14 Inspiring Model & Stylist Portfolios

So you wanna be on top?

Standing out to clients and collaborators in a sea of competition is essential to any stylist, model, makeup artist, or fashion photographer. In a business where shifting trends hit quickly, a compelling, easily refreshed, professional portfolio that represents your range, versatility, and individuality is a must.

We’ve narrowed in on some amazing model and stylist portfolios to give you some inspiration when designing and curating your own professional website. Working all over the world, and published in major publications, these models and stylists have created stunning online portfolios using Format as a website builder, each reflecting their unique looks—from alternative and edgy to polished and commercial.

Check out some of our best portfolio templates by profession.

Rorie Yum

Using Format’s Horizon Left theme, Yum has curated a compelling sequence of images, using images that compliment and others that contrast perfectly to maintain interest and demonstrates their incredible range. Having worked as a creative, it’s clear from this excellent site design that Yum collaborates and conceptualizes in all aspects of work, having a strong vision for their work.

The subtle but easy to navigate left-hand navigation follows along the horizontal scroll through images, allowing instant navigation to a new category, or consistent reminder of which the viewer is on currently. The choice of black background closes down focus to the predominantly dark images. 

This design conveys High Fashion, in total keeping with Yum’s work.

Naomi Babalola

The Amazon template gives stylist Naomi Babaloa maximum impact in three columns of large images. Hitting the viewer with the range of her bold aesthetic. This is also a great example of curation, not only in image selection, but their pairing and arrangement; there’s a dynamism in the contrasts and flow of images. If you consider you may have only 10 seconds to make an impression, Babalola has made those seconds count.

Barbara Velez

Using Peak as a template, stylist Barbara Velez achieves a beautifully refined, elegant portfolio. The mix of monochrome and color are perfectly balanced to move the eye down the page. Making use of studio and landscape images to illustrate how they style against varied location. Isolation of images on click-through leaves them overlapping in context with the background thumbnails overlaid by white transparency. Gorgeous!

Cintia Laina

Sleek, with grey background and horizontal scroll reminiscent of familiar image-editing interfaces, the Reel template gives the feel of proofing your best work. Paris-based fashion stylist Cynthia Laina uses this aesthetic to support her outstanding editorial selections. This is truly a portfolio that feels perfectly at home in this template. The left hand overlay navigation is a contemporary element that makes for an elegant stylistic segmentation of content.

Lauren Annette

Creating a simple, approachable commercial acting and modeling portfolio, Lauren Annette has used Amazon to showcase her range of looks and clearly convey the kind of work she’s looking for. Displaying an arrangement of large thumbnails in a staggered grid. This flowing scroll-down design with animated loading is a gentle approach that definitely aligns to Annette’s vibe.

Priscilia Van B

What a difference a logo, font and small adjustments make–while using the same Amazon template, Berlin-based model Priscilia Van B has served attitude in every customization. Used for its simplicity of layout, but still offering maximum visibility of range by staggering larger thumbnails–she customized the site padding to favour her 2:3 aspect ratios, ensuring her images can be read fully. Setting them to load immediately, with darkened overlay on hover. An edgy, editorial portfolio for a fearless model.

Kimmy Lola Cunningham

Multi-hypenate Model, stylist, and video artist Kimmy Lola Cunningham uses the Mica template for her portfolio, allowing for big, bold two column stacks of images with a top navigation that scrolls through. Cunningham pairs images perfectly to drive the viewer through her portfolio to see more, blending close up looks with editorial, site-based modelling concepts, colour and monochrome.

Luca Falcioni

Some templates speak strongly to certain professions because they were designed with them in mind! Amazon’s columns allow stylists like Falcioni to demonstrate the breadth and pedigree of their work history. Here, pages of magazine covers, spreads and editorials communicate Falcioni’s talent and bonafides. I especially enjoy the customization of the padding and margins between pages to best suit the images.

