The Art of Fashion Illustration

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Paris, France

PASSION:

CAROLINE ANDRIEU

Caroline Andrieu usually uses colored inks or just simple pencils in her work. “I started to work

with lots of ink in my Årst fashion illustrations. I like that you can’t erase it, that you have to

deal with your mistakes, with the stains. The ink actually gives a lot of strength to the pictures.

Later, when I was given a big box of colored pencils, which I hated so much when I was a kid,

I started drawing with them and enjoyed it right away. The technique is very diٺerent from ink

or watercolor—it is more subtle, less free, in a way. I now try to draw with both techniques on

my illustrations.” Andrieu doesn’t sketch a lot, unless the client needs to see something Årst.

Instead she likes to Ånish an illustration the same day she starts it. “I’m not very patient. I have

to be in the same mood all the way through the process, otherwise I may not Ånish it. I draw

rather quickly so that’s not a problem for now. But I would like to work on bigger surfaces so

I have to learn patience, I think.”

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Be involved in each project as if it

is the most important one ever.

Caroline Andrieu started working as an illustrator little by little. She began her career

as a graphic designer and was drawing just for herself. After showing illustrations to

friends, and starting to share what she was creating on a blog, news of her work spread

on social networks and she landed her Årst clients. As the art director of Condu Nast

Digital France, for the Vogue and GQ websites, she was surrounded by fashion so it was

natural to include more fashion in her illustrations.

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Sasha Pivovarova for Saint Laurent Resort

2014, black pencil, by Caroline Andrieu.

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InÛmences

Andrieu is a fan of artists Hans Bellmer and-

David Hockney as well as, more recently, of

the work of Charles Burns, Elizabeth Peyton,

and Michael Gillette. She is also inspired by

contemporary photography.

Good Advice

“Be passionate. Fashion illustration is evolving

every day, more and more, and I am glad to be

part of it.”

Daiane Conterato for Dries Van Noten Spring 2014,

ink and pencil, by Caroline Andrieu (far left).

Kel Markey for Proenza Schouler Spring 2013, color

pencils, by Caroline Andrieu (left).

Mariacarla Boscono for Hermes Fall 2014, color

pencils, by Caroline Andrieu (top, left).

Lindsey Wixson for Prada Spring 2014, watercolor

by Caroline Andrieu (above).

Nastya Sten for Alexandar McQueen Spring 2014, color

pencils by Caroline Andrieu (right).

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