No doubt this is one of the most artistic and creative sides of fashion, the world of illustrators makes the fashionista public dream and can fully satisfy the designers needing to be told by something truly unique.
Watercolor, pastels, pantone, colored pencils, collage, there are a thousand techniques and they are often combined together. Some even insert digital parts but the best illustrations remain those where the hands have worked on a sheet. Clean or crude lines, very stylized figures or women reminiscent of the great cartoonists and pop culture; each artist tells us a piece of himself and his way of seeing fashion through his works.
Alina Grinpauka
She studied industrial design at the Art academy in Riga, Latvia and in New York.
Recently Alina has collaborated on the illustration of a Cosmopolitan Latvia issue. Inspired by high fashion and everyday life moments, her portrayed women have a decisive and elegant look and the texture is important and magnetic; hand painted with charcoal, watercolor and acrylic.
The fashion illustration is for her a synthesis of style, story, emotion and moment. A human story, personal but shared that can be rewritten in each painting.
Jeanette Getrost
Nominated by Vogue as one of the most in demand and influential illustrators of the industry. Based in Los Angeles, California but she proclaimed herself as Francophila. The peculiarity of her works has quickly attracted the attention of high fashion brands and magazines including - to name a few - Dior, Louboutin, Dolce & Gabbana, Prada and Estee Lauder.
Her easily recognizable style - which is fundamental in this work - gives to drawings a timeless mood with a touch of humor, sketches appear elegant but decisive.
Having great number of followers on social media and also her good looks and style, Jeanette is now influencer for various respectable brands too.
Jessica Durrant
Based in Atlanta, Georgia. Her work is inspired by her travels around the globe, music, film, fashion, architecture, vintage illustration, and Scandinavian design. Her large client area include big names like Sephora, Jimmy Choo, Lancôme Paris, Kérastase, L’Oreal Paris, NYX Cosmetics just to name a few. Her work has been featured in many big magazines too; Harper's Bazaar named her a fashion illustrator to follow on Instagram in both 2014 and 2015.
With this highly respected curriculum - not mentioned everything - it is clear that the future of this American girl is already written.