Christian dior

Christian Dior was born in Granville, a seaside town on the coast of Normandy, France, the second of the five children of Maurice Dior, a wealthy fertilizer manufacturer and his wife, the former Isabelle Cardamone. He had four siblings: Raymond  Jacqueline, Bernard, and Ginette (aka Catherine).When Christian was about five years old, the family moved to Paris, France, but still returned to the Normandy coast for summer vacations.
Dior's family had hopes he would become a diplomat, but Dior was artistic and wished to be involved in art. He was gay, though not openly so.To make money, he sold his fashion sketches outside his house for about 10 cents each. In 1928, Dior left school and received money from his father to finance a small art gallery, where he and a friend sold art by the likes of Pablo Picasso Three years later, after the death of Dior's mother and brother and a financial disaster in the family’s fertilizer business, during the Great Depression that resulted in his father losing control of Dior Frères, the gallery had to be closed.
From then until about 1940 he worked with fashion designer Robert Piguet when he was called up for military service.
In 1942, when Dior left the army, he joined the fashion house of Lucien Lelong where he and Pierre Balmain were the primary designers. For the duration of World War II, Dior, as an employee of Lelong — who labored to preserve the French fashion industry during wartime for economic and artistic reasons — designed dresses for the wives of Nazi officers and French collaborators, as did other fashion houses that remained in business during the war, including Jean Patou and Nina Ricci While Dior dressed Nazi wives, his sister Catherine (1917—2008) served as a member of the French Resistance, was captured by the Gestapo, and sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she was incarcerated until she was liberated in May 1945.
On 8 December 1946 Dior founded his fashion house, backed by Marcel Boussac, a cotton-fabric magnate. The actual name of the line of his first collection, presented on 12 February 1947,was Corolle (literally the botanical term corolla or circlet of flower petals in English), but the phrase New Look was coined for it by Carmel Snow, the editor-in-chief of Harper's Bazaar. Dior's designs were more voluptuous than the boxy, fabric-conserving shapes of the recent World War II styles, influenced by the rations on fabric  He was a master at creating shapes and silhouettes; Dior is quoted as saying "I have designed flower women." His look employed fabrics lined predominantly with percale, boned, bustier-style bodices, hip padding, wasp-waisted corsets and petticoats that made his dresses flare out from the waist, giving his models a very curvaceous form.
Initially, women protested because his designs covered up their legs, which they had been unused to because of the previous limitations on fabric. There was also some backlash to Dior's designs due to the amount of fabrics used in a single dress or suit. During one photo shoot in a Paris market, the models were attacked by female vendors over this profligacy, but opposition ceased as the wartime shortages ended. The "New Look" revolutionized women's dress and reestablished Paris as the center of the fashion world after World War II.

Petra Dufkova

  Born in Uherske Hradiste, Czech Republic, Petra initially studied art at a technical school for applied arts.

  She moved to Munich, Germany and in 2008, graduated from the International Fashion School Esmond, with a Pret-a-porter collection.

  During her education at Esmond, she participated in numerous projects and contests, including winning Best Illustration award with her collection at China Fashion Week.

Petra's fashion, beauty and lifestyle illustrations combine traditional methods, with a modern look.

  She gets her inspiration from books, magazines, exhibitions and fashion shows.

Petra currently works as a freelance illustrator, stylist and fashion designer in Munich, Germany.

  What I love about her technique is that her lines are so perfected, almost as if they had been created using a program. This makes her work look so crisp and modern, which is exactly why her main focus is on the edgy world of fashion illustration. However, her pieces are almost too good to feature in the 'throw-away' context of magazines

   Petra Dufkova’s illustrations can be described as a beautiful mess! She uses a combination of sketches, ink and watercolor to achieve her stunning pieces

  Most of us know fashion illustrations for their distinctive association with style and beauty. There is no doubt about that, however there is so much more to fashion illustrations that can inspire every designer, no matter what field you are in.

