November 2010
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FLASHBACK:90'S MANNEQUIN
BEFORE I BEGIN TO POST MY NEW SET OF SPRING 2011 ILLUSTRATIONS I WANTED TO FIRST POST ONE LAST FLASHBACK TO THE VERY BEGINNING. BACK WHEN I STARTED MY ILLUSTRATION CAREER I WAS WORKING WITH A MUCH LONGER FIGURE AND DOING MORE ERTE-INFLUENCED ILLUSTRATION.
THIS PIECE WAS A SORT OF TRANSITION IN THAT I FOUND THAT WHEN THE GIRLS WERE SUPER TALL THEY LOOK GLAMOUROUS BUT WERE LIMITING. WITH THOSE...
H&M FASHION VIDEO!!!! COMING SOON
FOLLOWING MY INVOLVEMENT IN THE H&M YOUR ART HERE CONTEST I WAS ONE OF THREE ARTISTS FROM OVER 800 ENTRIES ASKED BY H&M TO BE FEATURED IN ONE THEIR FASHION VIDEOS ON NYC ARTISTS. WE JUST SHOT IT THIS WEEK AND YOU WILL SEE THE RESULTS EARLY NEXT YEAR. IM LOOKING FORWARD TO SHARING IT WITH YOU ALL. HERE ARE A COUPLE OF BEHIND THE SCENES PICS.
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FLASHBACK SPRING 2008 FLORALS
IN 2008 A FRIEND ASKED ME TO CREATE A EDITORIAL FOR HIS MAGAZINE. HE SENT SOME PICS OF LOOKS HE WANTED TO HAVE ILLUSTRATED FROM SOME FAST FASHION RETAILERS AND I ADDED SOME DESIGNER LOOKS TO ROUND OUT THE STORY. AT THE TIME I WAS SO TIED UP WITH MY CUSTOM DRESS CLIENTS I HAD TO ABANDON THIS PROJECT SO IT COULDN’T BE PUBLISHED. I LOVED THE STORY SO A YEAR LATER I PULLED OUT ALL OF THE...
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FLASHBACK:SPRING 2002 VERSACE VIXEN
ANOTHER THROWBACK FROM THE SPRING 2002 SEASON. I WANTED TO ILLUSTRATE DONATELLAS REALLY STRONG COLLECTION THAT SEASON. I CANT SEEM TO RECALL WHY I CHOSE THIS PARTICULAR SETTING BUT I THINK IT WAS SOMETHING ABOUT WANTING TO PLACE A SPRING LOOK IN A FALL SETTING AND THEN FOR THE COLOR CHOICES I THOUGHT MAKING IT TECHNICOLOR WOULD MAKE IT MORE VERSACE.
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FLASHBACK:2003 PERRIER
IN 2003 I ENTERED A CONTEST SPONSORED BY PERRIER AND METROCHANNEL NETWORK AT THE TIME FOR UNDISCOVERED FASHION DESIGNERS. I WOUND UP WINNING THE CONTEST ALONG WITH $10,000. THEY WENT ON TO SPONSOR MY FASHION SHOW THE FIRST SEASON. IT WAS AT THIS TIME I CREATED THIS ILLUSTRATION
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FLASHBACK:SPRING 2002 YSL MEERKATS
USUALLY WITH MY ILLUSTRATIONS I FOCUS ON DRAWING BEAUTIFUL WOMEN IN FASHION. BUT FOR THIS PIECE I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE INTERESTING TO DRESS MEERKATS WHO STAND THIS WAY IN THE WILD IN THIS AMAZING TOM FORD YSL COLLECTION…BELOW I INCLUDED MY SOURCE PHOTOS
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BIG APPLE EDGE FOR H&M
H&M’S YOUR ART HERE CONTEST had a NYC theme. So for my entry I wanted to re-conceptualize the “Big Apple”. In my mind NYC is a glamourous, tough resilient city able to handle whatever may come. That thought led me to create this apple protected by a hard chic armor. I wanted to also incorporate a few symbolic elements: the texture of the streets, a leaf for...
