Fashion Portfolio: Design & Presentation

Heads up this is an essay review because of how excited I am about this book. But I saved the essay for the end. TLDR: go watch the video someone posted here, they said flipped through the whole book. IF YOU’RE AN ILLUSTRATOR, VISUAL ARTIST, CHARACTER/COSTUME DESIGNER: Absolutely amazing for fashion illustrators and illustrators in general, as well as character designers, looking for experimental, avant- garde, architectural, high fashion, hardware filled, not your average fashion illustration book. It features modern illustration styles. It features a lot of Asian illustrators unlike I’ve seen in other fashion illustration books, which I love. IF YOU’RE AN ACTUAL FASHION DESIGNER: Now for actual fashion designer looking into this book, I would say this book is more for inspiring those who focus on modern high fashion runway ready to wear pieces. Designers who are looking to set the trend and bring fashion innovation whether it’s realistically functional to wear day to day or not. You know, the street style mixed, avant-garde, architectural, 3D printed, think Iris Van Herpen, Vogue’s features runway ready to wear photo albums. This book is more like an inspiration book of stylizing and spicing up your fashion illustration portfolio and your high fashion design routine rather than being an actual construction or step by step guide to developing your folder portfolio to show your clients. I wouldn’t say it’s for designers looking for mainstream department store easy to wear sportswear and gowns. Again, even as an illustrator, I would probably be disappointed if I am a fashion designer if I bought this book expecting examples of refined presentable fashion design folder portfolio or construction varieties. It’s more of a scrapbook of innovative ideas so you can stop being basic ;) CONTINUED RANT FROM AN EXCITED ILLUSTRATOR FOR AMUSED AND BORED PEOPLE: I’m an illustrator with heavy fashion illustration influence with a surreal flair. I’m all about avant grade and surprising construction. I have been collecting fashion illustration books but every time am disappointed at how basic and mainstream and sportswear they are. Their showcase of rendering styles were nothing refreshing, just the usual flat felt tip liner, marker or watercolor base, and details with color pencil, highlights in chalk pastel or white gouache and tempera. As much as I appreciate the basics, I like to color my work digitally and experiment with textures, and I was itching for a book that at least showcased Laura Laine’s level of creative rendering and stylization. I wanted to see curated renderings and reference ready edited photographs of avant garde and sculptural/architectural elements like Iris van Harpen, hardware creativity with Victorian, steampunk, post apocalyptic, military details that would help me with buckles, chains, corsets, harnesses,m…innovative silhouettes and combinations that would help exploring street style and modern ready to wear runway pieces…but I’ve had to settle for my pinterest board, still having trouble finding uniquely rendered modern fashion illustrations beyond the norm and the brush and ink liner minimalism. Never did I expect to find what I’ve been looking for in fashion illustration book in a book called Fashion Portfolio! This book is exactly what I wanted, tickles my creativity and their general graphic design and layout has me excited and engaged page to page! I found it by accident, this book was in my Amazon suggestions as I purchased Fashion Illustration and Design by Manuela Brambatti (this book is actually fantastic if you’re at intermediate figure drawing level diving into fabric renderings). I looked at the video review on a whim (a must see they posted the WHOLE BOOK flip through)… and was absolutely blown away at the aesthetics, had to get it! I didn’t even realize how much dedicated pages on illustration it had until I received it today and flipped through the book half way! Even the grayscale stylized photos of sculptural structures meant for actual designers is way more helpful for me to see the construction than my usual pinterest references. OK I’M GONNA GO FINISH LAST HALF OF THE BOOK! ANNA KIPER I LOVE YOU

Just received this book and it's so amazing I want to share a video! The book is a great visual resource for fashion students, designers, absolute beginners, or any creative people who love art and glamour. This book is original, modern, and beautifully illustrated - literally bursting with gorgeous fashion photography and sketches in full color. The book is presenting a variety of cutting edge approaches on portfolio development, design process, illustration styles, and presentation. I absolutely love the fact that this book features both traditional portfolio presentations created through fashion sketching as well as more avant-garde design developments generated through draping and textile manipulation. The book is very well organized, featuring most important industry specializations - knitwear, activewear, evening wear, and lingerie - with detailed examples and fashion vocabulary. The text is easy to understand and fun to read. As a huge bonus this book has great menswear, children's wear and accessory sections with illustration styles and portfolio examples. Even a bigger bonus are the author's illustrations which I've been a big fan of since her first book "Fashion Illustration: Inspiration and technique" came out.

I just got this book and it is INCREDIBLE! Having previously bought Kiper’s ‘Fashion Illustration’ book, I was quite intrigued to see how she could top herself and I have to say this book is unbelievably amazing and highly recommended. It provides a unique and beautiful approach to building one’s portfolio, capturing the design process from fashion sketching to complete fabric renderings to ultimately setting up one's portfolio. It targets all facets of the industry including couture gowns, activewear, knits, menswear and even children’s wear. Most importantly, the book showcases a variety of illustration techniques using different mediums catering to types of design styles. It definitely encourages you to explore your creative abilities and challenge your current skills to ultimately creating a spot on portfolio. Its an easy read, very well organized and the visual presentation is surreal! A definite must have!

Great to use as examples of what you can use in your portfolio.

My fiancé is very into fashion design, but she was missing out on a lot of topics because it’s hard to find good resources. That’s why this book is so amazing and helpful with information about fashion design.

I LOVE Anna Kiper's Fashion Illustration: Inspiration and Technique book, so I had to buy this one too. The illustrations and so beautiful and the designs incorporated in the book are classic yet fresh that I feel will keep the book from becoming outdated. It also shows all the varying media in which designers create their work, from traditional to digital. Even if you aren't that interested in getting into the fashion illustration world, I feel the images are so inspirational for any artist.

This Fashion Portfolio Design and Presentation book was given as a gift to my brother-in-law who is an inspiring artist. It is excellent...full of a variety of fashion design and presentation ideas. I would highly recommend this colorful book to fashion and graphic design artist.

Bought the book for my daughter, who is hoping to attend FIT this fall and she really liked the way the book was designed and themed, with the extra effort made by the author to surround the fashion content with splashes of color and other little extra touches that make it more appealing to readers who take notice and appreciate it. The book was purchased used but is in extremely good condition and arrived just a few days after I placed the order.

Libro super ottimo e super creativo. È tutto in lingua inglese. Consiglio

the book is super !

イラストの勉強もデザインの勉強にもとても役立ちます。日本の書籍にはここまで掘り下げておしゃれなものはないです。

This book is beautifully put together and gave me a lot of good ideas for my own portfolio

Amazingly illustrated and well informed by Anna Kiper, one of the best books on Fashion Portfolio skills in the world. Worth buying and so happy! Thank you!