GARANCE DORE

Garance Doré was born in May 1, 1975 in Corsica, France is a French photographer, illustrator, and author, she is best known for her fashion blog.

At the beginning she was working as a freelance illustrator in France before beginning her blog, garancedore.com in 2006. Louis Vuitton, Dior, Kate Spade, and GAP have published her illustrations. After she began her blog, she began incorporating writing into her posts. In 2007, she also featured her photography of people around Paris on her blog and known as “streetstyle”. Since then she has worked with Chloé, Chopard, David Yurman, Tiffany & Co., and J. Crew on photography collaborations. She also was named in a New York Times article as the “guardian of all style”. Then in 2009, she began creating video for her blog. After a few months she has collaborating on video with major brands like; Dior, Chopard, Tiffany & Co., Petit Bateau, J. Crew, Max Mara, and Kering. And in 2012 she had made her own YouTube series “Pardon My French”. Her episodes including Fashion Week and interviews with Stella McCartney, Jenna Lyons, Dries Van Noten, and Anna Della Russo. Currently she writes a column for Vogue Paris.
Her site has remained the source of her inspiration and worth nearly every waking hour of her day. In her posts she mostly talked about the projects that have touched her deeply, most notably, also the collaborations that she chose carefully. Also some trips that has altered her to the core. Also she has been working on a book, it is going to be a book of an advice on how to dress, how to choose what to do for features, and it will be mixed with photos and illustrations.
Her work has been featured in Harper’s Bazaar, GQ, Vogue, Self Service and French Elle (magazine). Her work as a photographer, illustrator and author has appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, New York Magazine, Vogue, British Vogue, The Guardian, and Elle (magazine).

Nadia Flower

Nadia Flower is a mixed-media contemporary artist who creates art for clients all over the world. She works with hand-drawn and digital patterns, applying them to fine arts, fashion, editorial and advertising, books, and textiles. She is inspired by her surroundings and all that related with Tokyo and Kawaii. 

Her style or techniques are including conceptual, lettering, line, line with color, mixed media, pencil, watercolor, concept art, and vector. Also her subject or specialties are humor, book covers, editorial, fantasy, fashion/cosmetics, icons, nature, people, posters, toys & games, lifestyle, feminine, youth, and environmental. 

She has recently completed her work with ASOS.com in which she illustrated a variety of perfume bottles and her interpretation of their scents emerging from the bottles. She was given a complete freedom to finish this work to express her talents. She has released her own stationery range in New Zealand. She has also worked with Vogue China, which she decorated a piece in the magazine to illustrate the floral dresses trend at the time. With GHD, she designed packaging for a set of Limited Edition black & white gloss styles. The white pack represents an assortment of pure elements, such as; angles, stars, and flowers, whereas the other features an assortment of dark elements, such as; devils, snakes, and serpents.

Fragile, delicate, yet graphic and strong are the elements that define her beautiful illustration work. She is combining hand-drawn and computer-based imagery; she works across a variety of visual mediums, from fine art painting to fashion and textile, also a pure illustration for the editorial and advertising markets. She can creates excellent vector work as well as watercolors. As she is a New Zealand based artist, she has produced her work for clients around the world and she has also appeared in group exhibitions and book publications in Australia, Tokyo, Italy, UK, Japan, and the US. Her illustrations are playful, sensual, and almost illusive, as they exist in the space where dreams, fantasies and fashion collide.

Antonio Lopez

Antonio Lopez was born in February 11, 1943 in Utado, Puerto Rico. He was influenced by his parents; Maria Luisa Cruz and Francisco Lopez to apply his talents in fashion. When he was studying at the Fashion Institute of Technology he began his internship at Women's Wear Daily which led him to leave school and start working at the publication. 


In the early 1960s, he began to be a free-lancer for fashion magazines such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, and Andy Warhol's Interview. In 1964, he introduced himself to a couturier Charles James in a New York restaurant and that meeting generate in a collaboration between the young artist and the master that would last more than ten years and produce an illustration of all the clothes that had designed by James. He taught Lopez to appreciate the sculptural quality of clothes, a perspective that had a lasting effect on his drawings.