Daisy de Villeneuve

She’s been drawing in felt-tip since the age of three, but unlike the rest of us she’s forged a brilliant career out of it. Daisy de Villeneuve’s illustrations have adorned everything from Topshop shoeboxes to the pages of Vogue, but, says the fashionista, it hasn’t always been an easy ride.

It’s always referred to as childlike or naive, which shedon’t mind. she is known for drawing with felt-tip pens, but the end result is quite modern and worldly once she had added words to the picture and like the handmade feel to it, the rawness, when you can see the overlapping pen marks showing through.Topshop, Moët and Chandon, the V&A, British Vogue, Elle Decoration, Nylon, Lula Magazine, Habitat, Nike, Browns Focus, Boots, Random House in both the USA and UK, the Fashion and Textile Museum and Transport for London is her main clients.
 
she think it’s important to do both commercial work and exhibit. she think they are different forms of expression and markets too. Her commercial work is normally aimed at a target audience – the work she designed for Topshop is more teenage orientated, and she always think about the consumer when she sit down to draw. Commercial work pays the bills, so is a necessity, but she also really enjoy it and seeing her work in shops.
  As for clothing brands she like the classic style of Margaret Howell, A.P.C., Isabel Marant, Sonia Rykiel, plus Diane von Furstenberg , Ralph Lauren and Zac Posen because he makes dresses that fit well on any shape plus he’s a good friend of he.

Tony Viramontes

 



  Tony Viramontes was born in 1960 in Los Angeles, USA, of Spanish and Mexican parents. He traveled extensively as a child. He studied fine art and photography in New York at FIT and Parsons, before switching to fashion and beauty illustration.
   When Viramontes made his debut in the late 1970's, his hard and direct style was a marked contrast to the prevailing soft pastel school of fashion illustration. He scored an immediate success, rapidly acquiring the kind of prestigious editorial commissions too often allocated to photographers, from Lei ,Per Lui in Italy, Vogue in the USA, the Face in Britain, as well as Jill Magazine , Marie Claire Le Monde and City Magazine in France.
   Viramontes also worked with some of the most renowned names in fashion including Yves St. Laurent, Valentino, Versace, Chanel, Perry Ellis, Claude Montana and Rochas cosmetics. As well as creating portraits of Paloma Picasso and Diana Ross. The album covers he conceived for seminal artists of the period-Duran Duran, Donna Summer and Janet Jackson- caught the glitzrieg mood of the 1980s His striking images are of strong, dominant, aggressive yet feminine women, sensuous men, smoldering and smokey-eyed, who vibrate with New Wave energy. He did not like to be labeled an illustrator, and considered himself to be an artistic creator, a creator of ideas in images.
Tony Viramontes had great artistic potential, but he died in 1988 at the age of only 33. Two decades after his death, his work still shimmers with sensuality and a power that remains undimmed.
  Although Viramontes, who first came to prominence in the late 1970s, didn't live to see the end of the decade, his wonderful illustrations have gained a cult following among fashion fans for whom Christian Lacroix is still the only designer worth wearing
  His work wasn't all Lacroix though. Other designers whose work was translated into his trademark sharp lines and vivid colours included Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, Chanel and Valentino, and he also created a portfolio of portraits with subjects ranging from Paloma Picasso to Duran Duran.

