Fashion illustration
Fashion illustration is the visual depiction of clothing and accessories, often emphasizing stylized proportions, pose, fabric, and garment details.
Fashion figure: A stylized human figure used to display clothing designs, often with elongated proportions. Its proportions establish the distinctive silhouette commonly used in fashion illustration.
Fashion design: The process of developing clothing and accessory concepts, forms, and specifications. Fashion illustration is one way designers develop and communicate those concepts.
Fashion plate: An illustrated image of clothing, historically published to show fashionable dress. Fashion plates helped establish illustration as a medium for circulating clothing styles.
Fashion photography: Photography that presents clothing, accessories, and fashion through constructed images. Photography records garments on models, while illustration can exaggerate or reimagine them.
Gesture drawing: A quick drawing that captures a subject’s movement, weight, and overall action. A clear gesture gives illustrated clothing a sense of movement and fit.
Fashion editorial: Fashion imagery created for editorial storytelling in magazines and other publications. Illustrations can interpret fashion stories when photography is unsuitable or unwanted.
Journal des dames et des modes: A French fashion periodical published in Paris from 1797 to 1839. Its plates made contemporary dress visible to readers through repeated illustration.
Fashion sketch: A quick drawing that explores a clothing design before it is fully developed. A fashion sketch is often preliminary, while an illustration may be a finished presentation.
Croquis: A lightly drawn figure template used as a foundation for fashion sketches. Illustrators use croquis to develop garment designs over a consistent figure.
Fashion advertising: Promotional communication used to market clothing, accessories, and fashion brands. Illustration gives campaigns a distinctive visual language beyond product photography.