It’s not often you see fashion illustrations reflect a real woman’s body. You are more likely to see spindly legs that taper off into oblivion or a waist that has the circumference of a pencil. Hell, if real life human models don’t reflect reality why would a fashion illustration, something that’s created at the whim of the artist, fare any better?
I have been noticing the Japanese Mia Matsumoto’s illustrations for Justine Picardie’s column in Stella magazine (the style supplement for the Sunday Telegraph) for a while now and thought they were a bit different from the norm. They’re very pretty and girly whilst not alienating and looking ‘too’ fashion-y if you know what I mean.
Here are some of my favourites along with Picardie’s very funny articles!
Plain Beautiful // Art for Art’s Sake// Legging It // Transparent Reasoning
Tightening the Belt //Take to Your Heels // Shorts Shrift // Shine On // How do you like your T?
I love the illustrations – very different to any other fashion drawings out there. I’m going to print one out and put it on my desk! Thanks for all your interesting art/design articles 🙂
I just wrote about Justine Picardie too- I enjoy her columns a lot.
The illustrations for ‘Take to your Heels’, and ‘Shorts Shrift’ are my favourites.
Love these illustrations! They are darling & whimsical. Love your site too..
Yes exactly…I love the whimsicality of the illustrations. Very playful and somehow doesn’t take the fashion thing too seriously.
she does the illustrations for the dutch ellegirl sometimes
she does the illustrations for the dutch ellegirl sometimes