Cate Parr

   Born and educated in England, Cate Parr is a fashion illustrator who has a way with watercolors. Her beautiful works feel dreamy and ethereal, like you're looking at pages of a magazine only that those glamorous figures have suddenly come alive. Awash in bold and pastel colors, her paintings feel fresh and free, the kind you'd love to hang on your wall for a bit of colorful inspiration.
  When it comes to paintings, most artists seem to prefer oils or acrylics for their bright colors and precision strokes. But watercolor paintings have a hazy and ethereal quality to them, as if you are viewing them in a dream or from an altered reality. 
   This English born artist takes inspiration from various fashion magazines such as Vogue and L’Uomo, and then plays on the diaphanous quality of the watercolor paints to create beautifully enchanting portraits. California-based Parr also takes inspiration from other art forms, including French and Italian Cinema, couture design, music, photography, theater and dance. The gauzy and romantic qualities of her works combined with the soft yet cheerful color combinations make her pieces seem very fresh and fashion forward.
  There is a lot of work you can did through from Parr and, like the familiar feeling, she has a lot of work that has There are a plethora of reasons why we all fall off the bandwagon.  Too much work, not enough preparation and organization, laziness, lack of time, money… you name it, it’s been used as an excuse.  That’s all they really are too – excuses made up by your mind to justify it not happening.been published from Village Voice to Los Angeles Magazine to Dickie’s. so we have learn from her ,find and create a different and special way

fashion illustrator --Arturo Elena

 

   Arturo Elena is a Spanish artist .With his technique and outstanding drawing skills, Elena has revolutionized the world of graphic illustration.
   Arturo Elena began working in the 80's with the design team in charge of women's collections for a well-known fashion firm in Barcelona. Over the years, he developed his career in other cities such as Seville and Murcia among others, executing designs for both men's and women's collections.

   Fascinated by Elena's unique style, Victorio & Lucchino have asked him to produce the press images for their collections and illustrate their campaigns. The self-taught artist has been doing their graphic images throughout his whole career.
   Arturo Elena has also collaborated with designers and brands such as Loewe, Chanel Spain, Audemars Piguet, and Citroen to mention a few. His illustrations have also been featured in several publications such as Cosmopolitan, Elle, Telva and other international magazines.

  He is one of Spain’s biggest kept secrets, an illustrator who has long been working away in his homeland producing the most beautifully traditional and intricate fashion drawings.
But we don’t want him to be our secret. We think it’s about time he gets the worldwide recognition that he totally deserves! All of his work is freestyle and completed only with markers, a signature style like no other as he portrays his personalized elongated figures of fashion in elegant and sophisticated forms. Each hand- drawn character being completely individual, unique and unusually lifelike.
  His agency are known for representing fashion and beauty photographers but just had to get Arturo involved as his work emits the same kind of emotion felt when admiring one of the high end fashion campaigns of a Vogue magazine. The team are proud to now have him on-board as the first internationally represented illustrator for the agency. When looking at each piece it’s hard to try and comprehend the amount of time and effort that has gone into each of his drawings, but to inspire us it only takes one look!



RESEARCH #5 Inslee Haynes

 

She was drawing “fashion” long before she knew that fashion illustration was a legitimate career. Her childhood was consumed with sketching girls and their dresses. Her high school art teacher recognized this as something she should learn more about and explore as a career path and suggested she take a summer course at the School of The Art Institute of Chicago on Fashion Illustration.she was HOOKED immediately and later studied studio art and art history at Washington & Lee University.

 

The summer course in Chicago really was a turning point for her. But it wasn’t until her graduated from college and realized how few real world creative jobs there were out there that felt right for her that she knew that pursuing this was the way that she would be creatively inspired and fulfilled in her professional life

 

She started Inslee By Design sort of on a whim, bored at home the summer after her sophomore year at W&L as a way to share her art with friends and family. She struggled with whether or not to continue growing her little brand or move on to work for a “real company” after graduation. Ultimately she chose to continue focusing on Inslee By Design and begin accepting commission work in addition to designing cards. she discovered that she really loved what created in the process.

 

she very proud of a wine bottle label design she collaborated on with a winemaker in Burgundy last summer. Ray Walker is an American winemaker in France. His wine is quickly becoming highly sought after.she was so honored that he asked her to illustrate the label for his most precious vintage – Le Chambertin. So much of her work is for fashion brands so this was a cool change for her. Ray anticipates that the vintage that she worked with him on the label for will hit its peak many years from now. Buyers will store the bottles for decades.

 

Fashion illustration is really “having a moment” right now for her.  The  fact that fashion illustration is becoming a legitimate web presence and career option is so cool.