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BLAIR BREITENSTEIN
CARLY KUHN
JUDITH VAN DEN HOEK
MEGAN HESS
VIDA VEGA
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The Prada Woman Spring/Summer 2015 show witnessed the debut of new materials
that area symbol of skillful craftsmanship and a return to nature.

Drawing inspiration from this idea, the Prada Raw Eyewear collection is the
result of an unprecedented combination of a contemporary design and a brand new
material, wood.

The choice of black walnut and “Malabar” ebony – two precious types of wood
characterized by strength, alluring nuances and marked natural veining –
reflects the brand’s great attention to the quality of materials used. Thanks to
a special “layered” manufacturing technique, which makes the wood surprisingly
malleable, the new models ensure a lightweight feel, comfort and a perfect, snug
fit.

The natural irregularity of the wood’s veining turns each pair of glasses into a
unique creation, the utmost expression of masterly craftsmanship.





Judith van den hoek



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BLAIR BREITENSTEIN

Primarily influenced by high fashion photography, Blair Breitenstein’s
illustration practice trades in watercolors and what she calls “messy smudged
lines.”

Breitenstein was more or less discovered on Instagram.

The abstract “Expressionist” fashion musings of this Seattle artist are like a
good song—intoxicating and almost otherworldly; they’re exaggerated perceptions
of people and things, yet they come to life on the page stylistically like high
fashion’s response, more than 100 years later, to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner’s Berlin
street scenes.

Breitenstein has been drawing and painting since she was a little girl; in fact,
her grandfather was an artist, and inspired her initially.

She recently moved to New York City, and it is unclear how this change of
scenery will affect her work. But she’s happy to be living and working in the
Big Apple.

Every morning, when Breitenstein wakes up, she turns to an image library she
keeps to inspire her to paint and draw each day. This image collecting works as
a jumping-off point for her creative process.

“I love to mix water color with pastel and acrylic paint,” she says, “It creates
great texture.” She is also a master of text lettering.

You can see her work on Instagram @blairz or visit her “My Daily Drawings” blog,
Blonde Lasagna.




Responding to the all wood-construction of the Prada Raw collection,
Breitenstein fashioned her illustration style to these 1970s-styled glasses by
playing off of the back-to-nature aspects of this particular line.

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CARLY KUHN

Born and raised in New York City, Carly Kuhn currently resides in Los Angeles.
Yet her style is reminiscent of Big Apple luminaries before her—Al Hirschfield
and Maira Kalman come to mind—yet she possesses a distinctly personal touch, one
perfectly suited for the medium of magazines.

As of earlier this year, she became the CEO of The Cartorialist, her own art
studio, which you can check out on Instagram @thecartorialist

“The inspiration/motivation to get working,” she says, “is my remembering that
this is not just a hobby anymore, but a job—which is both exciting and scary.
Fear and excitement are good motivators. I feel like I’m still figuring out who
I am as an artist.”

She works almost exclusively with black ink pen and brush pen markers.

Kuhn’s New York roots, she says, will always have an effect on her work. But
after college, she moved to Los Angeles, and worked in comedy television for six
years. This led her to explore producing art full time, earlier this year.

“Los Angeles is a very nurturing city for self-employed creative types, more so
than NYC,” she says. “I don’t think if I were living in NYC I would have taken
the leap to leave my traditional job and become self-employed.”

Kuhn’s style is unabashedly fashion forward, and her pen and ink creations
respond to the news and images of the day. Like a breaking news cycle, she posts
her work-in-progress to the Internet for the world to see.


Kuhn’s work shows her responding to this notion of a spotted turtle design, and
the paint speckled-colored temples of the glasses, which give the eyewear its
own aura as an objet d’art. They are almost camouflaged works of art if
transported back to nature.

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JUDITH VAN DEN HOEK

Minimalist Dutch artist Judith Van Den Hoek admittedly likes to work in black
and white, sketching her way through preliminary ideas. Fashion blogs, print
magazines and books inspire her day to day, but it was the creative outpouring
of René Gruau that first inspired her to start drawing; she continues to channel
his whimsical simplicity into her work. A simple smudge came come to life in a
few black and white brush strokes.

“[One day] I was reading ELLE Girl and I spotted a gorgeous fashion
illustration,” she says. “That was the time I decided that I wanted to make
fashion illustrations.” Yet she say she had always drawn as a child. This just
re-focused her sketchbooks.

She credits spotting good street fashion and her daily Internet tendency as her
major motivator to work. “I love browsing through Tumblr and Pinterest,” she
says. “I can get lost for hours.”

Van Den Hoek resides in the smaller city of Gouda in Holland, which grounds her.
“[A lot of people] ask me: Aren’t you supposed to live in Amsterdam or New York
or Paris, the city of fashion?” she says. “But Gouda is the place I love to come
home to when I travel for work. Here I can find peace and quiet and I guess
that’s what I need working in this hectic industry.”

“A few years ago I used to draw everything by hand,” she says of her working
style and medium of choice. “I also didn’t know any better. Nowadays, I’m still
drawing by hand but not that often anymore. I like to draw in Photoshop.”

You can see her work at: http://judithvandenhoek.tumblr.com/


Judith Van Den Hoek’s interpretation was rooted in the blackness of the frames,
and the illusion that an unassuming hand can add; playfully juxtaposed next to
these Prada Raw designs.

