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Fashion Illustration Vocabulary
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Haute Couture
Exquisite, custom-fitted high fashion design that's often handmade from high-quality, expensive materials, and displayed through detailed illustrations.
Fashion Illustration
An artistic interpretation and visual representation of clothing designs and concepts, which emphasizes style and trends.
Stylization
Artistic practices which represent objects in a non-literal but often more aesthetic and perceptually clearer manner.
Draping
The method of positioning and pinning fabric on a dress form to develop the structure of a garment design.
Ensemble
A complete outfit of clothing and accessories, often illustrated together to showcase how the pieces coordinate.
Spec Sheet
A document that provides detailed information about a garment's construction, fabrics, trims, and measurements for production.
Line Sheet
A sales tool used by designers and sales reps, showcasing the items available for order with their details like style numbers and wholesale prices.
Rendering
The process of shading and coloring fashion illustrations to represent fabrics, patterns, textures, and details realistically.
Texture
The surface look and feel of a garment, conveyed in fashion illustrations through shading and pattern techniques.
Gouache
An opaque watercolor paint used to create vibrant illustrations with solid color coverage and a matte finish.
Storyboard
A visual planning tool used to pre-visualize the fashion collection including the flow of outfits, color story, and materials.
Fashion Portfolio
A curated collection of an artist or designer's work, showcasing their skills, aesthetic, and design philosophy.
Schematic
A simplified graphical representation of an element or structure in fashion design, highlighting key components and their relationships.
Callout
Annotations on fashion illustrations that detail the components and features of the design for clearer communication.
Croquis
A quick sketch of a fashion figure used as a template for sketching apparel designs. Serves as the base outline to display garments in a consistent manner.
Flat Drawing
A detailed, flat illustration of a garment, accurately depicting its construction without a figure; used for technical purposes.
Silhouette
The outline or general shape of a garment or figure; it serves to convey the overall form of the fashion design.
Mood Board
A collection of images, materials, colors, and pieces of text intended to evoke or project a particular style or concept.
Fashion Figure
An idealized human figure used in fashion illustration, usually elongated to better display clothes.
Lookbook
A publication consisting of photographs that display a fashion designer's new collection, often using both illustrations and photography.
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