Here is the second of my four catwalk looks. For my interpretation on London Fashion Week SS24, I explored Jessica Stam wearing Richard Quinn in the style of Inna Somova and Rusanova Olesya. I chose this design from Richard Quinn as I like the contrast between the fitted body suit and the oversized and puffy outer layer. As well as this I like the neutral colours used and the detailing in the body suit in which I tied to incorporate in my design.
One of the artists I chose was Rusanova Olesya. Rusanova Olesya is an illustrator, designer and entrepreneur. She studied not only the theory of drawing, but also the features of fabrics, design and technology of tailoring. While working she has created hundreds of unique works of art and collections of clothing. Some outfits for the Wedding of the Year 2017 were created. She worked with representatives of Simple Wine and the Ester Abner Fashion House. Her work shows quite abstract and elongated figures in which focus on shoeing of the garnet therefore making the model quite minimalistic, this is shown by the lack of facial features and detailing on the body.
The other artist I decided to use was Inna Somava. She believes “that an illustrator's mistake is an attempt to immediately follow his own style. You need to give yourself time to research, to reveal yourself, not to be afraid of experiments.” Her dream is to become a source of inspiration. She really wants people not to be afraid of changing their lives and do what they really want are what they're in love with. Her work explores the main figure being layered on top of an enlarged image of the models face, I incorporated this into my design as I really like the depth and how it draws your attention in.
For the background and presentation I decided for the background to do a painting of the Richard Quinn runway in which this outfit walked on.
For this illustration I used acrylic paint to create a textured and 3 dimensional design while trying to emulate the look of fabric and its movement. I like how this turned out and how the artists styles merge together. I drew the person in the style of Rusanova Olesya and the face in the background emulates the work of Inna Somova however inspired by the "half faces" Rusanova Olesya uses. Doing this I believe created quite a fluent and unique design in which I like the outcome of.