FIG Auction 5
No.5
This month FIG is excited to celebrate the international collections with FIG Auction 5 inspired by and featuring, key looks from the spring/summer 2020 ready to wear shows.
FIGAF Miami
FIG is delighted to announce FIGAF Miami, the fourth edition of FIGAF; the Fashion Illustration Gallery Art Fair that connects art collectors with the work of the world’s leading contemporary fashion illustrators.
Jacky Blue / FIG Unframed Sept 2019
FIG is delighted to present Jacky Blue the illustrator and artist.
Blue, formerly known as Jacky Marshall, a Brit who since graduating from the RCA in 1988, has been working deep in fashion in NYC for the likes of Donna Karen and Calvin Klein. Her drawings, widely admired, by all with whom she worked have been under wraps from all those outside the inside.
David Downton / FIG Unframed July 2019
FIG is delighted to announce that David Downton is the latest in a growing list of world class talent to have given us access to his studio draws so we can present unframed, the unedited, unvarnished and in some cases unfinished works crafted, cut, torn and in some cases scribbled on DD's knee at FROW #Couture.
FIG Auction 4
'Violets are Blue...'
FIG is delighted to present Violets are Blue. FIG’s fourth online auction to date. New works by Tanya Ling, Jacky Blue and for the first time through FIG, Jordi Labanda and John Booth.
Blair Breitenstein / FIG Unframed May 2019
Blair Breitenstein / FIG Unframed
Saturday 18th May, 2019. 10am - 7pm
FIG is delighted to announce that Blair Breitenstein, all the way from New York City is coming to London Town with a new body of work that will be showcased at The Shop at Bluebird, Covent Garden on Saturday 18th of May. Direct from the artist's studio, the collages represent a new direction in the artist's oeuvre.
RTW A/W 2019 / FIG Unframed March 2019
Seen through the eyes of some of the world's leading fashion illustrators and image makers, RTW A/W 2019 / FIG Unframed presents an opportunity to reconsider the shows and key looks that stood out and captured the attention of those whose medium is chalk, charcoal, pencil, pen, watercolour and wash.
Daisy de Villeneuve / FIG Unframed
Known for her playful and colour-rich portraits, Daisy de Villeneuve has made a new body of work that combines her signature felt tip technique with water colour. The head and shoulder imagery takes its inspiration from Warhol’s Tattooed Woman Holding Rose, circa 1955, and Peter Blake’s, Loelia, World’s Most Tattooed Lady, 1955.
Saturday 16th February, 2019, 10 - 7pm.
Drawing Fashion in Madrid
Image: Jean-Philippe Delhomme, 2008
Back in 2011 Madrid’s Museo ABC, Europe’s only museum dedicated to drawing and illustration, staged a show of the work of Carlos Saenz de Tejada who illustrated Paris fashion during the 1930s straight from the ateliers of Chanel, Lanvin and Schiaparelli. And now the artist’s work has inspired the museum to take a fresh look at contemporary illustrators; ‘Drawing Fashion’, which includes work from Francois Berthoud, David Downton and Mats Gustafson, opens next week.
FIGAF Edition 3
FIGAF. The world's first and only art fair dedicated to Fashion Illustration.
Roman Chic
Italian polymath Andrea Ferolla is one half of the creative duo behind the super stylish Roman boutique, Chez Dédé, who have now created a book that celebrates the essence of their home country’s style.
Starmaker
Richard Bernstein is swinging back into focus thanks to a new Rizzoli monograph, Richard Bernstein Starmaker by Roger and Mauricio Padilha.
Rosie McGuinness / FIG Unframed September 2018
Sunday 16th September, 2018, 12pm - 6pm.
Helen Bullock / FIG Unframed June 2018
For one day only. Saturday, 30th June. Previously unseen work.
Tanya Ling x Araks
The London-based artist has teamed up with luxury swimwear brand Araks to produce a colour-rich capsule collection.
Richard Haines x Moore & Giles
A prolific artist is applying his elegant drawings to a new leather goods collaboration.
Fahren Feingold x Fleur de Mal
Lingerie is reimagined in this new, ethereal New York show.
DD 21
What happens when the world’s most feted fashion artist looks back on two decades of shows with a new tome?
FIG flies the Nest
A Chelsea favourite is moving to the heart of the West End and FIG is moving into this stunning new concept store too.
Hotel Majestic
Illustrator, designer and fashion’s favourite young polymath, Luke Edward Hall is now showing new work in Soho.
Last summer, when Luke Edward Hall was on one of the many tantalizing European trips he regularly posts on his Instagram account, he had an epiphany.
FIG X Anya Hindmarch
Image: Gill Button, 2017
Wrap up warm! For one cold night only FIG will be presenting works by four of the world's most successful women artists who are making fashion illustration today.
FIGAF Edition 2
Fashion Illustration Gallery Art Fair, Edition 2, in partnership with Yu Capital. Friday 30th June to Sunday 2nd July 2017, at The Shop at Bluebird, 350 King’s Road, Chelsea SW3 5UU.
Haines & Ling
For one night only in a hired space on Baker Street, Richard Haines from Brooklyn NYC will sharpen his pencils and cross paint brushes and wax crayons on paper with Londoner Tanya Ling.
FIGAF Edition 1
FIGAF, the Fashion Illustration Gallery Art Fair hosted at The Shop at The Bluebird, on Saturday December 10th and Sunday December 11th. The first edition of #FIGAF brings together some of the world's most brilliant artists who have created hand crafted fashion images.