Lopez worked in close collaboration with Juan Eugene Ramos. And in 1969 he moved to Paris with Ramos and worked with Karl Lagerfeld. He also the one who discovered Jessica Lange in 1974, also discovered Grace Jones and Tina Chow, and discovered Jerry Hall and lived with her in Paris at her beginning in her modelling career. They also helped to introduce American Pop Art to Paris. Lopez's career took him to Paris, Tokyo, Kyoto, Milan, Sidney, Melbourne, and other international locations. He used variety of materials such as pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, water-colour, and Polaroid film, and also pursued jewellery design, conceptual designs; as window displays for Fiorucci and Studio 54, graphic collaboration on interview.

After all his amazing work and great collaborations with so many great designers. He was died of complications related to AIDS in March 17, 1987 at the age 44.  His campaigns for Missoni endure as one of the great artist/designer collaborations. But when he was doing his campaign with Missoni which launched at the same time as the 1984 Olympics, he was already ill. The Missoni images are a reminder of how men were as important as women in Lopez's visual vocabulary. That was a rare thing in the annals of fashion.

Kelly Smith

Kelly Smith is an Australian fashion illustrator. She finished her BA in Fine Arts at Tasmania School of art in 2006. Now she pursue her carrer in both fashion and beauty illustration. Her drawings already featured by reputable magazines such as VOGUE, InStyle UK, Harper bazaar, ELLE girl and The (UK) Sunday Time's STYLE.

 In 2007 she started her blog called "Birdy  & Me" and luckily her illustration was noticed by V energy drink's V-raw and that was all about promote emerging talent . The company featured her works on their page and published it. After that she starts to mail her illustration to different magazines.

She uses pencil and water-color as her media to create a fantastic illustration and she has a fine detailed pencil work, also using a soft color into her illustration.

 The big highlight in her career was when she had a collaboration with Jo Scahill of L'avion  to illustrate scarves design. She also had a special project with jewellery designer Samantha Wills to make a stationery range. Other several brands that she has worked with was H&M, Valentino, Armani, Jenny Packham, Portmans, and General Pants Co.

She was approached by Laurence King Publisher to worked with them in a project that has a concept to re-inventing the idea of the old paper doll. It was about introducing younger girls to the role, when fashion has played throuh history and cultural differences. She has her own sticker book called,”Sticker Fashionista”. She also has published a book named, “ A Year in Fashoin”, it tells about how people should embrace and express themselves through fashion, when fashion is all about having fun and experiment in it. The book also gives you a chance to play with fashion through their over 200 stickers  and 40 outfits to gives its a  makeover.

David Downton

He was born in Kent, the South of England in 1959. He studied his foundation year ar Canterbury and studied his BA hons illustrations/graphics at Wolverhampton. Then he started his illustation carrer when he moved to Brighton in 1984. And for the next 12 years, he worked on many variety of projects, start from advertising and packaging to illustration fiction, cook books, and, fashion for sure.

In 1996, he was given a job from the Financial Times to draw at Paris Haute Couture shows and from then he has known as a fashion illustrator. His drawings from the shows have been seen in the US, China, Australia, and the Middle East, as well in UK. And in 1998 finally his work exhibited in solo shows at the Conningsby Gallery in London and also in 2006 at the Couture Voyeur show the London College of Fashion’s Fashion Space Gallery. Also in 2006, he was contributed by Browns to design the Christmas window display for their South Moulton Street store. His work has published on the front cover of a special edition of Jane Austen’s Emma, published by the Daily Telegraph, and on the cover of Cally Blackman’s 100 Years of Fashion Illustration in 2007. He has also collaborated with supermodel Erin O’Connor in shows including at the Rootstein Gallery, New York in 2002 and also at the Joyce Ma Gallery, Palais Royal, Paris in 2003.

Until now he has attended Paris Haute Couture shows for more than a decade. His portfolio works include portraits of models Erin O’Connor, Lily Cole, Paloma Picasso, Catherine Deneuve, iman, Dita Von Teese, Linda Evangelista, and Carmen Dell’Orfice. His works has been shown in newspapers and magazines all over the world. His commercial clients include Tiffany’s New York, SAKS 5th Avenue, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Burberry, Bloomingdales, Barney’s, Harrods, TopShop, Chanel, Dior, L’Oreal, Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, V Magazine, V&A Museum and the British Fashion Council.

