Fashion Portfolio: Create, Curate, Innovate by the authors Tamara Albu & Michelle Nahum-Albright is a practical guide to a forward-reaching portfolio, emphasizing the value of personalized storytelling.

Personal strategy and clear identity are key to successfully presenting yourself as a designer within the fashion industry. Fashion Portfolio: Create, Curate, Innovate‘s focus is in helping designers reach visual and conceptual clarity in representing their potential.

As part of a personal brand strategy, the portfolio becomes a stronger sales tool. This is why the book also explores research, personal branding, presentation materials, online presentation, interview technique and follow up.

The book also includes a section on different fashion professional paths providing invaluable career advice not just for aspiring designers but all those looking to evolve in the fashion industry. Case studies from successful recent graduates working across the world offer further insight on how to make your mark.

Fashion Portfolio: Create, Curate, Innovate considers positioning strategy holistically to include not just the traditional portfolio, but digital portfolios, online platforms, lookbooks, personal branding, communication and interview skills.

Fashion Portfolio: Create, Curate, Innovate includes a section on different fashion professional paths providing invaluable career advice not just for aspiring designers but all those looking to evolve in the fashion industry.

Fashion Portfolio: Create, Curate, Innovate features contributors from around the world, including Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, and case studies from designers based in Paris, London, New York but Beirut, Jakarta, New Dehli, Beijing and Moscow.

Product Details

• Publisher: ‎Laurence King Publishing (March 14, 2023)
• Language: ‎English
• Paperback: ‎200 pages (Kindle Edition is available at Amazon)
• ISBN-10: ‎1913947920
• ISBN-13: ‎978-1913947927
• Item Weight: ‎2.07 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎8.55 x 0.8 x 11 inches

About the Authors

Tamara Albu is an artist, designer, and professor, formerly the director of the AAS Fashion Design program at Parsons School of Design. With over thirty years of experience, she developed and taught a variety of courses including Fashion Portfolio and Fashion Illustration. Her courses, workshops, and seminars have been conducted in many countries, including France, China, and India.

Michelle Nahum-Albright is design director, writer, and professor at Parsons School of Design. She shares her communication skills across a range of courses including visual communication, packaging, and fashion. A former in-house design director for both Elizabeth Arden and Estee Lauder, she holds an MFA in Design and Technology and has taught at New York’s FIT and Pratt Institute.

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