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Fashion Poses

A directed pose library for on-model product and apparel shots. 103 poses, each tagged on seven fields, so the model gets an actual brief instead of "a person holding this."

Lock the model → pick the pose → one call per shot → check the tells → ship.

Three shots, one locked model
Chest-up shot
Chest-up · KM/S09. Ship this one. Label crisp and accurate, both hands anatomically correct with real compression against the glass.
Three-quarter shot
Three-quarter · KM/S06. Best for paid social. The turn gives it more energy than a straight-on shot. Label and hand both clean.
Full body shot
Full body · KM/S01. Failed QC. Same prompt, same product reference. The bottle sits too small in frame, so the label stopped reproducing and started getting paraphrased. It reads "IMMUNES."

Same identity paragraph, same real product cutout, one call per pose. The third one is left in on purpose: it is where the rule below came from.

The failure that became a rule

A held product has a minimum size

Above it, the label reconstructs faithfully from your reference image. Below it, the model paraphrases it into mush. The only variable between the clean shots and the broken one was how large the bottle sat in frame.

So: three-quarter length or tighter

If the label has to read, do not shoot full body. And if you genuinely need a full-body shot, composite the product in post rather than re-rolling. The model is not going to hold a small label, however many attempts you buy.

The pose grammar

Every pose is seven fields. Written into the prompt in this order, because framing stated late produces a full body shot captioned "close-up," and gaze stated early gets overwritten into a dead-centre stare.

FieldControlsValues
Genderthe modelMale / Female
Agethe modelbracket, e.g. Young adult (25-32)
Framingthe cropFull body / Three-quarter / Waist-up / Chest-up / Close-up
Posturethe physical actionStanding / Walking / Seated / Leaning / Crouching / Kneeling / Lying / Jumping / Crawling
Orientationbody and face vs cameraFrontal / Three-quarter / Profile / Back to camera
Placementposition in frameCentered / Off-center
Gazewhere the eyes goDirect / Averted / Away / Over the shoulder / Candid / Eyes closed
Two tiers, two jobs

Standard is the PDP grid

Front, three-quarter, profile, back, seated, plus the waist-up crops. Clean, repeatable, boring on purpose. This set has to be complete and consistent, because a shopper scrolls it as a group and notices when one shot is a different person.

Editorial is hero and ad

Crouches, leans into negative space, reach-to-lens, over-the-shoulder, motion. These stop a scroll and they are not grid shots. One or two per launch, not twenty.

Lock the model before the poses

One identity, generated once, reused verbatim in every prompt alongside the product reference. Identity drift is what makes a set unusable, and it is invisible until you view the shots as a grid.

Seven tells, checked before delivery

Hands first, every time. Then fabric that ignores gravity, feet with no contact shadow, impossible symmetry, garbled text, the same stare in every shot, and identity bleed across the set.

Browse the library

Filter 103 poses by model, tier, framing, posture, orientation, placement and gaze. Click to build a shot list, then copy a ready-made spec for every shot in it.

Open the pose picker → ↓ Download the skill View source on GitHub →
# install (Claude Code)
unzip fashion-poses-skill.zip -d ~/.claude/skills/fashion-poses
# then set your key
export OPENAI_API_KEY="..."  # gpt-image-2 generates the shots
Credit
The pose taxonomy and the 103-pose set are adapted from Pletor.ai's publicly published Teach fashion poses to AI library by Raphael Guilhem. The library is theirs and it is good, so go and look at the original. What is different here is how it runs: theirs is a set of hosted agents plus an MCP on their platform, this one is a Claude skill running on gpt-image-2 with no third-party wrapper. The identity lock, the seven on-model tells, the minors guidance and the prompt grammar are additions.