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MEGAN HESS

Megan Hess was “born to draw.” An early flirtation with a career in graphic
design allowed her to rise through the ranks, as she explored what became her
glamorous “signature style:” lusciously drawn black and white portraiture;
sometimes with just the right hint of color.

Her style developed over time, reaching a pop-culture nexus with Sex and the
City when she illustrated the cover for the now-famous Candice Bushnell book.

Hess’s obsession with drawing began when she was a little girl. “I have
vivid memories of being in primary school,” she says. “I would
sketch little caricatures of my class mates. The drawings were pretty terrible,
but they did somehow look like the person. I remember feeling like I’d found a
little bit of magic.” It grew from there.

Her biggest inspiration is working on a new brief. “I really try to give a good
amount of time to the concept’s beginning stages,” she says. “Once I have a
really clear and inspiring idea in my head, I’m then like a runaway
train—sketching as fast as my hand can go. It’s also the actual process of
turning a blank white page into something with feeling.”

Hess is fortunate enough to work in many different cities and countries around
the world. “When I’m in New York, I’m working at a faster pace, and the style of
my illustrations are much more urban and sketchy,” she says. “Then when I’m
working in Paris or Milan I feel my style is more whimsical and passionate. And
lest I forget Australia—where I have my main studio—there’s always a sense of
excitement that comes through my work in that environment.”

More recently, Hess released her first written and illustrated book, Fashion
House, which is comprised of illustrated interiors from the icons of style.

No matter where she’s working, she executes almost all her work with a bespoke
Montblanc ink pen she affectionately calls “Monty.” It was custom-made to fit
her hand and drawing style, and feels weightless when she draws. “As long as I
have Monty and my sketch books,” she says, “I’m good to go.”

You can find out more about Miss Hess’s work at: http://meganhess.com/


Megan Hess’s first instinct was to capture the boldness of the Prada Raw
designs—in this case, the black frames, steel bridge and top bar—in my magnetic
black and white sketch work treatment. These frames sing the body electric.

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VIDA VEGA

Vida Vega is, first and foremost, an animator. As a student in London, she made
award-winning films. Vega also makes inkblots and fashion illustration come
alive; she literally re-imagines what is possible with a cocktail napkin
illustration.

Vega’s artist abilities transcend every medium she flirts with. She is a
wunderkind by all stretch of imagination.

When she was a child, her father taped obscure experimental animations for her
from late night BBC and Channel 4. Some of her favorite films were Yellow
Submarine (she used to day dream of being in that sparkly Lucy In the Sky with
Diamonds painterly sequence with the horse) as well as Disney classics like
Fantasia and the Little Mermaid. “Anything animated,” she says.

Her Italian grandfather, meanwhile, stockpiled Topolino Fumetti comic books for
her to read when she was visiting Italy, he parents homeland. (She grew up in
England.) Giorgio Cavazzano was her favorite: “The cleanness of his line and the
life in his expression are brilliant,” she says.

Later, Vega was a teenager she went through a few years of writing and not
drawing at all. “I was really frustrated and blocked with this feeling that I
didn’t have a ‘style’ of my own,” she says. “Then whilst sitting in the cinema
listening to ‘Beyond the Sea’ by Bobby Darin, and watching the end credits of
Finding Nemo (of all things) roll past, I had this realization that I would be
so happy to be a name amongst those names on the credit roll.”

She likes to animate by hand digitally as “it’s so responsive and you can get
instant feedback on movement.”

“With ink I love the finality of the mark,” she says. “You can’t undo, you have
to go with the drawing or start over. You can push things around on the page but
only while they stay wet. It’s nice to have these limitations to work with, it
forces you to think on your feet and loosen up. I think you can feel that energy
in a drawing.”

You can see Vega’s work at: http://vidavega.com/


Fashion Illustration Animation Test #1

"First of a series of little animation tests based on some fashiony drawings of
mine. Clothes and silly dance inspired by the amazing Prada SS11 collection"

- Vida Vega
Ladies and Gentlemen, these Prada Raw glasses are floating in space. Watercolors
and black and gray tones, in particular, helped Vida Vega re-imagine the
timeless beauty of these original designs.

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WONG PING

Hong Kong-based artist, animator and director Wong Ping thinks like a scientist.
According to him, one day he “found out that we know all the answers are wrong;
and coincidence makes us feel good about everything.” His work is a response to
that brave new world; you can see his scientific mind at work through his
neo-sexual, surrealistic studies.

Until a few years ago, he says, he didn’t know anything about art. “I started
drawing, creating and animating about five years ago. It just came out—all of a
sudden, one day,” he says. His kaleidoscopic imagery—brimming with vibrant
color—tackles nearly taboo subjects in main land China: teenage lust, shame and
sexual repression.

Ping’s biggest inspirations, he says, are hiking, anger and boredom, and not
necessarily in that order.

“Hong Kong is a stressful place,” he says matter-of-factly. “It keeps me working
16 hours a day. But it is a suppressed place.

“I only dare to speak out through my works—the feelings of anger and boredom
toward the place or even the world maybe—is one reason why my works are related
to sexual and colorful images.”

He loves working on a computer to create his work because, he says, “there’s an
undo button.”

This fall, Wong will open his first solo show in Hong Kong. You can check out
his work at: http://nowhynowhy.com/ or on Instagram @nowhynowhy


It wasn’t hard to incorporate the natural hues of the Prada Raw line into Wong
Ping’s vibrant world of bold colors and super-imposed reality; reinforcing, once
again, this notion that you gotta wear shades.

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