After 6 months of research and preparation, the Fashionary mens edition will be launched in early August. In the meantime, the templates are open to download.

Download the template (PDF):
http://fashionary.org/download/mens_sketch.pdf

The mens template works in the same way as the womens, to serve as a tool for instant sketching and at the same time it can be treated as blank page.

Sketching Sample:

Our pick of the menswear SS11:

The Blood of McQueen

Lee McQueen’s last collection. A lot of velvet and especially the red one are used. And this spread to D&G, Alexander Wang, Altuzarra, and Zac. I can predict the blood of McQueen will flowing in the next season.

Gothic Queen

Fur-nista

Are you a Fur-nista? If yes, this winter you can enjoy wearing huge fur on your body! On shoulders? On the head? On legs or on the whole body? Enjoy the outfits with Channel, Lavin, Marc Jacob , Michael kors, Versace and MMM! They combine fur smartly.

Oversized Outwear

The oversized, unsymmetrical outer wears hit in this season.  I especially like Celine one! How about you?

In the Name of Army

Want to get the best military outer wears for this winter? Burberry, Fendi, Junya Watanabe, Moschin cheap and chic, Top shop unique and Twenty8Twelve…… from high brand to high street fashion, you can easily pick up one on the runway!!

Floral Garden

Continue with SS10, flower prints going in this season with no doubt. Among all, Christopher Kane would probably be my perfect choice!

Cut-outs Under Bust

Cut-outs under bust is my favorite trend. The style makes women look so sexy and at the same time trendy and gorgeous. I think Alexander Wang, Preen, Julien Mcdonald, Miu Miu and Prada all did a very good job!

In a Kaleidoscope

The Complicated and repeated pattern outfits which make you like you are situated in a kaleidoscope! Make up and dress up with Proenza Schouler, Tsumori Chisato, Givenchy, Anna Sui, Etro or Basso and broke now!

The fashion illustration is an unique art. You need to strike a balance between the whole drawing and the details of the garment. This is why it is very hard to master. If you miss our PART 1, you can take a look at here. And we would love to continue to sequent below.

1) Danny Roberts, based in California, USA

Danny’s artwork was honored by being the first featured portfolio of 2007 Graduates on the WGSN Generation Now Website, a unique showcase of graduating talent from the world’s leading universities and design colleges.

Despite his young age, he has been widely known, especially when you consider his publications. Being one of my favorite fashion artist, you can find a more detailed interview we did here.

2) Ruben Toledo, based in New York, USA

Ruben Toledo was born in Havana, Cuba in 1961 and is at once a painter, sculptor, illustrator, fashion chronicler and critic, and surrealist. He has designed mannequins, store windows, award statuettes, scarves, fabrics, dishes and carpets. His collaboration with his fashion designer wife, Isabel Toledo, was the subject of both a book and a museum exhibition titled Toledo/Toledo: A Marriage of Art and Fashion at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City.

3) Masaki Mizuno, based in Tokyo, Japan

Masaki’s works involves the expression of the inner psychology; a self reflection mirrored through art. In order to express the vision and subject matter of my work, he find that it is important to extract ideas from within my own perspective and senses. His work is analogue, hand painted with acrylic, air-brush, and rollers

4) Fifi Lapin, based in England.

The Martin Margiela in the fashion illustration field. Her personal profile is not well known. But she really get a unique type of drawing style and character. The most stylish rabbit in the world!

5) Frederick Watson, based in Toronto, Canada

Frederick launched a series of fashion-inspired posters which quickly became hot collector’s items in Toronto in the 60s. These were dramatic and elegant studies in black and white. I love his style, one of the most traditional elegance of stroke and which is highly missed nowadays.

6) Antoine Helbert, based in Strasbourg, France

Antoine Helbert is a master painter, sculptor and illustrator. His styles of graphic, fashion, history, and advertising are very different, but equally outstanding. And the content of the illustrations are the most interesting thing to look at.

7) Alberto Seveso, based in Italy

Alberto’s style of illustration is stunningly amazing and unique. His use of layering and texturing make the illustration like a piece of art.

8) Vincent Bakkum, based in Helsinki, Finland

Born and raised in Holland, graphic designer Vincent Bakkum has lived in Helsinki for the past two decades. He describes his aesthetic as such: “in love with the graphic qualities of a woman — her outlines, her bone structure, the shadows under the nose and lips, the knuckles of long slender fingers, the lightfall on her calves, pitch black, cheek-brushing eye lashes.”

9) Hannah Muller, based in Sweden

I adore Hannah’s style so much. Detailed and contemporary stroke with earth tone color. I would be so happy to see more art piece come out from her.

