Turn flat garment sketches into on-model editorial shots

Draw the flats

Draw each piece flat and front-on, the way a tech pack does: outline, seams, pockets, buttons, straps. Beside it write what it is and what it is made of, like "slip dress, satin, black, midi, thin straps" or "cropped jacket, denim, oversized, big patch pockets".

Add a colour swatch if you can: a filled square of the main colour. Photograph the sheet straight on in even light.

Have Claude write a garment spec for each piece

A garment spec is one line: fit, colour, fabric, garment type and the details that make it yours. In the reel the dress became "a black satin slip midi dress with thin straps" and the bag "a structured green leather top-handle bag with a gold clasp".

You will paste these lines word for word into every image that shows that piece, including the final runway shot. That repetition is what keeps the pieces recognisable from picture to picture.

Here is a photo of my flat sketches. For each piece write one garment spec line an image model can draw: fit, colour, fabric, garment type and the visible details (pockets, straps, clasp, panels, sole). Use only what I drew or wrote; if something is unclear, ask. No brand names. Under 20 words each.

Style the rest of the outfit

A jacket on its own needs something under it. Let Claude choose plain supporting pieces that do not compete with yours: the reel put the denim jacket over "a white t-shirt and wide cream trousers" and the bag with "a beige trench coat".

Ask Claude to mark which pieces are yours and which are styling, so nobody mistakes one for the other.

Write one editorial prompt per piece

Frame each image to show the piece: full body for a dress or jacket, close on the feet from a low angle for shoes, cropped at the waist for a bag.

Each prompt names the shot, the model, the garment spec word for word, the styling, the location and the light, and ends with the words that keep text and logos out.

For each piece write one image prompt: "[Full body fashion photograph / Fashion photograph close on a model's feet / Fashion editorial photograph cropped at the waist] of a model wearing [garment spec, word for word] [styling pieces], [pose], [location], [light], editorial, no text, no letters, no logos, unbranded". Choose the framing that shows the piece best. Vary the locations. Vertical 9:16 frame. Never name a real model, designer or brand.

Generate and check for lettering

Run each prompt at 9:16. We used Z Image Turbo through the Higgsfield API (about $0.015 a picture), but Nano Banana, FLUX or Midjourney take the same prompts.

Look closely at every picture for letters and logos. Early prompts that said "magazine" came back with fake magazine lettering, and a sneaker grew a real brand's logo. Adding "no text, no letters, no logos, unbranded" fixed it. The final sneaker prompt also spells its panels out as "smooth plain red suede", leaving nothing for a logo to fill.

Put the full look on the runway

The last image puts every piece on one model on a catwalk. The prompt is simply all the garment specs in a row, from top to toe, with the bag last.

Now write the finale: "Runway photograph of a model walking a catwalk wearing [every garment spec, top to toe], carrying [the bag spec], blurred audience, fashion show lighting, full body, no text, no letters, no logos".

Know how close it gets

Each image is made from words, so a piece matches your flat by description, not stitch for stitch. Pocket shapes, hem lengths and hardware can shift between pictures. Make two or three of each and keep the closest.

If you need an exact match, an image-editing model such as Nano Banana can take your sketch as a reference image as well as the prompt. We did not use that for the reel.