6 fashion illustrators on Instagram that we're obssessed with
Apple pencils at the ready, Instagram on standby...
Fashion illustration is the new way for brands to tell their stories - and it's hot on social media too. Here's who to follow for inspiration...
UNSKILLEDWORKER/Instagram@UNSKILLEDWORKER
Helen Downie's 220,000 Instagram fans include SHOWstudio's Nick Knight and Gucci's creative director, Alessandro Michele. The self-taught artist (hence the unskilled worker' moniker) was a late starter, using Instagram to document her progress. Fast-forward a couple of years and her ethereal illustration us commissioned by i-D and The New York Times, while Michele now collects her work.
BLAIRZ/Instagram@BLAIRZ
Blair Breitenstein's distinctive pastel and watercolour drawings have an otherworldy cartoonish quality. Her depictions or catwalk fashion and beauty have earned her commissions from Prada and Coach, not to mention over 88,000 ardent followers.
IDEA_DRAWINGS/Instagram@IDEA_DRAWINGS
Artist Tanya Ling's wide-eyed beauties and painted with dreamy, colourful strokes. Check out her abstract fine-art feed too, at @backyardofadream
DAVIDDOWNTON/Instagram@DAVIDDOWNTON
Downton's classic-meets-modern portraits of his fashion buddies (Joan Collins and Erin O'Connor included) are accompanied by equally captivating anecdotes.Scrolling through his feed is like peeking through his super-chic sketchbook.
BUTTONFRUIT/Instagram@BUTTONFRUIT
British artist Gill Button's evocative portraits and work-in-progress sketches have amassed over 66,000 followers. For A/W16, she hand-painted 1,200 invitations for Dries Van Noten's show, in turn inspiring the dark-eyed make-up look.
JUSTINTEODORO/Instagram@JUSTINTEODORO
This infectiously enthusiastic fashion scribbler doodles his favourite supermodel muses with magic markers. A '90s obsessive, he peppers his illustration feed with iconic fashion editorial throwbacks.
