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The art of advertising illustration – in pictures. Fashion Illustration vs Fashion Photography – Fashion North. In the UK 20 years ago the average model weighed 8% less than the average woman, but today it is a huge, 23% less according to The National Eating Disorders Association.

Fashion Illustration vs Fashion Photography – Fashion North

In an era where fast food and obesity are never far from our conversations, it is shocking to see the abuse young models are putting themselves through for the sake of the media and fashion houses that are allowing them to represent their brands. As children, teenagers and young adults we are presumed as being naïve, and easily influenced. But when you are battling raging hormones and self esteem issues why would seeing images of beautiful women, with slim figures in designer clothing not make us reflective of our own body image? Fashion illustration or fashion photography? Inimitable Style: Fashion Illustration vs. Fashion Photography in 1914 Vogue. In 1914, modern fashion photography, as we know and love it today, was still in its very nascent, experimental phase.

Inimitable Style: Fashion Illustration vs. Fashion Photography in 1914 Vogue

Photographers such as Edward Steichen and Baron Adolph de Meyer had demonstrated the artistic possibilities of the medium but it would be years before their influences would be overwhelming felt within the pages of fashion magazines. (Indeed, Vogue would not produce its first photographic cover until 1932.) Illustration VS Photography.

For a long time photography has been the king of the commercial and publishing world ruling over magazines and ad campaigns.

Illustration VS Photography

But in the past few years illustration has been challenging this rule and we have finally seen its ascension to the throne. There are many reasons why photography has come to the forefront of the commercial word – note that it has also followed a very similar course in the artworld – but primarily it’s because photographs communicate with the viewer in a direct manner.

Photographs are “easy” to understand in visual terms as they are composed of elements found around us and more importantly they allow viewers to envision themselves in the photograph. The digital nature of contemporary photography has also helped to further this phenomenon as it has strengthened even more its immediacy to the public and has minimized the physical turnaround (who remembers dark rooms any more?). But why has illustration really seen a flux lately? Youth Time magazine - Why The Profession Of Fashion Illustrator Is So Popular? Interview With 6 Young Illustrators. Thoughts on contemporary fashion illustration. Whenever I attend a fashion illustration exhibition, or otherwise find myself in the company of fashion illustration enthusiasts, I hear variations on this sentiment: “fashion illustration is having a moment“!

thoughts on contemporary fashion illustration

My inner reaction is always: is it, really? What does this mean, exactly? A moment. The Dying Art of Illustration. Somerset House’s recent Dior Illustrated exhibition paid tribute to the artistic genius produced by René Gruau for Christian Dior.

The Dying Art of Illustration

The exhibition showcased how this extraordinary partnership produced advertisements, magazine covers, Christmas cards, and wall coverings, all capturing the elegance and playfulness of Dior’s unique style. René Gruau is one of the greatest examples of modern illustrators; a star of the 1940s and 50s, not only producing some of the most iconic advertisements for Dior, Omega, Air France and Martini, but also stamping his unique flair across the pages of that era’s most prestigious magazines. Gruau’s work with Dior could convince anyone of the seductive, fanciful fascination with fashion illustration.

However, while Gruau’s legacy was being celebrated in London, Paris was hosting Paris Photo, one of the world’s largest photographic exhibitions featuring over 100 galleries and publishers from all over the world. Pushing the medium of fashion illustrator: Kelly Beeman. Is fashion illustration a dying art? Fashion illustrator, Gladys Perint Palmer, has spent over three decades chronicling couture.

Is fashion illustration a dying art?

The former fashion journalist, front-row fashion commentator and best-selling author, who says she draws faster than she writes, is currently the executive vice president of Artistic Development at the Academy of Art University in California. We caught up with Gladys, fondly known as GPP, in Bangalore as she visited several Indian cities as ambassador of the Academy of Art University. Drawn In: The Return of Fashion Illustration - WSJ. LAST FEBRUARY during fashion week in New York, noted illustrator Bil Donovan got a call from New York magazine asking him to document the backstage action.

Drawn In: The Return of Fashion Illustration - WSJ

So, at shows from Carolina Herrera to Thom Browne, amid frenzied TV crews, photographers and Snapchatters, the gentlemanly artist pulled out his ink pots and went to work. When Mr. Donovan asked the editor why he was hired, she replied, “Because anyone can take a picture.’ ” Anyone can take a picture (and thanks to filters and apps, a pretty professional-looking one at that). Why Illustration Is Important In Fashion - Taiwo Aloba ▷ NAIJ.COM. Taiwo Aloba is a fashion illustrator, stylist, performer and writer.

Why Illustration Is Important In Fashion - Taiwo Aloba ▷ NAIJ.COM

An avid art enthusiast, she has worked in the styling department of one of the biggest soap operas in Africa Tinsel. She currently works at Capital Dreams Pictures. She is a media and costume graduate of the department of Theatre Arts and Music, Lagos State University, Lagos. In this exclusive interview with Naij.com, she talked about her art and what distinguishes illustration from photography. The role of fashion illustrations in the fashion... Fashion Illustration is the First Face to Fashion.

Fashion illustration is the transmission of fashion through a diagram; it is the visual aid through which the design is explained in the fashion magazines and fashion illustrators.

Fashion Illustration is the First Face to Fashion

Various illustrations that explain fashion have been in existence since the time clothes have been in existence. Illustrations have played importance since the evolution of fashion and in the various institutions serving in educating fashion illustration play the lead role and through illustrations the practitioners do practice fashion designs. It is a piece of art through which fashion is explained and communicated. The Art of Fashion Illustration. This is a guest post by Lucinda Bounsall, fashion writer at farfetch.com Twiggy by David Downton.

The Art of Fashion Illustration

Four decades of fashion illustration. Fashion Drawing and Illustration in the 20th Century. Jeanne Paquin (1869-1936), fashion design, Paris, 1907. Museum no. E.1432-1957 1900s. Books & Magazines. Fashionable Illustrations And Appearance In Editorials Cultural Studies Essay. This essay has been submitted by a student. This is not an example of the work written by our professional essay writers. Fashion illustrations were and will stay desirable forever! For many years this part of art was modifying and improving to become an independent and valuable art segment. For some people it might have no value, but for some of them it is a meaning of the life.

Illustrations are in a huge connection with art movements, fashion trends and photography. Why there are the periods when it becomes popular and then almost disappears? However there is no other way for fashion to be produced without illustrations.