21st Century Romance

The classically romantic themes, which surround craftsmanship, luxury, and the pursuit of beauty, are updated with a contemporary sharpness. Delicate sheers and trims combine with dancewear in a modern take on fantasy. Humble draping and simple silhouettes feel clerical, while intricate details, aged treatments, and ornate baroque costumes add a theatrical sense of ceremonial grandeur.
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Radically Neutrality

Moderates are the new radicals, neutrality is the new spirituality and taking the middle ground becomes the most progressive choice in a world of exaggerated hyperbole and polarised extremes. Meet the new minimalism.

Successful Products Ranges
A Product Range is a group of various products based on a particular theme, colour, shape, fabric, style, pattern, concept etc.

'Behind every successful product range is an even more successful product range plan'

Adidas

- 3 Stripes, Logo, sports meets avantgarde, colour awareness

Louis Vuitton

- Logo, Pattern, Fabric

A product range plan is not merely a 'Fashion illustration'.

A successful product range plan is used to define your vision, design and intentions, Expressed on a highly creative and professional presented board.

Connie Lim Illustration

Californian designer and illustrator Connie Lim creates glamorous, dark, yet playful girls on playing cards, proving that fashion creativity really has no limits.

Inspired by avant-garde English designers Gareth Pugh and Alexander McQueen, Connie's favorite characters are fashionable gothic queens, bold, beautiful and dangerous women, with dark make-up and incredible high-heels. In fact, her illustrated queens led to an entire set of playing cards with a glamorous twist.

Connie Lim's creates her fashion illustrations using pen, ink and gouache. They have been featured in Dazzed Digital, Idol Magazine, exhibited at Gallery Nucleus along with a capsule fashion collection that embodies her feminine and dark style.



Kelly Smith Illustration

Kelly Smith is an Australian Illustrator, working predominantly in fashion and portraiture.

 She takes inspiration from fashion, film and fairytales, Kelly's fine detailed pencil work captures a likeness to her subjects, traditionally created on one layer, while watercolour and digital elements add subtle hints of colour and softness.