Jeans

A timeless wardrobe essential; blue jeans

Buy at least one pair of comfortable blue jeans. Versatility is what makes jeans so universally loved. They go with absolutely EVERYTHING! 

Bryanboy

My Bryanboy illustration for Milk X Magazine. 

He is wearing a Dolce & Gabbana silk pajama suit and embroided jacket. 

Rumi Neely

Next up on my Milk X illustrations post (see other posts below and rest of the ten yet to be posted):

Rumi Neely of Fashiontoast

She is wearing an Isabel Marant top matching with Isabel Marant shorts 

Tamu McPherson

I did ten illustrations for Milk X Magazine in Hong Kong. 

The images are of selected fashion bloggers wearing their chosen "runway item" (Fall Winter 2012/2013). 

I will post all ten drawings here in the coming weeks. 

First up:

Tamu McPherson of All The Pretty Birds

She is wearing a Chloe coat. 

So What

Been at home for a couple of days now. Infection in my neckvertabrae. 

So no drawing for me right now :-(
which makes me feel like a fish out of water, but hope to be back soon!

Still had this drawing lying around from earlier this week and decided to post it today.

It's made with pencil and indian ink. 

It sort of suits my mood right now (new mantra haha). 

Sometimes shit happens, SO WHAT, chin-up and onwards and upwards!!!

Take the first step!

"The Journey of a thousand miles begins with one step"

(original photograph from Dutch ELLE March 2012)

It’s a Braid, Braid World!

Channel your inner-Heidi or Rapunzel with the braid trend!

I have short thin hair, so I can only dream of braids, but if you have the hair for it and want to give it a go, check the how-to's on this website: http://www.squidoo.com/hair-trends-2011-side-braids

Original image from Dutch ELLE May 2012

Clothing: Miu Miu

As some people have been "borrowing" my illustrations without asking and/or crediting I decided to add a QR-code to my drawings and paintings from now on. A watermark is to obstructive I think, hope this doesn't damage the image too much. 

Peplum Love

Original photograph from Grazia Netherlands Magazine.

Peplum top by H&M

Skirt by River Island

I Should Coco

Coco Rocha is s such a striking model, I love her face and posture. She’s been the face of popular advertising campaigns for some of the top fashion labels and beauty brands. 

Coco has been lighting up the international runways since 2004, walking for some of the world’s foremost designers, from Anna Sui and Marc Jacobs to Stella McCartney and Emanuel Ungaro. In recent years, she has achieved supermodel status with partnerships with some of the industry’s biggest names and labels. Coco was named one of the top 30 models of the decade in 2009 by Vogue Paris. The following year, she was awarded Model of the Year in Paris at Marie Claire’s Prix d’Excellence and the Elle Style award for Model of the Year in London. 

Coco is involved with several charities, and currently participates in the Seventeen Magazine Body Peace Council, where she helps promote healthy body image to young women. In June 2011, Coca and husband designer James Conran received awards for their philanthropic work at a fashion event in Manhattan.  

This illustration is inspired by the February cover shoot of Flare Magazine (photograph by Chris Nicholls).
          

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Guinevere van Seenus for Vogue

Guinevere van Seenus in 'Tender is the Night'
Photographed by Willy Vanderperre for Vogue April 2012

She is wearing a Calvin Klein spaghetti-strap slip dress and suede sandals by Valentino.

Dolce & Gabbana Spring 2012

Dolce & Gabbana offer up a showing of their signature lacework for the label’s spring 2012 collection. Designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana also add floral and fruit prints, crystal embellished bodices and twill suits to their feminine showing.

While scarf prints were all over Dolce & Gabbana’s D&G line, the brand opened their Spring 2012 collection with fruits, flowers, and veggies. Cucumbers, red peppers, onions, and even eggplants were spied on sharp dresses and separates with 50′s silhouettes. Undergarments peeked out from under sheer appliquéd lace garments in baby blue, navy, and white.

Dolce & Gabbana hop from fruit to lace to candy like decorations all at once and it is marvelous! It just screams SPRINGTIME!!

Haider Ackermann Fall Winter 2011/2012

I love love Haider Ackermann's Fall Winter (2011/12) collection!  Inspired by Lord Byron with dramatic lushious materials and long flowy robes and tunics.

The collection features beautiful ensembles that layered different elements of black. Watteau-backed jackets and coats swung over satin-collared dressing gowns and hip-slouched pants, or skirts cut in artful spirals. The monochromatic looks were subtly punctuated with single elements of white, building to an all-white outfit, and eventually with elements of amethyst or mallard. Other looks were colored in extraordinary tonal nuances, like layerings of teal green, forest green, kingfisher blue, and deep jade, for example.
 

