Fashion Illustrators

David Downton

• David Downton is one of the worlds leading fashion illustrator and artist, he required this reputation in the last decade. 
• In his Biography it says "His classically elegant, yet highly contemporary images have been a key factor in the revival of interest in the tradition of fashion illustration and David is a worthy successor to the great artists in his field including Gruau, Eric and Antonio."
• David Downton attended Paris Haute Couture show for more than a decade.
• Erin O'Connor, Lily Cole, Linda Evangelista and Carmen Dell'Orfice are all models that are included in his portfolio.
• His illistartions have appeared in newspapers and magazines all around the world.
• Master's of Fashion Illustration is his book which was released on the 2010.

Steven Stipelman

• Steven Stipelman was born in New York in 1944. 
• Steven Stipelman is now a successful freelance illustrator. 
• He has illustrated the creations of fashion designers such as Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, Bill Blass, Oscar de la Renta and many others.

Said by Steven Stipelman

• "Fashion drawing is a fantasy,"
• "They are conveying a mood, a feeling and attitude. It's supposed to make you feel like you want the attitude of this person, not like you're going on a diet so you can look like this person."

Amelie Hegardt

• Her clients include Vogue Japan, Mac Cosmetics, Sephora and Harrods.
• Amelie Hegardt focuses on the fashion and beauty industry. 
• Amelie is from Sweden but has lived and worked in Milan, Paris, Beijing and New York.
• The use of bright colours creates a exciting and interesting illistration to look at. The colours complement each other and blend well together.
• Amelie Hegardt mainly uses inks and water colour to create her illistration and this makes the colours flow into each other and creates interesting effects.  
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Issey Miyake 

• Issey Miyake was born 22 April 1938 and  is a Japanese fashion designer. 
• He is known for his technology-driven clothing designs, exhibitions and fragrances.
• I wanted to look at Issey Miyake's work becuase I was thinking of using paper to make some small dresses. 
• Paper can create many different textures and shapes and this is why I wanted to look at some textures used by different fashion designers.
• I really like the depth the dress below creates because of the use of the layers. 
• When creating some of my own dresses I will incorporate the layers because it creates shadows, depth and shape. 
• The dress below is made up of many straight edges and this creates a layered, busy design. 

Louise Goldin 

• Louise Goldin is based in London. 
• Louise studied at Central Saint Martins for seven years (Foundation, BA and MA). 
• She worked as the head designer at Tereza Santos in Brazil. 
• She mainly designs knitwear but she has done a series of paper dresses.
• Her paper dresses consist of a lot of layers and this creates different shapes within the dress. The second image below I took inspiration from for one of my own paper dresses. I used a lot of layers and I believe it to be quit affective. 
• There are many forms paper can create and within my series of dresses I have tried to explore as many as I could. 
• The once that work the best, in my opinion are the dresses with many layers or many parts that make it up.

Graphic Images

Shape, Line and Reflection

Leonid Afremov

Leonid Afremov

Prints that Link to my Project

Typology

Photographers

Bernd and Hilla Becher 

• Bernhard Becher was born in German on the 20th August 1931, and Hilla Becher was born September 2, 1934. 
• They were German conceptual artists and photographers working as a collaborative duo. They are best known for their extensive series of photographic images, or typologies, of industrial buildings and structures, often organised in grids.
• Most of the images they produce are in black and white and this makes the individual images look more similar and also makes the viewer focus more on the lines and shapes of the objects. 
• I like the idea of these series because not many images are organised and I like that about the collections. 
• In response to there work I have created a typology of some of the items in my cabinet of curiosity. I edited the images so they all looked the same size and so they were black and white.

Coal Bunkers, 1974





















Cooling Towers, Ruhr District, 1983
















Water Tower, German, 1968-1972
















Karl Blossfeldt

• Karl Blossfeldt was born in 1865 and died 1932. 
• He was a German photographer, sculptor, teacher, and artist who was based in Berlin.
• He is best known for his close-up photographs of plants and living things, which were published in 1929.
• I love the sharpness of these images and the lighting used to create these images. 
• I think black and white really suits the images because it highlights the veins in the plants more and creates more of a contrast to the background. This also shows the shape better.
• I like that the plants take up the how composition because it looks more busy even through some of the subjects are simply looking. 
• When looking at Robert Mapplethorpes lilies I looked back at Karl Blossfeldt work because I wanted to take some black and white roses and wanted to look at if the background should be in black or white.