Mélanie Guille

A stylist focused on avant garde hair and beauty looks, Guille’s creative collaborations with models and photographers have crossed the pages of ELLE, Vogue Italia, Harpar’s Bazaar, and many more. With a concept that perfectly pairs the Amazon portfolio template with a bold splash page to make for a design as cool as Guille’s work and completely different than those above. The curation of the Recent Work page is perfect and concise, while the previous projects really let the viewer dive into her career and aesthetic.

Shai’La Yvonne

Working from San Francisco and Los Angeles, Shai’La Yvonne is a DJ and model. Starting with a splash page to better direct the viewer, Yvonne starts strong in establishing herself as multi-talented. Like Cunningham’s use of Mica, the template here gives Yvonne’s bold images the right scale and context as color and pose create dynamic pairings that pull viewers deeper into her extensive, jack-of-all-trades portfolio.
Format Theme: Mica

Olga Kasma

Using Fabric, one of the most versatile, editorial themes on Format, perfect for stylists with varied but complimentary work. Kasma makes brilliant use of the collaging effect of navigation; clicking through galleries produces an overlap and stack effect that in and of itself, produces new work in this artful rearrangement. Kasma’s portfolio is a stunning example of what can be done with your own design using this template.

Jessie Andrews

Format’s Horizon theme gives a beautiful scrolling narrative to model Jessie Andrews’ portfolio. She has been featured in fashion mags like Dazed and Paper, and has appeared in a slew of American Apparel ads. Not just killing it as a model, Andrews is also a photographer, designer and runs her own jewelry line, Bagatiba as well as a swimsuit brand called Basic Swim. Andrew’s customizations give an edge to her beautifully executed minimalist portfolio. 

Karissa

In contrast to Andrews, model Karissa’s use of Horizon veers more classic in design. Her choices in customization with typeface and padding allow the horizontal scroll to take up more of the page. Her curation of images goes from objective at a distance to close and intimate, creating a visual ebb and flow to the content that makes the viewer wish to see the wave through the distance.

Jaenna Wessling

Fashion and beauty model Jaenna Wessling uses the Gloss template with a prominent vertical navigation on the left, which becomes more subtle, scrolling through the horizontal galleries. For those who love the Mica theme but prefer this navigation and gallery orientation, this makes a beautifully immersive portfolio. With images taking up the entire top to bottom of the page, adding no additional vertical padding, Wessling’s images command all attention. The selections additionally show maximum range from the start, while still expanding on series as the gallery continues. A great example of using as many images you like, as long as you start and end strong.

Silvia Campagna

Art director and stylist Silvia Campagna immerses the viewer with a powerful video montage splash page. Then, once she has your attention, uses the Halogen portfolio to create a quieter minimalist narrative of work, reliant on strong, high-fashion pairings. The viewer clicks through to navigate, emulating the turn of a page, like a traditional model’s book. This is so effective down to Campagna’s sheer talent. She also makes use of workflow tools to deliver galleries, with the Commercial section as a protected portal for clients, this is a great option for any shared project.

How To Write Your Model Bio

If you’ve checked out these portfolio website models, you’ll have observed the common elements of a model/stylist portfolio. However, one piece we see confusion over is your bio and cv. Here are some key takeaways:

• Highlight top achievements first. This is your hook and speaks to your accomplishments. As you grow more experienced, you can cut out any past experience that doesn’t match up to where you are and where you want to go
• Keep your tone professional. While injecting personality into your writing is beneficial, it’s essential that potential clients perceive you as a dependable professional. Proper spelling, grammar, and sentence structure are a must.
• Keep project descriptions concise
• Credit Collaborators: Your photographers, stylists, makeup artists, etc.
  

For a detailed step-by-step on writing a Bio/About page, check out our guide HERE

Inspired To Create Your Own Model Portfolio?

Putting together a captivating portfolio that gets you the professional attention that you deserve can take time, and research. We hope the above inspirational portfolios and examples of image-curation give you a starting point in your building journey.

If you want more of our tips on building modeling portfolios, check out our guide on modeling portfolio websites and putting together a modeling comp card. If you have your images, you’re ready to get started with creating your no-coding required cutting-edge model portfolio site.