May 13, 2020 • 5 min read
When I decided to go for fashion designing, I wanted to understand what I had to know or do to get into fashion schools.
I researched on application requirements of different design schools, most of them asked for a portfolio. Portfolio requirements of each school varied but most of them had asked for a Moodboard (schools like FIT New York, Parsons school of design, etc).
I had never heard of this term before seeing it as a portfolio requirement. Presently I’m pursuing a pre-college course from Parsons, Paris, where was asked to make a Moodboard for any brand as an assignment.
It is a concept that I wasn’t very familiar with other than what the word itself suggests. Researching about Moodboards, I found that it is like a collage that contains images, text, etc that can be used as a tool to communicate your thoughts and feelings about an idea.
For example, if I want to describe a brand as a whole then I would have to talk about its founders, products, specialty, and ideas they stand for.
This elaborate process could be made much simpler by just showing a Moodboard of the brand because it would contain all of the above mentioned in a picturesque form, which is easier to comprehend.
A Moodboard can convey the entire idea behind a brand at one glance.
Similarly in a portfolio, a Moodboard plays the role of giving identity to your work. By identity, I mean it explains based on what your fashion line is inspired by like nature, city, cultures, or anything that inspires you.
It effectively communicates the source of inspiration for your designs of the fashion line.
For example, many fashion lines are inspired by the season of the year like spring, summer, fall and winter. The clothes are designed and categorized according to the season in which they are worn in.