Archive for January, 2008
The mens’ cape is undoubtedly one of the coolest pieces of clothing ever invented. It’s been around since the middle ages in Europe, when knights would wear them into the battlefield. The utility of the heavy cloak (a very long cape) was rediscovered in the 19th century, when they were worn to keep [...]
January 29th, 2008 | Posted in Fashion, Futurism, Sketches | No Comments
A good friend of mine recently asked me why I draw only ladies fashion. Good question..? The end result of the conversation was that I should start drawing fashion for men, because it would be cool (and give some ideas for men on how to dress.) Aside from the generic ‘how to [...]
January 27th, 2008 | Posted in Fashion, Sketches | 1 Comment
The bad news: I didn’t update for quite awhile. The good news: My scanner works again! I resurrected the software. Sort of. That means tons of sketches will be uploaded to my blog from now on. I did this sketch in class and coloured it at home.. Not much [...]
January 25th, 2008 | Posted in Fashion, Sketches, Uncategorized | No Comments
Over the past season or so, I’ve been watching male trenchcoats creep from the runway back into mainstream fashion. Burberry, Hugo, Klein, and Armani have all released some sort of trench. It makes life in rainy places so much more bearable when you have something wicked to throw on to keep out the [...]
January 8th, 2008 | Posted in Fashion | No Comments
The 1920s were years of change across the world – particularly for women. Women began to embrace all things modern and stylish, without regard to the stricter conventions of bygone eras, with this trend peaking around 1926-1928, the years of the Flappers. These daring women wore short limb-revealing dresses, lots of makeup and [...]
January 8th, 2008 | Posted in Fashion, Sketches | No Comments
Suffice it to say that Pierre Cardin was the most prominent pioneer of Space Age fashion. He helped popularize a modern, minimalist look that rocked the world and is now making something of a comeback.
These cool boots are so retro that they’d actually be the leading edge of mod fashion on the streets [...]
January 4th, 2008 | Posted in Fashion, Futurism, Shoes | No Comments
I believe that shopping for fashion can be reasonably affordable – just because your high-roller friend gets her shoes from Lanvin doesn’t mean you have to, to look [nearly] as good as she does. Nine West carries a wide variety of trendy shoes that look great, an they cost about 1/4 of what you’d [...]
January 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Fashion, Shoes | 1 Comment
Yeah, yeah … We’ve all heard man-bags take serious flak from ‘real men’. But if you can pull one of these off, then you have some serious mojo. Aside from being convenient (since when have you been able to carry all sorts of manly stuff around with you?!), these guy bags make you [...]
January 3rd, 2008 | Posted in Fashion, How To | No Comments