You know I love so much the topic of alternative promoting of fashion.

Now, here’s what I’ve discovered: in Elle Spain April issue, Ulrich Schroder transported some of the top world designers into the Disney world. Karl Lagerfeld, John Galliano, Marc Jacobs, John Paul Gaultier, Dolce & Gabbana and Donnatella Versace, just to list a few, have been illustrated as everybody’s beloved cartoon characters. Naturally, I instantly thought about these cartoons as a way of promoting in fashion. Totally different and totally viral.

Just look at them and say if you wouldn’t simply love to spread the news, or more exactly the cartoons!

“All creation is just recreation - a new way of seeing the same things and expressing them differently.” Yves Saint Laurent 

A collection is a set of garments and accessories, designed and produced for sale to retailers or to direct customers, for a season or a particular occasion, and presented in a variety of forms, some of them being: catwalk shows, lookbooks, websites. 

Chanel, Haute Couture Fall 2010.

A collection can be inspired by a particular trend, theme, cultural, historic or social setting. 

For example, in its Fall 2010 Haute Couture collection, Chanel used as inspiration medieval costumes worn not only by princesses, but also by peasants. As a result, one have oversize silhouettes, jewel tones and highly adorned garments.

In further posts, we’ll talk about who and what is involved in the process of developing a collection, from sketching to its promotion. 

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We’ve been learning about how to draw textures in a previous post. Now, I’m proposing to you a drawing exercise for the weekend. 

Find a bunch of images of garments you like, haute couture is better, as it usually has more complex textiles and textures, and let the drawing party begin. 

Here’s a nice example of illustrated textures: the Atelier Versace Fall 2008 collection and the related illustrations.