Fashion Design Portfolio Websites | Tips and Examples
If you want to start a career in fashion design, you’ll need a website that works as hard as you do. Here are tips for making your fashion portfolio shine.
Last Updated June 17, 2021
Rich Heaton
Theme used: HorizonRich Heaton is a commercial photographer with a love for Beauty, Fashion, and Advertising Photography. He has been featured on billboards for New York Fashion week among other print and web-based publications.
https://richheaton.format.comMonay Taylor
Theme used: ObsidianMonay is a fashion designer and seamstress in NYC. Raised in Flint, Michigan, she then moved to Chicago where she focused on fine and applied arts. Her passion for style, sewing, and costuming is what she's determined to keep doing.
https://monaytaylor.format.comTonica Pitman
Theme used: ArrayFounder of TYPFFE, Tonicia Pitman is a designer, mom of two, and successful businesswoman. When she started TYPFFE, she set out to discover what would make her clothing different than every other clothing brand. The result is trendy designs that are fit for the everyday working woman, whether she is a mother or a boss lady juggling many projects. TYPFFE provides clothing that gives you the freedom to go about your business comfortably, while still looking great.
https://mytypdesign.format.comPaul Rodgers
Theme used: PeakPaul Rodgers is a London-based makeup artist and hairstylist. With over 12 years of experience working in the creative industry, Paul has worked in advertising, fashion, music, TV, and theatre. Paul also has experience working with various clients in fashion, runway, beauty, and red carpet.
https://paulrodgers.format.comGaëlle
Theme used: PeakGaelle Bonnot is a freelance makeup artist and hairstylist. Gaelle works with subtle materials and the desire to challenge. Based in Paris, the city has allowed her to open up to the world of studio and practice in an area where it overcomes the codes.
https://gaellebonnot.format.comJennifer Mazur
Theme used: Horizon LeftJennifer Mazur is a fashion and celebrity stylist based in Los Angeles. She has styled public figures like Alessandra Ambrosio, Camila Cabello, Olivia Culpo, Irina Shayk, Sara Sampaio, Sofia Ritchie, Isla Fisher, Sofia Boutella, Kat Graham, and more, as well as fashion publications like Harpers Bazaar, Elle, L'Officiel, and others. Jennifer has a sophisticated eye and styles her clients in a modern, elegant way with a touch of edge. Her clients are on the top dressed lists worldwide.
https://jennifermazurstyle.format.comFashion Design Portfolio Ideas: Take Professional Photos
You’ve worked tirelessly to bring a clothing collection from concept to its physical form. It’s worth hiring or collaborating with local photographers and models to capture your work for your portfolio website for an editorial look. Professional photoshoots help elevate your artwork and show a lot of creative direction in your overall branding as a fashion designer.
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Theme used: LineSarah Park is a self-motivated designer currently studying at RISD. She is known for creating work centered around alternative solutions that prevent contributing to the overwhelming amount of waste fashion desecrates into the environment. She is also known for advocating and using fashion as a form of self-expression. Many of her projects are inspired by personal experiences with struggling to find comfort in her own identity and wishes to one day inspire others through her journey.
https://sarahpark.format.comGaia Lina
Theme used: CarouselGaia Lina is a Dutch artist living in the South of Portugal. Studied Fine Arts at the Academy of Amsterdam and has been working as an artist, designer and teacher for many years. Specialised in felting very light and delicate shawls, dresses, jackets, vests and shrouds. Design of interior items as cushions, lamps and panels with the idea to bring that beautiful natural feeling into our homes.
https://gaia-lina-upoa.format.comCristobal Eolo
Theme used: FrameBorn in Guadalajara, Mexico, Cristobal Eolo migrated to the United States with his mother at a young age, and thus began his fashion journey. Always fascinated and inspired by the art, the beauty, the glamour, the obscurity, and the power of feminine energy, Cristobal designs with the ideals of Femme Wear at the forefront of his mind. He strives to create a final look that transforms the body with feminine power regardless of gender.
https://cristobal-gonzalez-jrbc.format.comFashionBoltonUni
Theme used: Horizon LeftFashionBoltonUni is dedicated to Fashion Design and Realisation with a commercial edge, embedding sustainability and ethical design into thought-provoking modules. Working closely with industry and creative practices, FashionBoltonUni helps students develop as independent individuals ready to work in their chosen career path.
https://fashion-bolton-uni.format.comAlexis Walsh
Theme used: Horizon LeftAlexis Walsh is a designer and artist based in New York City. Through the exploration of emerging technologies including 3D printing and digital computational modeling, integrated with traditional handcraft, Alexis utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to push the boundaries of fashion design. Alexis's work has been exhibited in New York, Boston, Paris, London, Moscow, Madrid, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Berlin.
https://alexiswalsh.format.comLinsey Myriam Bain
Theme used: MeridianLinsey Myriam Bain is a design director who specializes in accessories, handbags, and leather goods. With over 10 years of experience in product development, trend forecasting, and sampling, she has built collections for Kendall & Kylie, ALDO, Mackage, RUDSAK, and Nicole Richie. With a background in studying arts and culture prior to fashion design, this designer is detail-oriented, thorough, and innovative.
https://linsey-myriam-bain-portfolio.format.comFashion Designer Portfolio Ideas: Share Your Creative Process
How you came to your designs is just as important as the design work itself. Be sure to add the inspirations in your portfolio pieces, such as mood boards, fabric samples, photo inspiration, sketches, digital mockups, and more. Sharing insights into your creative process gives potential employers and clients an idea into your thought process, and what it may be like to work with you.
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Start your free accountFloriane LAVRUT
Theme used: CollageFloriane Lavrut is a French freelance designer based in Paris. She works in the fields of Fashion Design (styling, trends, etc.) and Textile Design (pattern, embroidery, etc.). In addition, she works with Illustration, including graphic design and visual identity. She believes form and function should work together in a thoughtful and sociological approach, encouraging self-expression and creativity.
https://floriane-lavrut.format.comlinxizhu
Theme used: GraceGraduating from London College of Fashion, Linxi Zhu is a Womenswear knitwear designer based in China and London. During the time when she was pursuing her BA Fashion Textiles Knit in London College of Fashion, Linxi always challenges the traditional ways of knitting and establishes a new perception of how knitted textiles can be created through the combination of unconventional materials with yarns.
https://linxi.format.comLouise Desoeuvre
Theme used: HorizonLouise Desoeuvre is a French Fashion Designer. With a passion for storytelling and archives, she aims to create meaningful and powerful designs. Louise studied her BA in Fashion Design at Bath Spa University. She had always been focused on how cultural heritage can be preserved and endlessly reinterpreted. Passionate about the meaning of dress in relation to culture, her research is grounded in sociology, fashion, anthropology, folklore and history.
https://louise-desoeuvre.format.comValerie Hawkins
Theme used: AlbersValerie Hawkins creates footwear collections for clients around the world. Over the years she has worked with many product developers, technicians and factories all over the world to design and build successful collections. Drawing on these experiences she now designs and develops shoes, on a consultancy basis, from her studio in Somerset, UK.
https://valerie-hawkins.format.comLizz Hill
Theme used: AlbersLizz Hill is an NYC based 3D artist and technical designer by trade as well as a jewelry designer, 3D printing evangelist, experimental embroiderer and weekend potter! Lizz's work embraces the use of modern technology while emphasizing the traditions of hand-craftsmanship and her portfolio is the accumulation of her work, professional life, passion projects and her community-focused endeavors.
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