10) Leigh Viner, based in USA

Leigh is an artist in different media like painting, drawing, photographic and make-up. Her versatile skill definitely border her style. She has a gorgeous style but at the same time you can smell a rawness from them which make it very interesting. Adore them!

Here is an interview of Leigh.

11) Mats Gustafson, based in New York, USA

Mats studied costume and stage design at the Scandinavian Drama Institute in Stockholm and in 1978 had his first fashion illustrations published in British Vogue. He has painted for a host of international designers including Comme des Garcons, Chanel and Yohji Yamamoto and has collaborated with corporate clients such as Galeries Lafayette, Nike and Bergdorf Goodman. In 1993 and 1998 Galerie Bartsch and Chariau, Munich published limited edition catalogues dedicated to his work.

12) Masaki Ryo, based in Tokyo, Japan

His ability to capture the endearing and playful nature of our canine companions has caught many an eye and has earned the recognition of various clients including the renowned stationary company Caspari, Inc. They have released a line of products featuring Masaki’s illustrations, including but not limited to his artwork of dogs, which have been very popular in the US, Europe, and Japan.

13) Wendy Plovmand, based in Copenhagen, Denmark

A contemporary style of illustration, Wendy combine a graphical approach into fashion illustration using mix media. She work independently with design, illustration and art since 2001 and has various exhibitions in London and New York.

14) Niki Pilkington, based in USA

Niki Pilkington is an illustrator who spends her time between Wales and London, focusing on fashion work, having been a fashion illustration student at college. Her work featured here is a very wholesome combination of style in two senses. One is in the fashion-conscious people she chooses as the subjects for her work, and the other is in the highly skilled way in which she puts this to paper.

15) Rebollo Manuel, based in Salamanca, Spain

Spanish illustrator Manuel Rebollo’s work stand out from others with his use of typography into the illustration. His use sketch manner of drawing and creates awesome artworks mostly dedicated to fashion.

16) Yuki, based in Nagoya, Japan

Yuki’s illustrations are drawn mainly with pure watercolor. He is fond of drawing fashionable works such as women, interior or a lifestyle in a delicate touch.

17) Reilly, based in London, England

Reilly is one of the new breed of illustrators mixing the wild imagination of an artist with the obsessive skill of the apple-mac wizard.

Combining dynamic rainbows swirls, repetitions of glossy lips and painstakingly observed come-hither eyes, then layering over tags, graffiti and found objects, as well as his own cartoon characters – this makes his work instantly recognisable in all its hypnotic variety.

18) Aurore de la Morinerie, based in France

It is very easy to see Aurore’s work when you click into Susie Bubble’s blog, yes, the top banner. His work is full of Zen, reminding me of Chinese link painting with a touch of elegance.

19) Raphael Vicenzi, Brussels, Belgium

Raphael’s work combines several mediums to portray striking, powerful themes in a really unique way. His work is dark, ironic, striking and creative. It mixes various mediums, such as digital art, doodles/sketches, painting and more.

20) Kareem Iliya, based in USA

Kareem Iliya started his fashion career working with Giorgio Armani, and from 1992 also freelanced as an illustrator. His images are hauntingly full of grace and mystery. In addition to being an illustrator, Kareem Iliya is also a menswear designer. These watercolor illustrations are so inspiring. Great color sense… great everything, really.

21) Monsieur Z, based in France

You should probably came across Monsieur Z’s works lately, his works are widely mentioned in many fashion illustration book and website. His long and thin characters, architectural forms, humor and elegance are now evolving on other media, like animation.

22) Dolceq, based in Rome, Italy

Dolceq is formed by  Massimillano and Sonia. DolceQ is a sexy lovely world where butterflies, hearts, stars and women live together in a minimal, erotic futuristic style. The pair work across a huge range of projects, from music videos, art shows, designer furniture through to designer toys.

23) Montse Bernal, Barcelona, Spain

Montse Bernal is from Barcelona, Spain originally. The artist uses a variety of materials, ranging from dry media to painting, to even digital and some animations. Montse graduated in fine arts by the University of Barcelona. Bernal also is specialized in illustration in ENSAD of Paris.

24) Silja Gotz, based in Madrid, Spain

Silja Goetz is working for some of the biggest names in publication and product. Nike, Vogue, Cosmo, and Nylon tout her work among others. From portraiture and product integration to her more pensive personal work, her illustrative style evokes emotion and warmth.

25) Nice Lopes, based in Sao Paulo , Brazil

Nice has a distinctive style: sharp color, digital, collage of pattern. And she just publish a 2010 calendar which I love it so much!

26) Sandra Suy, based in Barcelona, Spain

Sandra Suy  loves drawing people , especially beautiful women with beautiful dresses.

