Fashion Illustrator George Stavrinos

  

     George Stavrinos was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1948. Despite a strict upbringing, his parents approved of his career choice, and he studied graphics at the Rhode Island School of Design. Moving to New York City in 1973, George eventually presented his portfolio to prestigious Push Pin Studios where co-founders Seymour Chwast and Milton Glaser recognized his talent and offered him a staff position. Though Stavrinos chose only to be represented by Push Pin, it expanded his client list to include New York Magazine, Bonwit Teller, Psychology Today, Pan Am, Columbia Records, CIBAGeigy, Capezio, Viva, Oui, andGentlemen’s Quarterly. In 1977, George began producing fashion illustrations for Barney’s.  In conjunction with an outside ad agency, George’s work quickly became the face of Barney’s new, chic, upscale look.

   Actually his work can know that like use the pencil to draw and also his work mostly became black. And his fashion illustration always let me the feeling of comfort, because the clothes in the picture, it just like the true can know the clothes material. I think he was better to draw the folds of clothes, and let me want to touch the clothes.  He just used the three color black, white and grey can really accurate expression stereoscopic effect, spatial distance. Actually his work did not have so many things, but his picture showing always give us delicate beauty. Sometime simple detail will change all. So I think the details determine success or failure.

  But the one of sad thing is his life was cut short by the AIDs epidemic that swept through an entire generation. The New York Times described his major accomplishments as having helped revive an interest in finely drawn representational art. Actually I really appreciate his illustration style, used pencil to draw one perfect work need spend much time and patience, so how difficult thing if have patience and insist, the success is not far away.  

Fashion illustrator - Antonio Lopez

Antonio Lopez was born in Utuado,Puerto Rico on February 11th, 1943. Antonio Lopez died in 1987, aged 44, but made an indelible mark on the fashion landscape via his distinctive illustrations for fashion houses and publications.

When he was seven years old, he moved to New York with his family. In the early 1960s, Antonio Lopez began to free-lance for fashion magazines. He was a fashion illustrator whose work appeared in such publications as Vogue , Harper's Bazaar , Elle , Interview and The New York Times and the New York Times called him a "major fashion illustrator." Widely recognized during this period as the world's most influential fashion illustrator, Antonio's work took on a deeper, he pursued various art forms and endeavors. He worked in a variety of materials, including pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, watercolor and Polaroid film, richly detailed, with a vivid palette, and heroic proportions and poses. By the early 1970s, His constantly changing, flamboyant style came to dominate

 fashion illustration by injecting energy into a discipline that had been stagnant since the 1950s. A new, more animated, painting style emerged.

From my point of view, he tried to be creative with each fashion illustration. Antonio Lopez is the Picasso of fashion illustration. He captured the pulse of style from the 60s to the 80s, and is still revered as the most inspiring illustrator by today's practitioners. He always chooses exaggerated colors, whose bright color contrast and beautiful image brought different visual impacts to people. The use of colorful, bold images can enrich the visual impact of the design by providing a stark contrast to the muted, solid color of the minimalist design elements. I think people like sensational and visual impact, that is why people called Antonio Lopez is the Picasso of fashion illustration. He could seize it!

Fashion illustrator- René Gruau

René Gruau was a famous fashion illustrator whose exaggerated portrayal of fashion design through painting has had a lasting effect on the fashion industry. René Gruau was born Renato Zavagli Ricciardelli delle Caminate in Rimini, Italy , on February 4, 1909,  Gruau was the son of an Italian count but instead of following in his father's footsteps and accepting the job of royal military commander his passion and inclination for arts led him to a love and pursuance of fine arts. His talent in the art of drawing allowed him to earn his living. 

In 1940’s and 50’s, he became a favorite of high fashion world, worked with Femina, Marie-Claire, L'Officiel, L'Album Du Figaro and other “high-style” magazines. Creating for them dramatic visual statements of sophistication and glamour, capturing the essence of the fashion and conveying elegance with his brush. From my point of view, Illustrations were intensely very important in the haute couture world. With his stunning, passionate, figures, his arresting use of color and dramatic, explosive element of line, Rene Gruau developed his distinctive “ New Look,” Gruau reached the peak of his career in the Art Deco Era, also known as the period of " New Look." Gruau's illustrations reinvented many of the designs and gave them lambency and radiance that the fashion industry previously lacked. In the 1940's which greatly impacted haute couture, theatre, art, and commercial design. Gruau's style combined seductive sophistication with classic beauty, grace and sensual elegance.With clean images and normal colors and simple but strong lines, graceful in motion or repose. Gruau rejected the fine lined watercolour illustration that were in style around 1910 to 1930, his style was heavy and powerful, preferring to define his image using minimal heavy brushstrokes. His striking images comprised of bold lines, minimal colour and clever use of perspective captured the imagination of the public and he also won René international fame.