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.