A sad week for Dries heads. It’s just been announced Dries Van Noten is stepping down from his namesake brand after 38 years and the fashion world is in mourning.
A thoroughly nice (and normal!) guy who respects women, a brilliantly consistent designer who charms through clever juxtapositions (more…)
Two of my greatest passions are coming together this weekend for a three-day love in.
The Shop at Bluebird (retail porn for aesthetes) and the Fashion Illustration Gallery are going large on last year’s Fashion Illustration Gallery Art Fair (FIGAF), extending it over 3 days at the King’s Road emporium.
Last year I spent hours chatting to illustrators about their work (more…)
Save the date for my fashion illustration panel discussion at the Apple Store Covent Garden on Thursday 14th July. I will be talking to illustrators Gill Button and (newly graduated) Manjit Thapp, as well as fashion features editor of AnOther Magazine, Olivia Singer. (more…)
Oh how I’m loving the Instagram-fuelled return of fashion illustration that’s been percolating for the last year or so. Instagram is the perfect platform for illustrators, having an emotional, almost tactile pull that filtered-to-the-hilt photography generally doesn’t. It’s a craft that we love to try to get close to, so any indication of work-in-progress tools – brushes, marker pens, sketch books, paint palettes – adds an extra layer of appeal. (more…)