He will launch his book, Master’s of Fashion Illustration, later this year and it will features a collection of the work of several artists from Andy Warhol to René Bouché . 
 

Hanna Muller

Hanna Muller was born in northern parts of Sweden. She has been drawing since she was just a little girl. She was taught by her father and grandfather, not long after that, her drawings became an identity of her, and still until now she never considered herself as an illustrator. She finally started a blog where she shows all of her artworks to her friends and public. After more and more people discovered her blog, she started getting a lot of good feedback and compliment.

She is very talented, all of her artworks have a simplistic life-like style and she uses aquarelle and ink to create an effect in her drawings. Some of her drawings she doesn't use color and the skin tone, she achieved it through shading. Sometimes she uses color on her drawing only for some parts like lips, fingernails, or a single garment. The facial expressions on most of all her drawings are blank and all the poses are always very unique, it is different from any other

illustrator which considered as her identity. Also most of her works are more about close-up in faces. She always draws something based on the real model, so the faces also look real and so alive. The way she puts the color in every drawing seems so colorful and playful. She also quite often uses properties such as cigarette, coffee cup, pair of glasses, and cat. Her drawing is bold but yet still simple and beautiful with the face as the main focus. Her pale aquarelle paintings reflect the cool, barren landscape of the northern parts of Sweden she derives from. She has a very beautiful detail and all her illustrations are striking.

Her work was exhibited once in London at the exhibition Go Figure New Fashion Illustration in 2012.

Kathryn Elyse Rodgers

Kathryn Elyse Rodgers is a 26 years old freelance fashion illustrator based in New York. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University with B.F.A in Industrial design. After graduated, She pursue her passion in fashion and apparel design and currently works in reebok company as  apparel designer.

Katie Rodgers draw fashion illustration in her spare time and In 2009 she created a blog called paper fashion which containts her collection of fashion illustrations. Her name directly known, as many people interested with her drawings. She also has been featured in several magazines such as Lucky,CosmoGirl and Elle magazines.

She uses water colour and ink pens to draw a fashion illustration and sometimes she adds some ornaments like glitters and beads to decorates her drawings which makes her illustration unique and different from another fashion illustration. She even uses pencil shavings  in her drawings. She always tries something new to create a beutifull yet fantastic illustration.

She describes her style as happy realistic and whimsical drawings."it's not overly realistic, but not abstract either. It’s hand drawn art, so it shows layers and thought all at once" she said in interview with secret weapons.

Her achievement was collaboration with Coach to illustrate its holiday campaign and paint limited edition bags by hand. She also has the opportunity to sketch models wearing coveted pieces for Missoni and target collaboration. Other several brands that she has worked with was Valentino, Swarovski, Clé de Peau, Kate Spade, Calypso St. Barths, Stuart Weitzman, Parker Pens,and Lacoste. Her talents also has been noticed by alicia keys.

Now besides her online sales and commission works, she also illustrate wallpaper,calender  and other inspired goods. She has her golden  future sturdily set if she constantly keeps up her current sky roketing development. Katie Rodgers is one illustrator you would want to keep your eyes upon.

Laura Laine

Laura laine was born on 1983 in Helsinki, Finland. She studied fashion design in University of Art and Design Helsinki, focusing on fashion illustration.

After finished school, she has taught illustration at her campus. She realised that she's in love with fashion illustration on the first day of the class, she started to draw fashion illustration and has been working as a full time freelance fashion illustration. Her clients include Zara, Tommy Hilfiger, H&M, Iben Hoej, Daniel Palillo, The New York Times Magazine, Elle Girl, The Guardian, and Páp Magazine. 

She likes Edward Gorey and arry Clarke the most. Iconic black and white illustrations are amazingly beautiful and mesmerising. Even though all her works are done beautifully, it's still got an eccentric, dark, and aesthetic feeling. After working with photographer Nicolas Clerc for Muse magazine, he had inspired Laine to invent more colourful designs in her works.


