Dancing Bears on the Loose!

A few weekends ago my ace friend Libby was helping to run the Gibson Street Gala (part of the Glasgow Westend Festival) so I decided to run a 'make your own dancing bear puppet' workshop. Glasgow is now overrun with bears....which is no bad thing...

sixty years of colour

Anyone who knows me knows I have a little bit of an obsession with the HRH Queen Elizabeth II. For years I have been meaning to start my illustration project focused on the Queen's hats, but I think I may have missed the boat as lots of others have been charting the Queen's sixty year fashion story. Two of my favorites were the colour chart put together by Vogue (above) last month and also the colour swatch card put together by Leo Burnett and Pantone. (thanks to @PollyAnders for showing me the swatch card!)

You can read more about the swatch card on Yatzer.

Puffin

Finally recieved my copy of the Puffin Classics edition of 'The Phoenix and the Carpet' by E. Nesbit! Very happy!

Secret 7"

My secret 7" is now up for auction on ebay!

All the proceeds from these special 7" vinyls go to the Teenage Cancer Trust. Have a browse of all the one-off artworks here

Front Row

Not everyone can have a 'front row' seat at London Fashion Week, so I created this 'catwalk' concertina of the AW 2012 shows! It's great to display on your shelf or fold up and keep in your Mulberry 'Del Ray' bag.

Iris Apfel

My style icon Iris Apfel! I was very excited to hear that the Maysles Brothers (Grey Gardens, Gimmie Shelter) were doing a documentray following the 'rare bird of fashion' Iris.

Iris also appeared in the film Bill Cunningham: New York and below you can see some of Bill's images of Iris in the New York Times.

fashion week

sorry for my lack of posts...so here's a super long one with some new fashion illustrations from LFW AW 2012...you can follow more on my tumblr fashion blog here