Design Your Fashion Portfolio : Review

A fashion guide that not only contains tons of information about succeeding in the fashion and textile industry, but also is up to date with the modern fashion world, and includes aspects such as the impact celebrity designers have on the fashion world, and web presence. As a whole, this great knowledge of the modern and changing fashion world certainly guides readers into a greater understanding of the modern world and customer demands, with fabulous topics that also cover the impact and justification for fashion, as well as great tips and tricks for actual creation of garments, portfolios and fashion showcases.

The guide’s simple yet professional lay out makes information much easier to read, with step by step processes, key learning targets and checklists. Appealing sketches, diagrams, visual representation and layouts included, also contributes to the guide’s easy usage. Information includes detailed stages involved with a wide range of aspects relevant to students and existing fashion designers. Detailed topics such as muslins and prototypes are also covered at a professional level.

The guide also supports development of brands and entering the professional fashion world; key tips and tricks such as career and interview information result in a guide that overall supports the industry. Evaluation of deeper levels such as colour, fabrics and knowing your product, are evaluated at an advanced level. Unusual ideas and concepts are also targeted, for example the use of an eclipse and its shape, colour and pattern to create a collection based on that theme, or simply tips on choosing a photographer suitable for your collection.

 As a whole, the guide creates an overall insight into the fashion and textile industry, with developed evaluation and highly useful topics. The guide is perfect for studying students, current fashion designers and those wishing to enter the industry. In some cases the guide can seem a little too specific, and readers should develop individual thoughts and opinions. But the guide also supports the idea that in some cases ‘you must break the rules of fashion to create fashion’, which I can see as an obvious yet essential rule. This guide as a whole is certainly one that will provide many with essential information for years to come in their career.