Fashion Illustration

I am fascinated by fashion as an art form. I enjoy practicing art by exploring colors, textiles and the figure through the eyes of designers who create intriguing fashion. Drawing Cabaret Couture offers themed life drawing sessions featuring a fun variety of visual experiences, textiles and designs. I draw from their online live sessions or videos, then choose my favorite poses and make watercolor or oil pastel illustrations on paper. I have also done live fashion drawings at events (David Sutherland Showroom presents Fortuny Fabrics and Basshead Society presents Xtreme Body Painting Music & Art Exhibition). My fashion illustration work has been published in Lazin UK May 2021 art special edition "Creativity on Steroids", Goldfoil Magazine July 2021 Heatwave issue 09, Lazin UK July 2021 Beyond the Path Special A-rt Issue, Goldfoil Magazine August 2021 Glitch issue 10, Goldfoil Magazine September 2021 Alienation issue 11, Goldfoil Magazine October 2021 Turning 1 issue 12, Lazin UK October 2021 Art and Fashion, Goldfoil Magazine, Illuminated November 2021, and TopPosters December 2021.

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2021 The 4th FIDA Awards Winner: Classical

"Fashion illustration today has few rules. There is great energy and excitement and a palpable surge in interest everywhere. Social media has democratised the process and levelled the playing field (while not always raising standards)
But some things never change. Drawing is still paramount and at the heart of every successful image."
Master Illustrator David Downton

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Ella Douglas

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Ella Douglas plays with the boundary between Art and Fashion, merging her love of performance art within her work. Ella Douglas uses her artworks to showcase narratives of social and political change.

Maximillian Raynor

Max Raynor focuses on historical details in both menswear and womenswear. Often using literary characters and classical art as inspiration for his work, he previously interned with the costume designer Grace Snell and has also worked in the John Smedley Knitwear archives cataloguing historical garments.

Suffragettes

Inspired by one of the greatest British fashion designers- DAME VIVIENNE WESTWOOD- J’ADORE LA VIE revolutionizes the Can-Can in collaboration with Karolina Saunders for The Alternative Hair Show. Representing one of Britain's most recognizable youth tribes, the J’ADORE mob recreate the 70s Punk movement bursting onto the stage with mohawks, Westwood-inspired tartan prints and hand painted couture by The House Of Sheldon Hall. With a whole load of attitude join the rebellion with high kicks, drop splits and gripping aerial chains & contortion. Combined with power slogans in favor of justice, freedom and women empowerment The unconventional activist, Vivienne Westwood and J’ADORE La Vie evoke endless adjectives and performance whilst embodying the true punk,
and great British spirit!
See this finale act performed LIVE on stage at Proud Embankment starring J’adore La Vie. Toyah Willcox, Denise Van Outen & Duncan James join the world's nest cabaret, circus and burlesque stars. https://proudcabaret.com

Anne Veck

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Avant Garde hairdresser, Anne Veck says ‘It has almost been 2 years since the coronavirus began spreading around the world, plunging us into a ‘new normal’ of social-distancing, variations on lockdowns and endless cancelled events. The restrictions placed on people across the world have been unprecedented. This has been compared with the Spanish Flu of 1918 and now, academics suggest that our lives following Covid-19 may mirror those of people in the 1920s. The Roaring 20's was an era of exuberance and popular culture. This was a time where people began to relax and let loose, after the deprivation of the war.

Saranya

Saranya created this collection inspired by similarities from the biography of exotic dancer, Mata Hari, and the dance career of Saranya's own mother. Both of these women experienced dramatic change in their lives post emigrating to Britain. Saranya's mother was a classical south Asian dancer in her early twenties and performed on world-class stages across South Asia. When she got married and moved to the UK, her career met a dramatic end and she became a housewife. On the contrary Mata Hari, who was a Dutch exotic dancer and courtesan, ended up leaving her career to become a spy for Germany in World War I. Although ultimately, they lead very different lives on the surface, Saranya sees many shared strengths and qualities between both these women. ‘In this project, I speculate that my mother had, like Mata Hari, became a woman of adventure and mystery with the essence of the extraordinary. In my fantasy collection, I attempt to challenge the stigma in anglo-asain communities that has expected a spouse to settle.

