Brambatti shares her professional insights and creative methodology.The book goes beyond technical drawing, focusing on developing a personal creative language. Through exercises, examples, and step-by-step guidance, readers learn to observe the world around them—objects, textures, artworks, and visual impressions—and translate these into fresh, original concepts. Brambatti’s unique blend of fashion illustration and expressive sketching encourages experimentation while maintaining clarity and balance, showing how ideas can evolve from initial inspiration to polished collections.Grounded in her philosophy of simplicity and beauty, this volume guides designers at every stage of the creative process. Ideal for students, emerging designers, or professionals, it helps refine skills, expand imagination, and develop a confident, personal style, transforming observation into wearable, original, and innovative fashion art.

A design tutorial by Daniela Brambatti, Versace's chief (design) illustrator, the book is an idea of couturier Flavio Marconi who, impressed by her drawing style and the precision with which she captures the flow of fabric over the body, convinced her to put it into print. Here Brambatti reveals her fresh and innovative style, halfway between fashion sketching and illustration.

This book analyzes the fundamental aspects of graphically depicting a wide variety of jewelry. The relationships of volume, balance between full and empty, treatment of metal surfaces, warm and cool materials and the relationship between the support and the stone are explained in depth along with ways to illuminate jewelry, treatment of light and chiaroscuro play to add depth. The book begins with simple geometric structures and moves on to explore more complex forms through a range of distortions and multiplications. The goal is not to show finished pieces of jewelry but to provide the tools that will enable readers to acquire a work method that allows them to represent their ideas effectively. From orthogonal and axonometric projections to techniques (watercolor, tempera, ink, mixed technique) and different possible supports, readers will find a source of inspiration for developing their own designs. Rings, tiaras, precious stones, bracelets and chains) are graphically represented in this book as if they were real, along with effects such as depth, gloss and transparency.

The third book from this series on illustration and design focuses on the most popular accessories: shoes, handbags, hats, belts, gloves and glasses. Brilliantly illustrated by Manuela Brambatti, a key member of the Gianni Versace fashion house for nearly thirty years, and co-authored by the designer Fabio Menconi, the book guides readers through the fashion world’s most iconic accessories, and it features practical information and technical advice on how to draw them to achieve a desired result. From creating a basic drawing to using colour, the way in which techniques are presented seeks to encourage readers to try out what they have learned. The publication provides detailed information on how to capture different materials, surfaces and decora- tions—for example, skin, natural fibres, wool and prints—and it includes sections that provide tips on where to look for inspiration. It also offers examples of transformations in designs and reviews the historical development of accessories. In short, this is a comprehensive, structured and systematic volume that will serve professionals, students and anyone who wants to venture into designing and illustrating fashion accessories.