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.