5. Helmut Newton - Tenarra

Helmut Newton was a German born fashion photographer. His interest in photography started when he bought his first camera at age 12. He worked for a German photographer known as Yva from 1936 but was forced into a concentration camp in 1938 due to his Jewish decent. He left Germany soon after and found himself working as a reporter for the Straits times and as a portrait photographer.

Newton was sent to Australia by the British authorities in 1940 and in 1946, post war, set up his studio and worked as a Fashion and theater photographer. His first exhibition was with Wolfgang Seivers in 1953. He began a partnership with Henry Talbot which would continue on after he left for London.

Due to his growing reputation he landed a contract with the British Vogue. Talbot continued with the business affairs. Newton left London for Paris before the end of his 12 month contract where he continued his work with magazines. Throughout this time he shaped himself an iconic style that often featured erotic and sado-masochistic subtexts. His original works went on to be sold for over $20,000.

www.helmutnewton.com/

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helmut_Newton

www.designboom.com/history/helmutnewton.html

user.tninet.se/~ryk484d/newton/newton.html

www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/newton_helmut.htm

1. Natalie Kiryk - SASS & BIDE

Sass & Bide is an Australian fashion label, internationally acclaimed and recognized for its quirkiness and over the top styling. It was founded by Sarah-Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton in 1999. The label began life as a stall on London's Portobello Road, then rose to fashion heights with their now famous denim designs.

The label launched with innovative and unique denim designs. Within two years, the collection expanded into seasonal ready-to-wear. The Sass & Bide style is inspired by the obscure & the beautiful - a unique style for women who appreciate a quirky yet ultimately sexy aesthetic.

Sarah-Jane and Heidi set out to design the type of clothes they wanted to wear. A 'great fitting jean that sits super low and is super sexy' was created with stretch denim and a 2-inch zip. An unusually strong word-of-mouth sparked a demand for the particular pair of jeans.

Today, the Sass & Bide range offers not only innovative new shapes and detailing in denim, it also features an extensive and luxurious fashion range which showcases twice a year on the runway at New York Fashion Week. Their famous and highly-coveted denim collections also feature body hugging jackets, play suits, skirts, dresses and mini skirts. Vests, bibs and harnesses along with innovative belts and accessories, grand embellishments such as sequins, diamantes, studs, feathers and much more are setting the trends.

On March 8, Sass and Bide received the Veuve Clicquot Business Award 2010.

Sass and Bide Wikifashion

Sass and Bide - e-boutique - accoutrement

Sass and Bide Clothing

Vogue Australia

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Sandra Suy -Tom Walgers

Sandra Suy (1977) Barcelona first trained as a fashion designer before becoming a renowned fashion illustrator noted for the balance, simplicity and the expressive quality of her work.

Her images are of men and women, portraits and figures and are composed of clean, expressive lines often over organic textures and washes, simple refined palettes and usually a point of emphasis where she introduces fine detail. Often there is a contrast between the weight of the line or the texture of the fill or wash.

Sandra makes use of multiple mediums and notably combines analogue methods with digital tools rather than eschewing one for the other.

Making use of both methods, Sandra’s restraint and simplicity of composition distinguishes her from other illustrators in a time digital saturation.

She uses digital techniques, often a watercolour wash or an organic texture, to augment or complement the figure rather than dominate the image.Her application of organic layers through a digital process achieves a clean and controlled rendering without limiting the expressive quality of the medium. The result is a striking balance which makes sense considering her ambitions as an illustrator revolve around remaining relevant “try[ing] to make illustrations that will not perish in time; something you can look at in 10 years and will not seem passé, “out of step.”

In determining the quality of an illustration Sandra refers to the image’s ‘aura’. This is significant insofar as the carefully defined subject of each image is expertly expressed through her method.

http://sandrasuy.com/

http://www.patriciomaya.com/sandrasuy.htm

www.dripbook.com/sandrasuy/profile/

www.myspace.com/sandrasuy

www.iqons.com/SANDRA+SUY

Matisse - Tom Walgers

French artist Henri Matisse (1869 -1954) was commissioned to create the costumes for the Russian Ballet's version of 'The Nightingale' by Igor Stravinksky. A departure from art, costume design provides an interesting link between Matisse's early fig ratite fine art in a more traditional sense and the collage and abstraction that occupied him in his later years. Famed for his bold and ingenious use of colour, simplicity of composition, and 'flat' aesthetic it would seem a natural movement between art and design, and interestingly in much of Matisse's figurative work there is a preoccupation with design in particular attention to textiles, patterns, furniture and clothing.

