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Lovett Studio · Los Angeles
Lovett Studio

Fashion education,
from working
designers.

Focused, one-on-one portfolio development for students applying to the world's top art and design programs. We work with students whose creative instincts are stronger than their patience for conventional teaching identifying what makes their work distinct, and building from there.

Preparing students for top art and design schools
  • Central Saint Martins
  • Parsons
  • LCF
  • FIT
  • Otis
  • SCAD
  • Pratt
  • RCA
BA Womenswear, Central Saint Martins (CSM)
Sarabande Foundation, Lee McQueen
Founder, LOVETT (Los Angeles)
Vogue, Dazed, I-D, Paper, 032-C
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Free 30-minute initial video call. In-person in Los Angeles or online worldwide. Highly discreet and one-on-one. We take on a limited number of students per cycle. Client list and active student work are kept entirely private. Sessions from $320. Monthly retainers from $7,000.

The problem
Fashion programmes are among the most selective in the world. Their entry requirements are vague by design.
Talent is not the issue Most students applying to art schools make the same mistakes, not because they lack talent, but because they’ve never been shown how the process actually works.
Generic tutors teach the wrong things Most portfolio tutors teach from memory, outdated curricula, or secondhand knowledge. The industry moves. What impressed admissions five years ago is not what impresses them today.
We teach from inside the work Our tutors are working designers, actively producing collections, building a label, and dressing artists. The standard we teach to is the standard we hold ourselves to.
How we work

Most tutors teach
from memory.
We teach from practice.

01
Current by design
We graduated from these programmes recently. We maintain active relationships with students currently inside them. And we run a label that keeps us embedded in the conversation. We know what tutors are responding to right now, not five years ago.
02
Live practice
Every session is structured around the student’s work, refining ideas, building new pieces, and pushing the portfolio forward each week. This isn’t a passive tutoring format. Sessions are hands-on and built around producing work, not just discussing it.
03
Interview preparation
How to talk about your work, answer difficult questions, and present your process with confidence. We push you to articulate what you make and why it matters.
04
The unwritten standard
Entry requirements at the top schools are vague by design. We know what they are actually looking for, from direct experience of these programmes from the inside, and from students currently enrolled who tell us what changed. We pass that knowledge on.
Why most portfolios fail

The mistakes that cost
students their place.

01
No sustained idea
It's easy to experiment and assume it connects. Sustaining an idea from start to finish, with intention, coherence, and payoff, is the real skill. Most portfolios start somewhere and end somewhere else entirely.
02
Too much of one thing
One style of drawing. One medium. One way of seeing. Strong portfolios show a range of developed skills in a structured way: drawing, collage, research, 3D experimentation, and layout. Committees want to see range and control.
03
Too much writing
Text has almost no aesthetic value outside of small annotations. The visuals should speak. When a portfolio leans on words, it signals that the images aren't strong enough to carry the work on their own.
04
Poor formatting
What is a Picasso painting raw and unframed, stretched onto a wall in a stacked apartment? With the right formatting, you can take something ordinary and make it extraordinary. Without it, you can do the opposite.
05
No point of view
CSM and the top schools are looking for a person, a unique set of experiences that define who you are. POV, personality, attitude, ambition. A portfolio without a clear perspective is just a collection of drawings.
06
Weak editing
Showing everything shows nothing. Every page you include is a choice about what you value. The strongest portfolios are brutal edits: only what is necessary, only what is strong. Everything else is noise.
Carson Lovett
Meet the founder
Carson
Lovett
Founder, LOVETT (Los Angeles)

Carson teaches from inside a working fashion label, not from the outside looking in. With a BA in Womenswear from Central Saint Martins, an artists residency at Sarabande: the Alexander Mcqueen Foundation, and an actively running LA label worn by Addison Rae, Tyla, Charli XCX, and Jennie Kim, his perspective is grounded in the industry as it exists today.

His approach to tutoring mirrors his approach to design: honest, rigorous, and allergic to the generic. He works most effectively with students who have struggled to engage with conventional tutors students whose creative instincts are stronger than their patience for conventional instruction. The goal is always the same: getting in, with a point of view that is genuinely their own.

BA Fashion Womenswear, Central Saint Martins 2023
Sarabande Foundation, Artist Residency & Fellowship Lee McQueen
Founder & Creative Director, LOVETT Est. 2022
Entrepreneurship Diploma, Babson College 2022
Featured in Vogue, I-D, Dazed, Paper, 032-C, Metal Press
The work, SS25 through SS26

"The collections you're applying to schools to make. This is the standard we teach to."

LOVETT SS26
LOVETT AW25
LOVETT SS25
Worn by
Addison Rae, Tyla, Charli XCX Sweat Tour, Jennie Kim, Alix Earle, JT, Hearts2Hearts
LOVETT worn by, Tyla, Charli XCX, JT
LOVETT worn by, Jennie Kim, Alix Earle
Selected notes

From students.

A few specific notes from students on the work and where it led.

“Carson pushed my portfolio up to CSM standards.”
Gabrielle, CSM
“Paying for a lesson with him goes much further than an hour. He works behind the scenes between each lesson. I left with a clear portfolio direction and much stronger experimentation, drawing, and portfolio work.”
Rory, CSM
“He showed me the weaknesses in my portfolio and what to do to fix them.”
Jing, Parsons
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