Michelle Marcum presents
Fashion Illustration 2014 Lookbook
About the Artist
Michelle Marcum is a Graphic Design major at Stephens College in Columbia, MO. Her design work has a strong emphasis in illustration with the use of images and hand lettering.
Michelle Marcum presents
Fashion Illustration 2014 Lookbook
What’s Inside...
Fairy Tale Ending
Competition Submissions
Urban graffiti
Tomboy Pretty
Cute is the new sexy
Rocker Chic
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Rocker Chic
Music Inspired Apparel
This collection shows contemporary women wearing apparel and accessories inspired by Rock n Roll music, guitars and drums. The chosen genre has been creatively incorporated on the models clothing in the form of shapes, characteristics of chosen instruments and color story.
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Cute is the new sexy
Folk Art Inspired Lingerie
The compositions for this collection correspond to the theme and depict St. Valentine’s day spirit. This collection has incorporated traditional folk art accents on the trim of garments with the development of romantic and pastel color palette. Representing transparency was an essential part of the project with the experimentation of special effects and layering.
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Tomboy Pretty
Fashion Illustrator Research
Based on the techniques used by master illustrator’s, this collection was created using preferred artist’s interpretations. Aitor Thurp and Linda Kline were the source inspiration for the six figure compositions. The styles used by these illustrators were carefully combined to explore their “vision” of technique, color stories, graphic elements and line quality.
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Urban graffiti
Basquiat Inspired Menswear This mini collection was created after researching the American Punk movement and graffiti-art of the mid 80’s and their relationship with Jean Michel Basquiat art and life. The male figures were inspired by Basquiat’s visual appearance and his art. The use of images, patterns, color story and other visuals are representational of street art in contemporary urban fashion.
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Competition Submissions
Fashion Illustration Contest Sketches and final compositions were created for the Stephens College 2014 Fashion Illustration Contest. We were provided with a mood board and color story which was incorporated into the three selected submissions. The first illustration on the next page was selected for use in The Collections, the 2014 Spring Fashion Show at Stephens College. The image was used on posters and promotional materials.
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Fairy Tale Ending
Animation Inspired Childrenswear The figure compositions represent children from four age groups such as toddler, child, tween and teen. Color story and esthetics is based off the animation, The Last Unicorn. Characters, clothing and visually appealing elements have been incorporated into the childrenwear’s collection.
Michelle Marcum Art Chica Studios