Clara Pinto

Embellishments have great significance in Clara Pinto's design, and she constantly finds herself searching for vintage rare sequins and beads. Every piece is filled with a unique story and irreplicable aesthetic. (headdress: Highgate Flowers)

Liz Marine

Liz Marine Shin says, "The concept originated from dreams that I was having during the lockdown period. I started interpreting some of these as the significance of my mother, looking more into my heritage, and her as the reference to my work. How my mother would dress me as a child would come into play, how much we cherish the old times, having no worry about what to wear and comfortability. Other research includes recreation of silhouettes from my favourite childhood movies, castle in the sky. My collection references my childhood memories, and clothes I would wear to the inspiration of the Korean reverberated Hanbok of my mothers, to the present time where I used my favourite jacket in my wardrobe as the reference to one of the looks. ‘PLEASE DON’T SQUEEZE ME’, a reference to all the people who would always want to touch or squeeze me without permission."

Polosophia

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Polosophia is a seasonless brand and is not tied to trends, these are the garments created to last. Each collection is a chapter of its own and part of an overarching plot line, tied together to create an intelligent wardrobe of the daring.

Genieve Couture

Genieve Vasconcelos graduated in 2019, BA Fashion Design, at London College of Fashion, she is the Founder and Designer of Genieve Couture, a sustainable Couture House. A strong believer in zero waste and handmade clothes. Genieve is committed to developing new techniques to practice zero waste and increase the active life-cycle of clothing.

Lorena Pipenco

Lorena Pipenco says, "My concept stems from the story of my grandmother's journey to this country. She worked hard as a seamstress, and in the little spare time she had, made beautiful handmade scarves from the scraps she would find around
the workplace."

Tuncer Tonun

Tuncer Tonun from ‘The Birth Of The Goddess’; a powerful collection using vetch and dry trees to make up the collection themed around climate change, forest fires and mother nature. "The carnage in the Kaz Mountains and the fires in Izmir also inspired me. In this collection, I equated women and nature. Tuncer says, I believe that both have power and power to destroy. I used mostly poison green and earth tones in my designs. The power of nature dominates with poison green and the earth and green are integrated. Nature shows a great awakening to mother earth. If you don’t show enough love to women and nature, she may suffocate you with hatred. If we don’t take our hands off of nature, she will avenge us one day."

Celine Kwan

Celine Kwan says, "My goal is to produce transformative clothing that is functional in unexpected and humorous ways, whether it is being worn to an elegant dinner party or proudly showcased in a living room. Garments that dramatically transform, inflate and change shape to create a sense of drama will challenge the norms of functionality in clothing and will allow me to capture the beautiful shapes of furniture that I admire so much."

Ming Lim

‘It was all about intimacy—the idea of touch and the desire to touch. I reflected upon how society today and how COVID has changed something like the human nature of touch.’ MING LIM

Gregory Ojakpe

Gregory Ojakpe creates surreal fashion. This look came from samples that were sculptural and biomorphic in form. The combination of woven cords into elastomeric creates spontaneous undulating curved shapes on the surface of the fabric.

Shaun Jordan

Shaun Jordanwww.instagram.com/modernwannabe/ created this piece for The Cristobal Balenciaga Project, a Central Saint Martins collaboration project with the Official Balenciaga museum (Museo Balenciaga). Shaun's designs question menswear silhouettes by juxtaposing female nuances; the silhouette informed by the mountainous landscape of Getaria, Spain (birthplace of Cristobal Balenciaga) with lenticular lines replicating the concept of topography.

David Brunnbauer

David Brunnbauer explains his work, “ I grew up in a small village in the Austrian Alps – a scenic beauty with mountains, lakes and fields of flowers contrasted by the conservative, narrow-minded villagers. My work focuses a lot on the parallels between the two; the struggle and conflicts of certain ideals. I question beauty, because I have been questioned and scrutinized myself, which always made me feel like “the witch in the village”. This fragile relationship between repression but at the same time resisting against a system, is the core motivation of the collection. Instead of making conventional ‘pretty’ garments, I rather wanted to create obscure pieces that challenge an ideal and empower the wearer at the same time.”

Raul Marinel

Raul Marinel makes designs with distorted shapes which incorporate the body into another unknown dimension. Comfort and stability is offered by the closely-fitted garments. The overall process and the final result has a strong visual impact, given by the built-in garment structures and a soft, less-dramatic color palette as a sign of hope for the future.

Kikiriki

Big on edgy, embellished clothing, Kikiriki London combines color and texture to create standout pieces with
stores in London, New York, and LA

Laura Rose Collins

Laura Rose Collins created designs Inspired by the elaborately-costumed Bulgarian Men of the Kukeri who dance and jump through the village streets, to dispel evil spirits, bringing in return, good fortune, wealth and happiness. These two pieces appear in Goldfoil Magazine July 2021 Heatwave Issue 09 (page 18).

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