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Patrick Morgan RCA PGC HE
Working in the field of design and Luxury design for over 20 years with brands from Tom Ford, YSL, LVMH, Christian Dior, Fendi, Schiaperilli, Dior perfume including weekly and monthly pieces for The Financial Times, The Guardian, The New Yorker and The Observer.
In 2018 Patrick exhibited ‘Pigment Channel’ a VR experience at the V&A in connection with the Rodin sculpture rooms and ‘Fashion by Nature’ exhibition. In 2019 Patrick will be collaborating with both the V&A and Christian Dior for the ‘Designer of Dreams’ exhibition running Masterclass experiences.
Patrick has recently been fusing relationships between industry and universities working with the RCA and Wallpaper* magazine, also giving a series of lectures at Tate Modern about future learning and critical thinking. This new direction of creative learning has led him to new modes of practice through new technology from Augment to Virtual Reality and AI in Design thinking. Speaking at The Welsh Embassy regarding design thinking and ocean science, on improving education to a global economy for UK universities.
Patrick is an advisory consultant/expert to Deloitte in the field of design education and progressive trends in new fields of emerging markets.
Clients:
LVMH / DIOR / CHRISTIAN DIOR / THE FINANCIAL TIMES / THE NEW YORK TIMES / THE NEW YORKER / FRIEZE ACADEMY / TATE MODERN / TOM FORD / JAMES BOND PRODUCTIONS / THE ENGLISH NATIONAL BALLET / BBH / MC SAATCHI / SAATCHI & SAATCHI / SELFRIDGES / THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM / SMIRNOFF / THE ROYAL ACADEMY / WALLPAPER* / RCA / VIRGIN AIRWAYS / BRITISH AIRWAYS / CONDE NAST/ HEWLETT PACKARD / CITY AIRPORT / YVES SAINT LAURENT / BCG CONSULTING / COG X / NOKIA / KINGS COLLEGE /
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Connie Lim BA PGC HE
Connie Lim is a professional illustrator and designer from Los Angeles, California. She has trained at prestigious universities such as Art Center College of Art and Design Pasadena (Illustration, 2008) and UAL’s Central Saint Martins in London (Fashion Design with Marketing, 2013). As an artist specializing in fashion, she merged her two love of illustration and fashion design to create unique and striking images with a strong personal vision. She is an avid believer in traditional drawing and is interested in portraying her subjects in different contexts to create visual narrative.
Connie is currently living in London and is a lecturer at the University for the Creative Arts Rochester and short course lecturer at Central Saint Martins and a guest lecturer at various other universities. She is PGCERT certified and part of the HEA (Higher Education Academy) fellowship. Her clients include Guerlain, Bulgari, Louboutin, Bielo, and Revlon and she has shown in galleries such as Oxo in London and participated in Light show installations in Amsterdam, MetroBooks in New York, Fashion Illustration Gallery AF, and ShowStudio. Her work has been featured in books including Martin Dawber’s Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration, and Beautiful by Gestalten and the latest by Taschen, The Illustrator - 100 Best From Around the World.
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Chris Gambrell
Based in Bristol, UK, Chris Gambrell is an artist and fashion illustrator who creates drawings and paintings which explore form, colour and texture. He has worked with large European fashion houses and featured internationally in fashion magazines and wider press.
With an ever-changing toolbox of materials and media, Chris Gambrell explores the process of drawing and painting, developing a style which is captivating in its vibrancy and loose aesthetic.
Most recently, his work has featured as the cover image of the biography of Italian Baroque Artist Artemisia Gentileschi. Written by art critic and writer Johnathan Jones, the book accompanies a landmark exhibition of Gentileschi’s work at the National Gallery in 2019.
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Francesco lo Iacono
With delightful and precise brushstrokes, his exquisite watercolour drawings bring to life ideas, models, moments and garments on a regular basis: Francesco Lo Iacono is an Italian full-time illustrator whose career has taken him from Palermo to London and he's now based in France.
With a distinguished skill in live drawing, he usually works from his home studio or at the shows during Fashion Week.