27) Victoria Ball, based in Gloucestershire, England

Victoria has produced artwork for a broad range of clients and markets both in the UK and Internationally. She continues to enjoy illustrating for magazines, merchandising, advertising and packaging. Her mixed media style is achieved by digitally combining, through the use of Adobe Photoshop, hand drawn and painted elements with photography and sourced pattern.

28) Francois Berthoud, based in New York, USA

Francois’s early work has been published by Vanity directed by Anna Piaggi, and then in Numero, The NewYorker, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times Magazine, Mixte, V magazine, Amica, Uomo Vogue, Vogue Italy, Vogue Nippon, Visionaire.
His work has been exhibited worldwide in solo and group shows and has appeared in many reference books. Francois Berthoud lives and works in Milan and New York.

29) Montana Forbes, USA

Montana Forbes is a self-taught artist with a Graphic Design (BA degree) background.

Her objective is simplicity with a unique perspective, sensitivity to form, line and an intrinsic sense of colour inherited from growing up between the USA, Southern Africa and the U.K. Her work is featured on numerous book covers, in magazine articles and art books world wide.

30) Susan Burghart, based in Seattle, USA

Susan Burghart comes from a graphic design background but also recently studied illustration in London. Susan’s style is a mix of retro art — deco, nouveau, pop, and general 20th century nostalgia, though her goal is to keep the work new and interesting at the same time. Susan’s work has been featured by R.E.D. (helmet line of Burton Snowboards), Spunky Clothing U.K., Worth Global Style Network (WGSN) and Computer Arts magazine.

We are in Colette, thanks Karmuel, Ronnie and Sarah!

You bring away the color from this world…..

Color is one of the most important design element and every seasons, companies pay a huge amount of money try to invent new color or to stay with the color trend. And in this post, we explore some more about color, like generators, or color research tool.

Color Wheel

To understand color, you need to under the color wheel first

In the color wheel, we have 2 formula formed:

Analogous colors – any three colors which are side by side on a 12 part color wheel, such as yellow-green, yellow, and yellow-orange. Usually one of the three colors predominates.

Complementary colors – any two colors which are directly opposite each other, such as red and green and red-purple and yellow-green. In the illustration above, there are several variations of yellow-green in the leaves and several variations of red-purple in the orchid. These opposing colors create maximum contrast and maximum stability.

Color Mode (Spot color, RGB, CMYK……)

This is one of the technical terms that many fashion designers get confused.

For simplification, we can classify the color into 2 categories: Screen and Pigment

For screen, a very wide range of color can be displayed

• RGB
• CMYK(generated, not 100% exactly with the real pigment)
• Spot Color(generated, not 100% exactly with the real pigment)
• HSV
• Lab Color

Still, the screen can’t be display some kind of color, like florescence and luminous color

For pigment, we have

• Spot color, which is formed by mixing different chemical (PANTONE or some other color palette)
• CMYK, very common in normal color-printed, mixing Cyan, magenta, yellow and black by dots to form different color

So, we normally use RGB color mode when displaying on the screen, and CYMK, spot color for printout, and spot color for textile.

Color Trend Posts [Updated 15/02/10]

Fashiontribes

Fashion Trendsetter

Color Sizzle

Fashionising

SICO

Color Research

Idee

Select a color, and it can find the respective photo for you.

Color Generator

4096 Color Wheel

Color Explorer

Color Hunter

Big Huge Labs: Color Palette Generator

Color Blender

Color Scheme Designer

DeGraeve

Color Wizard

Color Jack

ColorMunki

Colorlovers

ColoRotate

kuler

Stripe Generator

Aviary

COPASO

If you have any more color resources, please let me know.

FASHIONARY is an on going project, so I am always looking for feedback. And I received a number of requests for modifying the current technical templates. Thanks a lot! Today I update it and you can download here.

The Changes

Now, we can use the templates more easily for both sides.

Here is an exmaple, I spent 10 mins for a denim jacket.

If you have any other feedback, please don’t be hesitate to tell me.

Regards,

Penter

Happy 2010!

Thanks for all your support! I hope you guys have a great year and so do FASHIONARY.

Will work hard to make it the best fashion sketchbook and will bring more excitement to you guys in 2010.

Take care!

Penter

Denim is one of the oldest fabric, but still, it is one of the most fashionable and widely used fabric. And as the full jeans trend is going wildly this season, we can have a deeper look at the finishing details of your jeans. And somehow, denim has the most sophisticated finishing. Some of the techniques found below can be done by yourself, like bleaching, washing and ripping.

