London Fashion Week

London Fashion Week passed recently and I worked up a couple of sketches as fashion illustrations.

Starting with Issa London’s show from Tuesday 23rd February. Brazillian Daniella Issa Helayel’s range of slick tight leather pants, heavy shades, high hair, the dresses short with a slink confidence.

Directly before Issa’s show, Burberry Prorsum were one of the many fashion houses streaming live around the globe. Burrberry offered said service in 3D. Christopher Bailey oversaw this forces inspired range, taking us back to a Britain at war with references to aviator jackets, military tailoring & twists of combat.

The collection was romantically and indisputably British.
You can see the show as it was broadcast by clicking here.

I started with some pencil sketches that were based on the catwalk shows. A majority of LFW’s shows were streamed at LFW’s website during the week. After refining these by hand, the sketches were then scanned into Photoshop, re-worked in Illustrator, and then some final touches added back in Photoshop.

Issa’s collection had strong, vivid styling thus the clean image here in comparison to the vintage look inspired by Christopher Bailey’s nostalgic collection.

Part of my experience in the fashion industry required drawing designs (or flats) in order to communicate concepts to a factory who would in turn to work them up into an actual garment.
Do get in touch if you need you ideas or designs visualised or require help with technical garment illustrations.