I started Stylishly Yours as a platform where idea's can meet real people. As a designer I'm always hunting for inspiration, looking in fashion, style and design magazines, watching fashion shows and just being on the street. I just love too sit down on a big square watching all the people walk by. One thing that I can't get my head around is the distance between what is for sale in most stores and what the real (really cool) people are wearing. It's a matter of different levels of actuality, I think. I don't look a lot at the whole oufit for a definite 'yes' or 'no'. There's always just the little things that I would like to tweak or change. Just playing with concepts as genre, color, proportion, silhouette, patterns and such. I'm far more interested in the idea's behind the way people wear clothing. I think that a lot of innovation in fashion is in the little details. Illustration is an excellent tool to experiment and paper doesn't blush, as they say here. Many say though, that fashion illustration is a dying art. I don't think so. Illustration allows you to manipulate the looks before they're even there. There are a lot of things that just cannot be accomplished by other means than illustration. Photography often doesn't even come close. But let's not get into the pro's and cons. My drawings and illustrations are a lot about suggestion to stimulate playing around with all the variables that make it so difficult to dress oneself every morning, or before going to a party. I hope you'll enjoy my works displayed below.
I want to thank Vautecouture.com and especially Leanne Hilgart for scouting me for their contest. My design philosophy is not exactly vegan and my artwork is probably not the thing for conveying the vegan message. I made it to their honourable mentions, though. Hit the button up right and cast a vote in their three coat categories!
Nowadays you don't see so many people smoking a pipe. Maybe it's one of the remnants of days long gone. I guess it's part of some kind of a very retro lifestyle. I just thought of it as to add a little bit of kink.
This one is inspired on the outfit of world war I fighter pilot outfits. There's the long white scarf and the leather helmet and goggles. The leather jacket has no (teddy) fur collar, instead it's made of a whole lot of tiny little ruffles and little flowers.
This is going to be a place for me to express myself creatively. I'm not so much of a writer, but I'm a fanatic sketcher with a passion for fashion, industrial design and concept art. The Idea is to launch my visual ideas on a regular basis. I'm hoping to get feed-back from you, visitors. If you find this interesting, please don't hesitate to subscribe to the feed of this blog, so you'll get notified of new posts.
If you're wondering how I do these visuals, here's a list of tools that I commonly use: Photoshop, Illustrator, Painter and Sketchbook Pro. My weapon of choice is the wacom intuos 3, a wonderfully sensitive sketch tablet.