Fashion Designers and Textile Artists

Fashion designers, pattern cutters, stylists and textile artists list themselves here, and each portfolio is put together by the person who made the work. Expect finished collections next to the flat patterns, toiles and fittings that produced them. Browsing is open to anyone, and contact details sit on each profile.

The work splits roughly three ways: people who design, people who cut and grade, and people who make cloth. A pattern cutter's portfolio reads differently from a designer's. It holds blocks, toiles in calico, grading across sizes, and the corrections pencilled onto a fitting. Textile artists post weaving, natural dye, screen print, knit and embroidery.

Anyone can search the directory without an account, open a profile and read its contact tab, where the artist says how they want to be approached. Approaches happen off the site, direct to the person. Sharing a profile is the part that needs an account, and in this trade it is what actually happens: a good pattern cutter travels from one workroom to the next by name.

Garments are hard to photograph honestly, so the better portfolios mix formats: stills on a stand, video of the same piece moving on a body, and rich text for fabric, sizing and construction notes. Every category on British Artists takes image, video, audio and text, so runway footage and a scanned pattern sheet can sit in one album.