Acid Washing

Patented in 1986, this wash uses pumice stones soaked in bleach to create deep contrast within the coloring of the denim jeans.

Batching

We can find this in many kidswear jeans and old school jacket. As Denim is a durable fabric, the batch is attached on the surface firmly.

Bleaching

A chemical used to make denim fade. Liquid bleach is usually an aqueous solution of sodium hypochlorite, and dry powdered bleaches contain chloride of lime (calcium hypochlorite).

Crushing

A textured effect achieved through a special fabric construction and wet processing. The denim jeans are woven with an overtwisted weft yarn; when the garment is washed, the yarn “shrinks,” acquiring a goffer look that is further enhanced by bleaching and stonewashing.

Dirty Washing

A finish that creates the look of stained jeans.

Embroidered

Found in many high-end denim in Japan. You can see the insanely details done by the Japanese, to replace the printing.

Frayed

A finish in which the waistband and hems of denim jeans have been sanded to create a “worn” effect.

Overdyed

A second dying process executed after denim jeans have been sewn, to make the thread color the same as the jean.

Raw

Denim jeans that has been not been treated or finished.

Screen-printing

The majority of denim is 100% cotton and very good for screen printing.

Sandblasting

A laundry process in which denim jeans are shot with guns of sand in order to make the jeans look as if they’ve been worn.

Tearing and ripping

Denim jeans that have purposely been ripped or teared — and not repaired — prior to sale.

Tinted

Denim jeans that have been dyed a second time, usually with a yellow khaki hue, to create the look of vintage denim.

Washing

The are several washing method:

Enzyme wash – Considered a more efficient and environmentally sound way to stone wash jeans. Rather than using pumice stones, organic enzymes (proteins) are used that eat away at the indigo. Jeans finished using enzymes tend to be stronger than those broken down by traditional stone washing, as the fabric is not subjected to the same level of abuse.

Sand wash – A finish achieved through a combination of pumice stones, enzymes and sand; used to create the illusion of aged denim jeans.

Stone wash – A process that physically removes colour and adds contrast. A 20 yard roll of fabric, generally 62 inches in width, is put into a 250-pound washing machine along with pumice stones. The fabric and stones are rotated together for a set period of time.

Whiskered

A denim jeans finish that produces white lines that look like wrinkles near the crotch and sometimes behind the knees.

If you have any other treatment you have done to your jeans, please leave comments.

Honestly, the SS 10 RTW is quite boring to me, with digital print still going good (the best, I really say the best, is the engineer print by McQueen), some trend are evolving  like fully denim-ize and the raw edgy. Here come the highlight of the SS 10 Trend:

Fully Digital

With the technologies allowance, the digital print can be the best option under this economic recession period. The highlight are the engineer print by McQueen and the fluid print from the up and coming Mary Katrantzou.

Jeans Factory

Denim is one of the best fabric available for its durability, stylish finishing, cheap, never-die stylish…. I am glad to see it’s in full dress. I am not surprise to see they will be seen in every main boutique store in large amount this coming spring.

Fluid Drape

Every time I see some style like this, I feel like seeing students’ work, I remembered we were doing stuff like that when we are in year 1 and the outfit is hard to dress. But I like how Burberry Prorsum and Gabriele Colangelo handle the draping and make them look awesome! This is the difference.

Inside Out

In Paris, we have Dior, in Milan, we have Dolce & Gabbana, in London, we have Christopher Kane, and NY, we have Marc Jacob. It is interesting to see how the designers bring the lingerie element into their design. I can’t say, but is this trend can be seen next season? Longing…

Pants Hole

Finally, we get some pants design, please keep going guys, I really love the Gareth’s one, subtly blend the his famous stripe to the pants. I predict these pants will be popular in store this spring.

Summer Sport

“When you are stuck in your work, go out and play some sport.” my parents always tell me. Yup, I think the designers have this ideas too, when we are in the midst of the economic meltdown, why don’t go out and relax and make some fun. Thanks Hermes, I love the tennis cardigan.

Striky Stripy

The stripe can be seen in many show this season, not in their usual form, but they turn into different style they as the form of stripe. It is one of the long lasting trend and I think we will keep seeing stripe evolving in the future.

Summer Leather

The global warming turn the weather upside down, who say we can’t have a cold spring, and yup, at that time, the leather seems to be the most stylish option. Celine does a great job on this, it look like a classic.

Raw Edgy

In the 90s, there was Martin Margiela, and now, Lanvin already used this style as their signature finishing. And we have Prada, Fendi and Jil Sander joining the party this season. But I doubt this can develop into a bigger trend.

Other Trend Reports:

Fashion Platz

Grazia Fashion

Style.com

Tangent

Trend Spark!

TrendStop