Triumph For Triumph

Icelandic illustrator Kristjana S Willians has teamed up with the lingerie brand Triumph to help create their most recent Aw 13 campaign. Kristjana has been commissioned by a few brands to help create them campaigns such as for the V&S and Design Shanghai 2014.

Her style is very 'cartoony' I'd say and its been used to demonstrate the brands heritage. Again this heritage take is coming into help lively up some brands which seem to be sitting in the shadows with the use of tape measures a d ribbons wrapped throughout the image; quite cliche but I'm not mad at it.

I think the new campaign has helped bring them into the now, as I'd personally never look to Triumph for lingerie, but I may not be their target market, I think they're trying to bring in a younger freshers look. The logo itself of the brand feels dated so the campaign has brightened this up a little. The stills below are of Kristjana herself as she's producing one of the above designs which is a nice touch for treat for advertisers. 

Pen To Paper

During the summer I did a placement at Pinewood Studios in the costume department for a new film. The jewellery I saw during my time there helped inspire one of my summer project which involved illustration of accessories. I took the 1830's-1860's references they were using and decided to draw some of the pieces including earrings and things like broaches. I also used my fingers to paint into them with water colour then scanned them onto my computer to manipulate them on photoshop. Here are a select few from my sketch book that were my favourites. Hope you like!

'The King Of Fashion Illustration'

Antonio Lopez was a famous fashion illustrator back in the 60's. He's had his work published in Vogue, Harpers Bazaar, ELLE, and even The New York Times. He's been named the 'king' of fashion illustration and an exhibition of his work is being shown at Rowland Mouret's Townhouse from September 14th - October 20th. He sadly died at the age of 44 from AIDS so won't be there of course, but if you're a fan of his work or fashion illustration in general I would go down for a peak.

The exhibition would of marked his 70th birthday and as well as being able to see his work, it is being auctioned off so is available to buy. A lot of the work being auctioned off is unseen, curated by Janina Joffe from the 1960's to 1980's created for magazines such as Interview and Vanity.

His relevance today is still present, as MAC cosmetics are bringing out a limited edition range in his honour. They've previous done collections using Wonder Women, Beth Dito, Marilyn Monroe and the Viva Glam Nicki collection, so they have clearly cottoned on to his amazing graphics and use of colour and wanted to use it to display a new range. With the exhibition started around the same time are the launch, it's good publicity for them. As a fan of MAC products myself, I will definitely be going in my local to have a look at the collection.

Below are some of my favourite works from Lopez, do you have any personal favs?