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.