Fashion Resources

Fashion Blogs:

For some fun reading or informative fashion news, visit these blogs:
www.chicinspector.blogspot.com - I visited her site recently, she is a fashion student who writes about her classwork, and all the latest fashion news.
www.fashionator.ivillage.com -fashion blogger rids the streets of fashion don’ts and helps women make the most of their assets

Fashion Design Directory:

I have visited all of these sites personally, everything on these pages are relevant to fashion illustration or design:

Fashion History:

These sites cover all aspects of fashion history from the 1900’s to 1990:

Arikiart - Who were the flappers? What kind of fashions did they wear? What was their lifestyle? All answered in a brief history of the flappers…
Costume Gallery - Over 10 000 webpages and over 38000 images of costume.
Costumes.org - The manifesto is an educational costume site for researching shows, school papers, and places to buy materials. Numerous how-to pages, images from costume history arranged by date, free patterns and screensavers.
Lindyhopping - Swinging, vintage, clothing 1920/1930/1940 Los Angeles.
Skaro - 20th Century female fashion facts by decade
Vintage Blues - History of fashion from 1900 - 1990
Vintage Vixen - Vintage clothing site with over 5500 mens & women’s items from the Victorian Era to the 1980’s. Great fashion history section 1900’s to 1990.

Designer Directories:

These sites unite their client’s work with the art buying needs of respected companies large and small, matching art with editorial and finding creative solutions for clients needing fashion illustrators or designers. Go and create your own online portfolio:

Art Dept - Online portfolio site.
Deviant Art - where ART meets application! DeviantART aims to provide a place for any artist, photographer, or writer to exhibit and discuss his or her works. It also provides a community of like-minded individuals and is visited by 1.5 million individuals per day who view 35 million pages (per day).
Dexigner- Online illustration portfolios. For fashion Design resource section, go here.
IllustrationMundo -Find an illustrator, get current information about the commercial illustration industry and be a part of the illustration community.
Illustrationweb - Our job is to help find the best illustrator or animator for your needs, and Illustration Ltd offers an outstanding range of selected artists. Join as an artist or a client seeking commissioned works.
MagnetReps - is a leading artist representation and management agency representing a diverse group of stylistically unique award-winning illustrators from across the globe.
Portfolios - the World’s Best Marketplace for Creative Talent. Get your free online portfolio. The site includes portfolios and detailed work profiles of Photographers, Illustrators (fashion), Graphic Designers, Art Directors, Animators, Industrial Designers, Advertising Agencies, Copywriters, Interactive Artists, and Surface Designers.

Fashion Illustrators:

There are absolutely millions of fashion illustrators and designers I could post here, but I’ve undertaken to only list the ones with professional sites and amazing work:

Arturo Elena - His work in fashion illustration has received both national and international recognition and has appeared in prestigious publications.
Bella Pilar - Bella’s whimsical feminine watercolor illustrations take a traditional medium and push it to it to a fresh, pretty new place.
Eduard Erlikh - Clients include: Vogue USA, Vogue Germany, Vogue Sposa Italy, Vogue Japan, Elle Germany, Marie Clair France, Bazaar Japan, Frau Japan, Wallpaper, W, Town &Country, Royalton Hotel NYC, Tiffany, Bloomingdale’s, Limited, Federated, Holt Renfrew, NK Til.
Erica Glasier - Colour, collage, blending, surrealist, symbolist. Beautiful ladies in fantastic, organic landscapes.
Fern Mitchell- Fashion illustration & costume designers network. Network Fashion & Film industry pros, students and novices with lots of sourcing. Talent listings, classifieds for film and fashion pros, schools and networking.
Renie - A professional fashion illustrator and designer based in New York City.
Wacker Eins - illustration portfolio of berlin based illustrator Kerstin Wacker.

Education: Fashion Design:

Fashion Schools
Get the education you need for career you’ve always wanted. Search for online and campus-based fashion schools.
Fashion Schools- Find Fashion design schools and research fashion design degrees programs near you. Explore online fashion design school options too.
Fashion School Finder -Find local fashion design schools. Research fashion design programs near you, or consider an online fashion design school.
FIDM - Offers Associate of Arts, Professional Designation and advanced study degree programs in Fashion Design, Merchandise Marketing, Merchandise Product Development, Textile Design, Visual Communications, Theatre Costume Design, International manufacturing and product development, film & TV costume design, digital media, footwear design & apparell manufacturing management - Tuition $16 500
Parsons - The place for design innovation and entrepreneurship. Faculty comprised of New York City’s most successful artists & designers to a roster of design exhibitions and events. Tuition - $30 000

Illustration Tutorial Sites:

Learning to Draw -Learn to Draw People, Eyes, Hands, Nudes and much more. Learning to Draw a Torso, Face, Mouth or Figure has never been easier!

Fashion Guides:

Fashion Mission -The fashion style guide to all things fashion

Fashion Forums

I’ve struggled for years to find good relevant sites based on only fashion illustration or design, the rest all focus on talking about their outfits for the weekend:

Fashion Spot - The fashion spot is a fashion industry forum where fashion influencers meet to discuss fashion design, designer’s collections, models and fashion trends.
Fashion Forums - This is a forum for all kinds of fashion styles and trends, fashion followers and fashion designers love this site.