Illustration
Stalked: Rachel Chiu, New York Fashion Illustrator.
6 January 2015
There's something so cool about fashion illustration, even through this is not classified by many galleries as a saleable art form, which is of course ridiculous! Personally I'd happily display fashion illustrations all around my house in London if I could and this is precisely what I have asked the very talented fashion illustrator Rachel Chiu to help me with! I caught up with this very talented little lady while she was visiting London recently from the big apple.
What do you do and why do you love your job?
I
work as a fashion illustrator in New York. I love my job! I
actually started my career as a fashion designer, but the longer I worked, the
more I realised how much I love the illustration aspect of the design process.
I love being able to capture someone's personal style, render the way the
clothes move and fall on a figure, and express the way I see fashion through
hand drawing. Personally, I think it's so fun and interesting to be able
to put down on paper what I see in my head and be able to share that vision
with an audience.
The Wonderful Grace
7 November 2012
You say the name Grace Coddington and you can bet your bottom dollar everyone who works within fashion would have heard of her and a few from outside the industry gates as well. Grace is the enormous talent behind US Vogue and Anna Wintour's right hand lady. Not only is she the worlds most famous editorial stylist she has now put her hobby of fashion illustration into print, here is a sneaky peak at a few!
Grace, a former model has turned US Vogue's editorial styling around and has been dubbed one of the worlds best. My favourite shoot of hers was themed around Alice In Wonderland, not only do I adore the classic story but Grace styled this so creatively, that she has captured the essence of the book beautifully. In the shoot Natalia Vodianova is shot in a sequence of stories with the worlds tops fashion designers, including Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs, Tom Ford and Jean Paul Gaultier.
With that level of creativity it's no surprising she is also a fashion illustrator and in her latest book of memoirs Grace, she has included these special sketches of her life in fashion. I thought I would give you a sneaky peak at them prior to the launch of the book. My fav is the 'English Girls' one!!!
Image source: Trendland
Illustration Stalking
13 January 2012
One of my favourite things about starting this blog, is that I have the pleasure of being able to meet the most interesting people, this is one of them. Steph is an illustrator from the blog FAIIINT who does the most amazing illustrations and I was over the moon when she did one of me. Of course wearing my most treasured wardrobe piece; my Burberry leather spiked jacket, which is one of 12 made from the SS11 Prorsum collection.
She is unbelievably talented and her blog is one of my favourites!
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