Fashion & Art- Fashion Illustrations

Fashion illustrations are usually used in fashion magazines or advertisings, they are origination with illustration, drawing and painting. At the beginning of 20th century was the golden age of illustrations. Undoubtedly, illustrations are the most important visual experience of Enlightenment, and they play  essential roles of fashion magazines at that period. However, after the invention of photography, fashion illustrations were weakened in fashion area.

Nowadays, with the development of technology, different designers use diverse performance styles and techniques to express fashion, fashion illustrations re-become popular. In recent years, to be artists, some illustrators are increasingly favored  by many popular fashion brands. These brands often invite some illustrators who has unique style of painting to draw some fashion show advertising pictures. Sometimes, they even use fashion illustrations instead of common model show to advertise their brands. For example, Kelly Smith is a typical fashion illustrator in Australia, and she has graduated from Tasmania College of Arts (Katarina, 2011). Her art works are famous for natural and simple style, and her majority of creative inspiration comes from super models and film stars. In addition, many famous fashion brands such as Chanel, Fendi, Givenchy and so on, have used her illustrations to advertise their productions ( Catalogue, 2012). From I have described above, it is easy to see that fashion illustrations become popular and famous both in fashion and art area.

Reference List:

Catalogue blog: An Interview with fashion Illustrator Kelly Smith. (2012). Retrieved from http://cataloguemagazine.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/blog-post.html

Katarina. (2011). Design Float Blog: fashion illustration by Kelly Smith. Retrieved from http://www.designfloat.com/blog/2011/10/11/illustrations-kelly-smith-fashion/

Fashion & Art- Chanel Fiole Concept Car

As we known, Chanel is an out standing brand in fashion area. Its products are widely favored by ladies. Throughout Chanel history, from perfume to dress and sun glasses, diverse Chanel productions brings us different surprises, and all of them represents high fashion and high quality. Surprisingly, karl Lagerfeld with a few strobes of a genius designed new fashion work- Chanel Fiole Concept Car. The car designer Jinyoung Jo is a student, and he is studying at a University in South Korea (Gooden, 2009). This car will be pro ducted in 2015.

Chanel Fiole Concept Car continue to be used black and white to do body colors, and its upholstery design use red only (Chanel Fiole Concept Car, 2009). Obviously, it is still the representative style of Chanel. Moreover, the car body inherits Chanel's simplicity of lines. Chanel Fiole Concept Car made a sensation in art area. because this car is not only stands for luxury, but also it represents a cooperation between art and fashion. It is genius to put fashion elements and art modelings together, to make a sharp appearance car looks mellow and fashionable. There is no doubting that Chanel Fiole Concept Car is a innovative art work and it is a mile stone in fashion area. It means fashion productions will not limited on small items such as handbags and clothing's any more. It proves a theory: fashion and arts supplement each other.

Reference list:

Car body design: Chanel Fiole Concept car. (2009). Retrieved from http://www.carbodydesign.com/archive/2009/05/28-chanel-fiole-concept/

Gooden, E. (2005). Luxe Lust: Chanel Fiole Concept Car. Retrieved from http://www.luxelust.com/2009/04/29/chanel-fiole-concept-car/