Tessa M. de Graaf's two greatest passions have always been fashion and illustration, which she ultimately found a way of combining. Born in a small village in the North of the Netherlands, she moved to Amsterdam at the age of 18 to study fashion. While there, she admits that fashion drawing and figure drawing were her favorite subjects.
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Simona Murialdo’s art is a zesty mixture of illustration, animation, video, and 2D graphics. Having studied Graphic Design and Fashion Illustration, she’s now based in Milan where she works as a fashion illustrator and art director.
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But it's her fashion illustrations that have really caught our attention. Bold and graphic, they have a certain sheen to them that makes them...
Dutch painter Roxy van Bemmel relies on her background in fashion when tending to her craft. With a degree in fashion design from ArtEZ Arnhem, Bemmel paints fashionable portraits of women and men, based on a designer’s point of view.
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Working both commercially and otherwise, van Bemmel has collaborated with fashion magazines, creating editorial illustrations. “Freelancing makes me schedule...
Esra Roise's fashion illustrations are feminine without being too cutesy. Based in Oslo, her formal training includes a BA in Visual Communication from The Academy of The Arts in Oslo, Norway, but her passion for art sparked much earlier than that.
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“I’ve been drawing since I was just a little girl," she shared in an interview Artflakes. "It...
Karolina Pawelczyk draws wonky-looking characters that seem to be very much in fashion. Using bright-colored markers, her illustrations have a playfulness to them that's very much intended. Because when it comes to both fashion and art, we could always use a dab of humor and good cheer.
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“When I think of my style I’m sure it’s quite… happy!” Pawelczyk admitted...
Gill Button has more or less always known she wanted to be an artist. “As the story with most artists goes, I drew incessantly from the time I could pick up a crayon,” she recalled in an interview with The Corner. “I would go through paper at a ridiculous rate and, when it ran out, I’d draw on the backs,...
According to fashion designer and artist Rhea Ornias, art has the power to comfort and elate. Ornias should know, having immersed herself completely in art. Aside from being a fashion designer, she also draws portraits of women, to which she later adds a short poem.
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“As an only child, illustrating and writing were my two great companions,” she shared...
Leanne Woodley's manicures are much more than that. According to the British style magazine Dazed and Confused Magazine, her designs are nothing short of miniature works of art. Based in Brooklyn, her unique take on nails has brought Woodley to coveted collaborations with giants like i-D Magazine, L’Officiel USA, and Vogue Taiwan.
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But it took her a while to...
Dena Cooper's fashion illustrations lean on her education in fashion design as well as her early career as a womenswear designer in New York City. With an eye for detail, as well as a sense of style, Cooper manages to distill the essence of fashion into watercolor impressions.
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Born and raised in Paris to a mother who worked as a fashion designer, Marine de Quénetain's fate was sealed: she was to become an illustrator and art director specializing in the beauty and fashion industry.
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“I always saw her drawing fashion figures in her studio, listening to music,” she said about her mother, talking candidly in an interview...
