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Handmade fashion design portfolio website

Karli O'Connell's portfolio website pairs fashion design with technical design and a handmade, sustainable small business. The homepage welcomes visitors and links straight to her projects and fashion week work.

An approachable about section and an Instagram-led shop give the site a personal, current feel.

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The layout is clean and project-led, with a welcoming homepage that routes visitors to collections, Omaha and Kansas City Fashion Week work and an about page. Photography carries the page.

It reads as an honest, growing fashion design portfolio from an emerging designer.

The fashion designer behind the portfolio website

Karli O'Connell is a fashion design and digital marketing student at Lindenwood University who runs the handmade, sustainable label SKR.fashions. She has shown work at Omaha and Kansas City Fashion Week.

Her portfolio connects student work, runway shows and a real small business in one place.

Who this website is a good example for

  • Student designers with a side label. Karli links her coursework to a real brand, a useful model for students already selling.

  • Handmade and sustainable makers. The site foregrounds handmade, responsible production as part of the story.

  • Emerging designers showing runway work. Fashion week projects get their own space, helping early-career designers prove momentum.

Fashion portfolio website design tips

  • Connect school and business. Showing coursework next to a real label makes an emerging portfolio feel credible.

  • Highlight runway moments. Dedicated fashion week pages give early work a professional frame.

  • Keep the about page personal. Karli's friendly bio makes the site relatable and memorable.

  • Link your shop and socials. Pointing visitors to Instagram and your shop turns a portfolio into a sales channel.

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