Illustrator research

Maren Esdar

“Maren Esdar’s striking mixed-media collages contain a surrealist tendency that leads audiences to a strange, dream-like dimension. Educated in both Hamburg and London, Maren’s creations are made with a combination of the classical technique of cutting and pasting with digital rendering. Her work often contains images that transform objects and accessories into genuine narrations, with references to nature philosophy and literature.”

-Dash Magazine

Esdar uses a lot of different techniques to put her illustrations together. What she gets out of it is a very unique image that looks great and makes your imagination work a lot more and see different collages in it.

 

Richard Grey

Richard Grey is a fashion illustrator with amazing skills to put all the different techniques and make them look very professional. Using textures as well as clean lined crisscross in the hair. A lot of scribbles and newspaper cut outs to make collages for outfits make his illustrations a lot different to what you see in the work of Chanel.

 

 

 

GIVENCHY by Riccardo Tisci

“Riccardo Tisci, the 38-year-old designer, reinvented Givenchy, turned around its fortunes, and conquered both the runways of Paris and the streets of Atlanta. But he also did something much more risky: Molly Young infiltrates the atelier of the man who got Kanye West to wear a skirt”

-“Fashion illustration” book

Givenchy’s garments are very post modernistic which can be seen in the prints he uses as well as the construction of his garments. Also due to them being very simple, they look more sophisticated with extravagant prints.

 

Molly Grad

“’My thoughts are directly linked with a pencil’, says Molly Grad, a recipient o Colin Barnes and Nina De Yorke illustration awards. After completing her military service, Grad, an Iraeli, enrolled at Central Saint Martins in London which she earned BA and MA degrees, both with distinction, and won the 2005 Chloé Award for Best Designer. Grad has worked with Stella McCartney and Yves Saint Laurent. ‘Drawing plays a key in my work,’ she says. ‘It is the starting position where all ideas come from and the finishing point, when it used as a detailed technical sketch, which [in turn] used as a base to make a collection’.”

-“Fashion illustration” book

Molly grad uses a lot of abstract and controversial objects together to give the post modernistic look to her illustrations. Personally, I think it is something very personal and her work is really something completely different to what other illustrators present. It has a story line behind it.

 Jens Laugesen

“When other designers are getting nostalgic about the 60s it is great to see clothing that looks ultra-modern and reflects the somber times we live in, rather than some future past.”

Iain R Webb, Fashion director, ELLE

Jens’ work is done in black and white which gives it a very post modernistic look and it shows what Jens’ opinion is on the world. Looking at his work, he knew what the world is like and what society is doing to the world – how it is changing all of us inside and also how it influences our style.