Contents: Historical reference and reverence -- Emulation and innovation -- Trends: on, off, and adjacent -- Corroborating couture -- Forging identity -- Sensing style -- Fashion equations -- Suits of armor -- Client compatibility -- Customization -- Restraint, impulse, and impact -- Mind mapping -- Net and narrow -- Disposable as investment -- Environmental context -- Acquisitions -- Collaboration -- Articulation of style -- Building and breaking templates -- Pattern instruments -- Stitching tools -- Rendering media -- Taming textiles -- Letters: slopers -- Words: garments -- Sentences: ensembles -- Stories: collections --- Punctuation: details -- closures -- Specialty requisites -- Miscellaneous markers -- Care and feeding of a garment -- Ancient tools and techniques -- Accessory closet -- Vintage patina -- Fashion translations -- Four seasons: a timeline -- Rote, rules, and roughs -- Hand to eye -- Checks and balances -- Machine interface -- Cut, drape, and fold -- Underpinnings and assembly -- Manipulating fullness -- Body mapping -- Uniformity -- Fit -- Mend and alter -- Deconstruct and reconstruct -- Structure and scale -- Anatomically correct -- Roads less traveled -- Camouflage and complement -- Clothes that carry -- Design unto others -- Reshape and reconfigure -- Resurface -- A cut above -- Fringe and fray -- Add, subtract, and preserve -- Change agents -- Drawing the eye -- A-symmetry -- Intarsia: puzzles and missing links -- The reveal -- Cultivated influence -- Curated experience -- Culture filter -- More is more -- Less is more -- Meditation on a dress -- Building on basics -- Design of dissent -- Attitude adjustment -- Myths and archetypes -- Wit -- Blackouts and full immersion -- Representation and abstraction -- Symbols -- Dynamics -- Trompe L'Oeil -- Space and sculpture -- Matters of size: addressing curves -- Dressing for Bowie -- Objects of art -- A designer's inheritance -- Luxury washing -- Copies degrade -- Platforms -- Label maker -- Master and apprentice -- Designing the job -- External influences -- Lifestyle: a rosetta stone -- Fashion portals -- Diversification and specialization -- Crowdsourcing style -- Labors of love: DIY -- Rapid prototyping: twenty-four-hour fashion -- What is good fashion?