Wednesday, 9 April 2014

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).



Wednesday, 2 April 2014

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.