He has already worked with a wide range of clients including fashion designers, high-end department stores and fashion magazines such as:
Dior, Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Off-White, Fendi, Balenciaga, JW Anderson, REDValentino, Bottega Veneta, Salvatore Ferragamo, Ted Baker, Vogue Japan, L'Officiel Italia, Shiseido, Paul Smith,
Estée Lauder, Mastercard, rag & bone, CFDA, Paris Fashion Week, GQ Mexico, Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, Tiger of Sweden, Houbigant, Stratégies Magazine, InStyle Uk, Stylist Magazine, Vfiles, Superdrug, Sportweek, L'Officiel Hommes Italia, Lou Dalton,
Malene Oddershede Bach and more.
His first book, 'Watercolor Fashion Illustration', has been published by David&Charles in 2021.
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Nadia Coolrista
Nadia Ispwich also known as Nadia Coolrista, I’m an artist and fashion illustrator based in the USA.
In 2014 I discovered my passion for drawing portraits and fashion-related illustrations; almost as a direct benefactor of my early adoption of social media (Instagram, Pinterest, Tiktok, YouTube).
Today my artistic technique and skills have grown tremendously and hopefully highlights my love and affinity for testing new mediums and methods of expression.
In 2020 I became a winner of the Fida Fashion Faces awards 2020 and Celine Dion: Draw an Icon competition.
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Poppy Waddilove
Using oil paint, inks or watercolours Poppy is inspired by dream-like emotion and colour, capturing the line and gestures of what she observes, and creating spontaneity of movement. She is drawn to the confidence and simplicity of a line with added pops of colour and aims to create a timeless but modern elegance in her approach to fashion, portraits and interiors.
Her fashion and portrait work has featured in Tatler, Grazia and Vogue online and her interiors have been shown in Marie Claire and Town & Country. She has had collections with Fashion Illustration Gallery and SHOWstudio and shows at PROUD Gallery and OXO Gallery. She has collections of artwork selling in London galleries and on luxury interiors sites as well as internationally in New York, Milan and Tokyo.
Poppy is a visiting lecturer at Central Saint Martins as well as Kingston and Westminster Universities and The London College of Fashion.
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Bil Donovan - Dior Resident Artist
Bil Donovan is a fashion illustrator who has worked and lived in New York, Paris, and Milan. He has recently been appointed Dior Beauty's first artist-in-residence, and his work has appeared editorially in various publications and promotional advertorial campaigns throughout the world. He teaches at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York
Clients:
Cfda, Christian Dior, Elle, Harper Collins, Kim Crawford vineyards, Luxe magazine, Mercedes-benz, Neiman Marcus, Saks, St.Regis, and vVogue to name a few. Instagram
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Richard Haines
To Richard Haines New York City is an endless runway. When he first moved to the city to pursue illustration, he instead found a successful career as a fashion designer. Through fashion design, working for such brands as Calvin Klein, Perry Ellis, Sean Combs and Bill Blass, he developed a keen eye for the often overlooked details of form, fabric and how a garment falls on the body. This laid a foundation for his illustration work and after years in the world of fashion design, his career has now come full circle allowing him to emerge as one of today's most sought after fashion illustrators.
His wildly popular blog, "What I Saw Today," documents the clothes and attitudes of New York's every day trendsetters and fashion icons of all ages. It is not uncommon to see Haines seated front row at Fashion Week's most desirable shows busily sketching images for magazines and blogs who hire him to record the nuances that cannot be captured on film. His sensitive renderings of his subjects, whether they are men on the street, friends, or fashion models, uncover a deeply sentimental treatment. It is his fascination with the people behind the styles that informs his every stroke, propelling his work beyond mere sketches into the world where art and fashion intersect.
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Martha Zmpounou
Zmpounou’s artworks largely focus on the human form however, instead of producing the figure as one sole entity, she combines visuals together that are structured as fragmented independent pieces. Once these images are combined, they consolidate to portray one individual. In spite of this, the work remains to have an essence of being unfinished. The white canvas background emphasises this further, encouraging the viewer to focus more on the incomplete areas, bridging these gaps according to their own perception of Zmpounou’s art.