The costumes are abstract consisting of a heavy textile robe and head-dress with geometric patterns said to represent the deer native to the play. The pattern features the interest Matisse had in Asian minimalism and printmaking.

artsearch.nga.gov.au/Detail.cfm?IRN=107621

www.art.com/gallery/id--a35-b20122-c23944/henri-matisse-costume-fashion-fine-art-prints.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Matisse

www.henri-matisse.net/

www.artchive.com/artchive/M/matisse.html

7. Natalie Kiryk ~ MIES VAN DER ROHE

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1886 – August 17, 1969, was a German architect.He was self-educated and a pioneer of modernism in his time. Whilst highly regarded in the architect world he also designed modern furniture. Most famous for the Barcelona chair and table, the Brno chair and the Tugendhat chair. At the time these were new industrial technologies that have now become popular classics around the world.

The Barcelona chair was designed for the German Pavilion, that country's entry for the International Exposition of 1929, which was hosted by Barcelona, Spain. An icon of modernism, the chair's design was inspired by the campaign and folding chairs of ancient times. By transposing an ancient and regal design into a modern setting, the designers enjoyed instant acclaim, by royals and many others.

Mies furniture is known for fine craftsmanship, a mix of traditional luxurious fabrics like leather combined with modern chrome frames, and a distinct separation of the supporting structure and the supported surfaces, often employing cantilevers to enhance the feeling of lightness created by delicate structural frames.

The Barcelona chair was manufactured in the US and Europe in limited production from the 1930s to the 1950s. In 1953 Mies sold the rights to Knoll, knowing that his design patents were expired. This collaboration then renewed popularity in the design and is still seen today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tugendhat_chair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brno_chair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_chair

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modern_furniture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Mies_van_der_Rohe

Heather Ross

Heather Ross

Heather Ross is an illustrator and designer who separates her time between the California coast and the hills of Vermont where her childhood home and much of the inspiration behind her art can both be found. Heather learned to sew and to knit before she turned six, and has been designing patterns and clothing since she was ten.

Heather traveled to San Miguel De Allende, Mexico to pursue a graduate degree in Fine Arts, with a specialization in Folk Art and Textiles. Returning to California in 1994, Heather studied fabric printing in Mendocino with Lolli Jabobsen, and fell in love with the medium of silk-screening.

Heather first became noticed notoriety as the creator behind the much famous children's apparel brand Munki Munki, known for its quirky prints and styling. Heather's conversational prints often celebrated the themes and images from her own childhood spent in the dilapidated farmhouses, swimming holes, and thick woods that defined a "back to the land" Vermont childhood in the 1970's.

In 2003, Heather introduced a women's pajama line under the Munki Munki label. In 2004, Heather was approached by an established manufacturer and eventually partnered with them to offer the Munki Munki PJ line, happily turning over the manufacturing, and distribution of her fast-growing company, freeing her to focus on other creative opportunities while continuing to create new designs and fabrics for the Munki Munki brand.

http://heatherross.squarespace.com/

http://www.freespiritfabric.com/core-pages/designer_detail.php?des_id=24

http://heatherross.squarespace.com/journal/

http://www.reprodepot.com/heatherross.html

http://www.earthgirlfabrics.com.au/collections/heather-ross

Hiroshi Tanabe Fashion Illustrator

Hiroshi Tanabe is a Japanese Fashion Illustrator based in New York.' He specializes in illustrations that resemble traditional Japanese woodcuts shown in a unique and vibrant light.

Coming from a Graphic design background Tanabe furthered his understanding of art through study of art and sculpture. This matched with his degree in design gave a modern take on these traditional designs.As his career has progressed so has his style, becoming more refined and layered. In order to show case his work Tanabe has published two books each contributing to his desired result; An avenue to establish his “own personal work without having to deal with theme, concept and category...works that are not related to (his) career but still express 100% of (himself).”

The first was called ‘Blue Mode’ and the second ‘#2.’ His unique take illustration and design attracted Gold Awards for from the New York Art Directors Club.

His book "#2" was published after he returned to Japan for several of exhibitions of his work, which were shown within the book.

Since then Hiroshi has exhibited his illustrations internationally and has continued with commissions from clients including Anna Sui, Shiseido, The New York Times, The New Yorker, Lloyd & Co., etc.

hiroshitanabe.com

http://www.vogue.co.uk/biographies/100806-hiroshi-tanabe-biography.aspx

http://forums.thefashionspot.com/f81/hiroshi-tanabe-illustrator-46497.html

http://bumbumbum.me/2010/12/30/hiroshi-tanabe-%C2%A0illustrator/

http://trendland.net/2011/01/12/hiroshi-tanabe-illustrations/