“Creating a drawing comes from within; I don’t think you can beat that.” Erin Peston, Fashion Illustrator.
From Charles Dana Gibson, Jeanne Paquin and Coco Chanel to Mary Quant, Manolo Blahnik and Karl Lagerfeld – the tradition of fashion illustration has long documented society’s sartorial landscape.
Where the factual meets fantasy, fashion illustrations distil a moment in time draping and dressing the human form through the attitudes and coveted trends of generations.
Fast-forward half a century to the current digital landscape where pixel-perfect images saturate fashion blogs and magazine editorials. Due to it’s freshness, fashion illustration has fast-regained momentum as an art form.
A purely authentic expression, putting the pen to paper is a more personal experience for the creator and consumer.
Championing the fashion illustration phenomena, the authority on fragrance, Glasshouse Fragrances has teamed up with seven graduates from the Whitehouse Institute of Design to bring to life Glasshouse Fragrances’ iconic Destination Collection.
Fashion houses have long bottled the spirit of their muses and collections for decades, and this latest fashion-fragrance amalgamation maintains the magic of hypnotising the senses of smell and sight.
Visit Bora Bora, Galapagos, Montego Bay, Cuba and Manhattan time and time again with the sensory gratification of art and fragrance combined.
Glasshouse Fragrances and Australia’s next generation of designers inspire an exotic new world of the sumptuous candles with emotive to create the SS15 version of fragrance uniting with fashion.
The resulting images from Brooke Whitlock, Brigitte May, Gretchen Geoghegan, Jessica Watson, Katrina McDonald, Lydia Kennedy and Sebastian Ovalle Casanova are a showcase of the incredible emerging talent from the Whitehouse Institute of Design.
Follow the progress of the illustrations exclusive to Glasshouse Fragrances Instagram with #fragrancemeetsfashion.
In the tradition of fashion-fabulous partnerships Glasshouse have also partnered with the incomparable illustrator Megan Hess to launch their Christmas collection. Stay tuned…
