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How to Make a Fashion Portfolio if You Are a Kid

There is no reason to wait to work on your future dreams. Fashion designer Cecilia Cassini is only 10 years old with her own label and website! Fashion applies to people of all ages and as Cecilia has shown, children can take on a serious interest in the fashion industry at a young age. Children who spend their days designing clothing lines for paper dolls or sketching the clothes they wish they could wear or put into outfits, may be on their way to a fashion career. Children interested in fashion design can get a head start by starting their fashion portfolio early. Fashion portfolios improve with time from experience and by increased content designers choose to include.

Things You'll Need

Book with sleeved pages
Fashion sketches (your own work)
Camera or fashion photographs (your own work)
Professional fashion photos (optional)

Instructions

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  Purchase a book with sleeved pages where you can enter and display your work. Sleeved pages will help you keep your work organized, provide an easy way to display your work and can easily be updated as you grow as a fashion designer.
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  Review your fashion sketches and choose the ones you think are your best work. Ask peers or adults for feedback on your sketches and see if others agree with your selection. Consider your main fashion interests. If you are interested in designing children's clothing or a certain genre of women's fashion, select sketches that show your talent in this area.
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  Photograph outfits you put together or make. Try to make them look as professional as you can. Select the best photographs and get them printed large enough to fill a sleeve.
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  Collect fashion photos from magazines, online or other sources that inspire you. While these are not your own work, they can fill in blank pages of your portfolio while you build your own work. Do not claim them as your work if someone asks about them, instead explain what you like about the photos and why you chose them from all the other fashion photos available. Consider labeling items in the photo that you like and writing why you like them. They will show other people your taste and eye for fashion.
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  Organize your portfolio. Come up with a theme and combine your selected items, putting them into the sleeves of your portfolio. Consider beginning with your most recent work and going back to your oldest work, to show your progression. Or choose a theme such as springtime in Los Angeles and try to tell a story with your work.
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  Frequently re-evaluate your portfolio and improve it's quality. If submitting your portfolio professionally, remove any work that is not directly yours. Also arrange your portfolio for each professional showing, to make sure it includes work that the viewer is most interested in seeing.
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  Scan your portfolio pages to make a digital portfolio. Some organizations or businesses want digital copies of portfolios.

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