GILL BUTTON
Instagram: @buttonfruit
www.buttonfruit.com
Not only is Gill Button known for her artistic talent but she has also contributed to the creation of Dries van Noten's AW16-17 fashion show invitations alongside many other artistic collaborations. Her work is beautiful, intimate and glamorous as she captures the clothing of the most desirable fashion designers in a painterly manner through fluid brushstrokes and confident confrontation with current style. She sketches each model in an immaculate yet imperfect way to depict a true vision of those who strut down the catwalk. However, the colours in her work do the real talking as she mixes up a complex vivid colour palette to bring life to her work and to enjoy the seasonal hues and trends of the specific time of year.
Although Button takes pride in her stylish work she does not classify herself completely as a fashion illustrator as she said to Dazed and Confused magazine recently, “I’m a painter rather than a fashion illustrator as such, which is why my approach perhaps differs. I’m simply painting portraits, and sometimes my subjects wear amazing clothes!”
Dries van Noten hand painted invitations designed by Gill Button
RICHARD KILROY
Instagram: @richardkilroy
http://www.richardkilroy.com/
Richard Kilroy is another successful fashion illustrator in the industry however, unlike Gill Button, Kilroy mainly illustrates male fashion and has even created his own magazine called Decoy which is entirely devoted to the contemporary world of male fashion. Furthermore, Kilroy also created his own book in 2015 which was called Menswear Illustration which was published by Thames and Hudson and explores the different styles of male fashion and the versatile creative talents around the world who have sketched images for editorial, advertising and brand communications. The illustrator has worked for the likes of Christian Dior and worked on the exhibitions René Gruau And The Line Of Beauty.
“When I use colour and line I want it to be more suggestive and about satisfying shapes, I don't enjoy working with colour in extreme detail like I do with graphite,” says Kilroy. “Getting the balance of these is where I find satisfaction; taking photorealism away from the notion of being a ‘human photocopier’ with no space for interpretation, seeing it as more of a collage of realist and suggestive elements.”
NICASIO TORRES
Instagram: @nicasio_torres
http://www.nicasiotorres.com/
Nicasio Torres has recently been famed for his relationship with the fashion film website SHOWstudio, (founded by Nick Knight) who he has collaborated with to deliver illustrations of the Milan Menswear shows. Similarly to Kilroy, Torres also explores the beauty of male fashion and how the silhouettes can differ to female attire in an innovative and experimental way. He also revealed during a interview with Dazed and Confused magazine that he ideally likes to focus on the structure of the body to form his work. “The body’s representation is one of my favourite artistic themes, so I feel very familiar with fashion illustration. For that reason, it’s an ideal pretext for me to develop my work. I don’t try to represent all of the visual characteristics of an image, I just illustrate the aspects that move me.”
Illustrations of Milan Men´s Fashion Week AW16 for SHOWstudio
Although his expertise are in male fashion, Torres has developed some drawings of the recent female collections by Stella McCartney and Saint Laurent for AW16.
Illustrations of Women's Fashion Week AW16
UNSKILLED WORKER
Instagram: @unskilledworker
http://unskilledworker.co.uk/
Unskilled worker has also been known to have had worked with Nick Knight's website SHOWstudio on the unforgettable exhibition Savage Beauty which was in awe of Alexander McQueen's late work and was shown at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The illustrator has even created a cover for the Business of Fashion which that in it's self proves the popularity and creditability that Unskilled Worker has obtained within the industry. As an illustrator, her work has the mannerism of the work of an innocent child's however, her drawings possess such darker and daring concepts to draw attention to both fashion and emotion in a moving way.
Unskilled Worker's style is so distinctive and recognisable that she was even approached in 2015 by the Italian fashion house Gucci to make a series of portraits inspired by the work of Alessandro Michele who is the current creative director for the fashion brand. The collection of work was debuted in Shangai at the Minsheng Art Museum.
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