Stylishly yours - the idea

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.

Yours Stylishly

8/04/2009

Zara Campaing by David Sims

Found these images from an Ad Campaign for Zara. Photographed by David Sims. Awesome.

7/21/2009

Illustration Friday: Modify

mod·i·fy (md-f)
v. mod·i·fied, mod·i·fy·ing, mod·i·fies
v.tr.

Originates from the French 'la mode' (la mode vestimentaire), which means vogue or fashion.
1. To get into fashion
2. To make fashionable


To be or become modified; a life changing experience.

1/21/2009

Snow white

simple white dress with some experimental white boots and matching bag.

10/18/2008

Vaute Couture Design Challenge: The El

Another coat I entered in Vaute Couture's design challenge. This lady is going to her fashion editors job. In fashion like this you're never late!

Vaute Couture Design Challenge: The Vaute

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!

9/13/2008

Mermaid in corset

Combination of a mermaid dress with an overbust corset.

7/26/2008

Illustration Friday: Canned

It took me three quarters of an hour in Photoshop to can this lady.

7/21/2008

Girl in Jumpsuit on scooter

Girl in black satin jumpsuit and little yellow gloves, pumps and scarf. The scooter is a retro design of my own.

7/20/2008

Illustration Friday: Enough

This Spider woman wishes she was born a centipede....
Never enough shoes, and only four legs to wear them.

7/15/2008

Illustration Friday: Foggy 2

Another one

7/11/2008

Illustration Friday: Foggy

Themes can actually quite pretty up the fashion items you want to illustrate. Here's a pair of boots in a foggy scene. Who's giving this lady a ride?

7/08/2008

Illustration Friday: Sour

7/02/2008

Glovely

To the love of leather gloves

7/01/2008

purple

glamourous evening outfit

6/30/2008

The night out

Woman in a little black dress in a shady watercolour.


6/28/2008

Retro bathing suit

I imagine this lady on deck of a giant modern cruise ship heading for some paradise island in the southern pacific. For this pose I specially designed the surf board-like chaissé longue.

6/27/2008

A couple out of the old box

A couple of sketches from my dummy books.














































Flower girl

Flower girls dress, sugary sweetness, like a layered cake.

casual glamour

casual jeans and shirt, but glamourous patent leather gloves and boots.

6/26/2008

Lightly packed

This woman likes to travel lightly, but all essentials are packed! Glamourous boots and matching bag.

A bit strange

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.

6/25/2008

White and smooth

6/24/2008

work or pleasure

That's the dilemma. Jazzy outfit combining tough jeans and a glamourous blouse and shoes.

Bohemienne

6/23/2008

Going into the winter with flowers

Flowers use to cheer up. We need that especially during winter time. So here's a pair of boots, featuring flower embellishments, for the cold season.

6/21/2008

Cocktail

little black dress, crushed metalic organza

6/20/2008

Bee Honey

Scribbling away with black and yellow...

6/19/2008

Little green dress

shake that booty!

6/18/2008

Bridal hotpants

Spicy but romantic...

6/17/2008

2Colour Bride

Alternative Bride. Dress allows for dancing...

bold and beautiful

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.

4 piece ladies costume

This one is a 4 piece costume: shirt, wrinkled skirt and upper skirt and a little vest with matching boots.


Welcome

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.