Ackermann's runway looks may combine hieratic drama with ineffable cool, but they are composed of thoughtfully considered pieces—a hard tailored blazer, or a soft-draped dressing-gown coat; liquid dresses and blouses; a stiff shantung pant or a billowing sarouel that, when disassembled, will play to a multitude of tastes. It certainly does to mine!

Chris Benz Fall 2012

(From FashionEtc review) “I definitely do love a good musical,” Benz told FashionEtc. “We were looking at all this old footage of Judy Garland and Dolly Parton and all those old Christmas specials from the ‘60s and ‘70s, and we were really trying to recreate that spirit for our girl.

The scan

“For Fall, we were loving the idea of dressing up again,” he said. “Everybody really understands how to be casual, but there’s something to be said for dressing up to go some place.”

Now all the Benz girl needs is somewhere to go, because with this collection, she’s got plenty to wear: sequined floral tunics, layered scarves and petticoats, trim little trousers and bright jackets, touches of fur, and plenty of ebullient prints, all put together with that magpie, more-is-more styling sensibility that Benz has become known for.

 The photograph - so you can see the glitter better!

Well I just love this bright and cheerful collection!!

Ann Demeulemeester Spring 2012

Isabelle Eberhardt was a Swiss writer who traveled extensively in North Africa in the late nineteenth century. She usually wore men's clothing, because she had more freedom of movement that way. In one photograph from her brief life, Eberhardt is dressed as a sailor. This woman inspired Ann Demeeulemeester's Spring 2012 collection.

The creature Demeulemeester created was part androgyne, part decadent, a poetic hybrid of East and West. Demeulemeester imagined a European wardrobe "infected" by the tribal dress her explorer encountered. That might start with something subtle like a striped, tailored blazer with tassels dangling off its buttons, or a trenchcoat de-structured till it was a soft kimonolike wrap. In the middle somewhere, there were slouchy openwork knits and a jacket over-embroidered to look utterly exhausted. Then came the more exotic pieces: the black silk tulle caftan with a trim of beads, the embroidered waistcoat with a trail of fringes. A sheer asymmetrical top and skirt appeared in an ombré that evoked a dust storm.

Ann Demeulemeester; Poetic and beautiful - making physical what many women are dreaming about. 

Vionnet Resort

The cold weather outside makes me dream of warmer climates, travel, colours and blooming nature.

Visits to India, Africa and Japan informed Vionnet’s 2012 resort collection. Color-blocked tunics and dresses in vivid combinations like purple and gold, and orange and white, were reminiscent of 1960s Courrèges as well as of origami and effortless draping. Beautiful!

Maison Michel

One of the most famous French couture millinery brands Maison Michel  is renowned in fashion circles for its handcrafted approach to hat design and production. Founded in 1936 and now owned by Chanel, this beloved French label continues to offer the finest headwear and accessories to women the world over.

Maison Michel has enlisted Russian model Sasha Pivovarova to star in the Fall Winter 2011 lookbook. The accessories house is now operated by Chanel in Paris that is why we find behind the lens Karl Lagerfeld.

Dear Santa

Please stop the rain and let it snow this Christmas...

Evan Rachel Wood roars the 20's in Gucci

Actrice Evan Rachel Wood looks stunning in this chic flapper-inspired Gucci dress with matching 20's hairstyle.

I love the 20's influences in fashion. With its 2012 Spring/Summer Collection, Gucci unveiled a line that’s a throwback to the roaring 20s with a little modern rock-chic and vintage glamour mixed in. Gucci Creative Director, Frida Giannini, was inspired by the opulence and glamour of the “era of hedonism”. And with all that glittering gold, beading and tassels, the line is pure indulgent luxury.

I recentely watched the remake of Mildred Pierce and Evan Rachel Wood is great in it as the grown-up Veda Pierce.  Wood’s Veda blossoms from a precious brat into a full-blown monster, a sly seductress whose ambition and cunning are bottomless. It’s a high-wire performance, pressing up against the boundaries of Greek tragedy and campy excess, but Wood reins it in just enough to retain a sense of Veda’s twisted humanity.Excellent!

Evan Rachel Wood got her action on in this Frank Miller-directed short for Gucci.
http://youtu.be/7K2GAoBTuc4

Enjoy!

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( I am starting to watermark my work as some people have been using my work without my persmission)

Chloe Sevigny

Don't you just love Chloe Sevigny? I do!

She is an American film actress, fashion designer and former model. Sevigny gained reputation for her eclectic fashion sense and developed a broad career in the fashion industry. She now designs for Opening Ceremony.

 

The sketch

Miu Miu Coat

Inspired by an image from Grazia The Netherlands, November 2011.
 

 

Coat by Miu Miu

Suede Mary Janes by Tata Naka

Belt by Jimmy Choo, gloves by Prada and clutch  by Tod's.