Post University, Martha Zmpounou has exhibited on a wide global scale. Nationally, she has taken part in shows including: the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the Discerning Eye and the Lynn Painter-Stainer prize. Further, she has collaborated with companies such as Nike, Phillip Morris and UAL.
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Kelly Bailey
Kelly Bailey is a UK based designer and illustrator and has worked in the fashion industry for 20 years. Trained as a textile designer, Bailey spent a number of years in New York designing prints for a variety of brands including Anne Klein, Lulu Guinness, Cynthia Rowley, Vera, Vince Camuto and Macy's. She acted as a freelance contributor for the global trend agency WGSN.
Bailey brings her expertise as a fashion print designer and specialist skills of drawing and painting to the fore, exploring ink effects, layered transparent colour, shadow and composition together with the knowledge and flexibility to respond to a brand's aesthetic. Bailey's work often blends fashion illustration with pattern and contemporary art influences to visualise and create dynamic pieces of work, with achievements including FIDA Awards Finalist, magazine contribution and original artwork being exhibited as part of the Ultramarine Live Exhibition in Miami (2021).
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Anja Karboul
Anja is a Berlin-based illustrator working in fashion, advertising and advertorial design. Her work ranges from fresh watercolor sketches to contemporary digital illustrations.
After earning a degree in Fashion Design in Germany, Anja studied Fashion Illustration as a Fulbright Scholar at Fashion Insitute of Technology in New York and went on to work for a range of prestigious fashion labels including Kenneth Cole, Yohji Yamamoto and Schumacher. Her passion, however, foremost lies with illustration. She has put her considerable skill to work for global companies such as Hugo Boss, Louis Vuitton, Olympus or H&M.
Thanks to her 20 years of experience in fashion, Anja’s strength lies in observing and captioning a certain look in a few brush strokes in order to translate it into a dynamic fashion illustration.
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Maxim Sergeev
Russian fashion illustrator, my favourite mediums are watercolour gouache and coloured pencils. I like very much to combine these materials and to use in my works the elements of the collage.
Along my career i spent many great work hours with such wonderful customers as Louis Vuitton, Tiffany & Co, Finn Flare, Moët & Chandon, The Fashionable Lampoon.
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Stina Persson
Stina Persson uses ink, watercolor or collages with cut papers to create a style that is both vivid and elegant. She fuses the traditional with the edgy to introduce a modern look to illustration — a look that is appreciated by numerous clients including BALLY, Nike, SONY, The McCartney family, Hearst, Louis Vuitton, Veuve Clicquot, L’Oréal, Vogue Japan, W Magazine and WWD Magazine.
Stina studied fine art in Perugia and fashion drawing in Florence. She also has a degree in illustration from the Pratt Institute in New York. She has had several show of her work in US, Japan, Sweden, Estonia and Poland.
PARTIAL CLIENT LIST
Nike • Reebok • Louis Vuitton • Veuve Clicquot • L’Oréal • Urban Decay • Redken • O.P.I. • UNIQLO • Bloomingdales • Macy’s • Absolut Vodka • Lillet • Microsoft • Sony Music • Blue Note Records • Vogue Japan • W Magazine • WWD Magazine • O Magazine • Harper’s Bazaar (Japan) • Elle (Korea, Sweden, Spain, Germany) • Cosmopolitan • Marie Claire
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Elly Azizian
Elly Azizian is a New York-based live illustrator with a unique ability to capture the dynamism and dramatic impact of the events she draws at, and the individual character of her subjects. Guests always walk away with a one-off memento to cherish.
Once a professional dancer, Elly brings creative understanding of the body and movement to her art, and she studied Haute Couture at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. Elly draws in a range of settings, from large, formal high fashion events through to boutique product launches and weddings. Work can be further customized with initialed, dated or branded paper; use of brand colors in the images; and matte and ribbon packaging for the drawings – an elegant finishing touch to seal the experience. Her images not only engage visitors with her clients’ brands but often take on a life of their own on social media.
CLIENT LIST
Elly’s live drawing clients Paris Haute Couture Week, New York Fashion Week, Mason Dean New York, Henri Daussi, Thompson Hotels and Drawing Cabaret Couture.
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