Her works are incredibly fine and detailed line works,which suggest a many variety of textures, such as fur, silk, wool, leather, etc. Furthermore, there is a certain motion to her illustrations, which is shown by the gracefully twisted body postures and the gloriously flowing long hair of her characters.

She once said "Fashion is impressive I discover enormously inspiring and like to stay as an aspect of my work, but I have not at all be apologetic of giving up the genuine designing". She inspired on different things at different times, but more often the things related to fashion, style, and method of approaching fashion, journalism or art, painting, sculpture. Her drawing style is amazing, she simply makes working in her illustration, painting what she feels like at the moment. Recently it’s been twisted-bodied girls with a depressed attitude.

Danny Roberts

 Danny Robert was born in Newport Beach, California, USA in 1985. He started a clothing company at the age of 13. He majored photography in Cal Poly University San Luis Obispo and then transferred to The Academy of Arts , San Francisco to study fashion. His first class in The Academy of Arts was fashion illustration and he fell in love with it and decided to be a fashion illustrator rather than be a fashion designer.



In 2008 , he found "Igor +André", a fashion blog. His blog shows his drawings, photography, video and illustration which later makes him known worldwide as a talented fashion illustrator. His drawings has been featured in publications like New York Times, VOGUE, ELLE, Marie Claire, Women's Wear Daily, etc.

His illustration has a very good quality of line and a dreamy illusion. He always draws a circle blush on the cheek which is his trademark. He likes to use a lot of mix media, but his favourite are fine tip pens like micron pens and also water down ink or Gouache.

His most famous illustration work are Lily Cole and Gemma Ward and these are his most challenging works like he said in interview with Filler Magazine. It's a beautiful and fierce illustration. At first he didn't know who is Lily Cole or Gemma Ward were, until one day at his first year of college, he saw a picture of Gemma and he froze, cause she looked just like his drawings. The same thing was happened with Lily Cole, it was like seeing his drawings come to life.

He has a collaboration with Gwen Stephanie's Harajuku Lovers. Gwen Stefany approached him and ask him to team up, to make a mini limited edition line. The collaboration was released in July and consists of four unique handbags, six shirts, and one sweat t-shirt. He also has other several collaboration such as forever 21, Lancome, Heutchy Shoes, Sundace Channel.

Hayden Williams

Hayden Williams is a 22 years old British fashion designer or illustrator, currently studying fashion design in Ravensbourne University. He is known for his amazing illustrations of many famous figures such as singers, actress/actor, celebrities, models, etc. He has been referenced to and gotten personal mentions from famous people, Beyonce and Rihanna being two of them. He was also featured in some of the most reputable magazinez, such as ELLE and Vogue. 

His fame started to kick off in 2009 when he posted and showed his distinctive illustrations in Instagram. The mega-hyped social media gave him the huge push he needed in widening the audience of his popularity and raising acknowledgement from social mass. As of now, he has his own Facebook page and personal website dedicated to his work, which has gained more than 500,000 followers in Instagram.

One of Hayden Williams’ illustrations that made the sturdy base of his fame is his “Disney Divas Collection”. The special collection was centered around iconic Disney princesses. Williams illustrated and designed the Disney princesses’ characters along with their Hayden-Williams-modified dress, each with that Hayden-esque distinctive strokes which many of his fans would easily recognize as his work. The lines of his illustrations always have fine and artistic lines and vibrant details also colorful and playful.

Recently, he won an illustration competition held by Sketch Street. Thus, he was given the opportunity to come out with his own women’s ready to wear clothing line collection exclusively made for Sketch Street. This achievement kept up the drive in him to keep being motivated and continue on being the phenomenal illustrator that he is. 

“It feels amazing to be recognized and supported by such established and talented people! I am humbled by it all because I did not expect it to happen. I never become complacent either. I am always aiming to improve and become something greater!”, he said during an interview with Fashion London magazine. As successful as he is now, Hayden kept himself grounded and humbled. I can learn a lot from him as an aspiring designer myself, starting from his attitude towards his success and the way he never stops improving his drawing skills.