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Amidst the descending mass of Christmas promotions cascading down on me, I saw a lovely room-spray – of all the things to catch my eye! – with an illustration by Kuntzel and Deygas on the bottle. Fashion illustrator antennae twitching, I looked them up. Amidst a fine body of their work, I loved this Youtube […]
MoreIn a reflective mood today, thinking about style and beauty and how extraordinarily difficult it is to inject them into a life-less-able … though maybe it’s life that is the problem rather than the less-able. Who knows? Seems like just the moment to flash up one of Hannah Ensor’s latest illustrations for +Black – based […]
MoreI have just pre-ordered Bold, Beautiful and Damned: The World of 1980’s Fashion Illustrator, Tony Viramontes by Dean Rhys Morgan. If you don’t know his work, check out Blouin ArtInfo: Perhaps no other artist encapsulates the new-wave Zeitgeist of the neon eighties like the late fashion illustrator Tony Viramontes. On August 30th, just in time for […]
MoreI am a magazine junkie, always have been, probably because reading them is a great way to pick up early on indicators of zeitgeist change, even in the digital age where they also provide a forum of interest to springboard away from. I am always refreshed and inspired by the new so dipping into them […]
MoreLove it when designers are into fashion illustration and even more so when they reference it in their work, as seen from Raf Simons for Dior in the F/W 2013/14 Collection. Nice comment and slideshow on Blouin Art Info – Raf Simons Reclaims Christian Dior’s Artistic Past – about this a few days ago. Do […]
MoreIf you know me at all, you know I love fashion illustration. I was thrilled to see this short video on Crane TV on Jo Ratcliffe who is creating animated fashion illustration. Totally love it. Inspirational. What do you think?
MoreWhat is not to love about this fab short video – go to Youtube for more – illustrating the imminent and upcoming Alber Elbaz & Lancome Collaboration? I adore fashion illustration and, in particular, quirky. Alber Elbaz does both in spades. Non-[fashion]-conventionally shaped himself, Alber Elbaz is the creative director of Lanvin and seems to […]
MoreLooking through fashion illustrator Gladys Perint Palmer‘s book, Fashion People, I came across an illustration titled ‘We Three Kings …’ done in 1994, referring to Miyake, Yahamoto and Rei Kawakubo – photo by me attached here: Having huge amounts of Miyake in my own wardrobe from a couple of decades ago, I was driven to […]
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