AN INTERVIEW WITH SAMUEL HARRISON | GROUP BLOG
“The
fashion illustrator’s role is to ‘make(s) commercial visuals to sell the
finished product” (Barnes, 1998). A fashion illustrator needs to be just as
passionate in the business as any other fashion field job, they need to live
and breathe fashion. They need to understand fashion, new-trends, styles, fits,
and techniques. Harrison does this through the technique of drapery, thus
avoiding gender exposure of his models.
Samuel
Harrison is a London based Artist and Fashion Illustrator. A recent Fine Art
graduate from the Chelsea College of Art, his fashion illustrations focus on
“an-other worldly sense of beauty” (Harrison, 2017). He translates his
inspiration from the fashion world into his work to create fantastical
drawings. Harrison has experienced success, having his art exhibited at
SHOWstudio and collaborating with reputable practitioners like Nick
Knight.
Harrisons
work is also concerned with identity and self-expression. Men look like men and
women look like women, there’s nothing in between. Samuel, dressing as a man by
day and a woman by night (taking inspiration from the original supermodels)
explores this gender gap, rebelling the heteronormative ideals of the fashion
industry. He states, “I like to think of my figures as very femme fatale kind
of women. Very powerful, very in control of their sexuality”.
Makeup
and fashion are two industries that go hand in hand, and have for many
centuries. The materials Harrison uses are distinctly unique; availing of
mediums such as eye liner, lipsticks, pigments and glitter which is closely
connected to his personal life and passion for Drag “Make-up and the beauty
industry, naturally relate to fashion anyway so I think it’s a great cross-over
to illustrate these topics” says Samuel.
“I see
fashion like a real-life character design. Colours, shapes, movements all
combine to create a story and a persona’’ says Samuel Harrison. His
illustrations explore various body gestures, which can be seen in the stance
drawn in his model’s. This connection involves fashion, art and illustration
which can be clearly noted in his drawings and thus the end-result becomes a
very unique piece of art. Beauty is an art, fashion is an art, illustration is
an art.
Group
Blog Authors:
Millie
Hughes (Fashion Design Student - Illustration content)
Caolum
McCabe (Fashion Design Student - Gender and Identity content)
Auris
(Fashion Design Student - Fine Art content)
Natasha
Wilson (Fashion Branding and Communication student - Background Information
content)
Rosa
Mamuzelos (Fashion Branding and Communication student - Make-up and Influences
content)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Samuel Harrison Art (2017). Available from: http://samuelharrisonart.co.uk [Accessed 25th October 2017].
Samuel
Harrison Art (2017). Instagram. Samuelharrisonart. Available from
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Barnes, 1988 “The Complete Guide to Fashion Illustration”, North Lights Books.
Steven
Stipelman, 2005, “Illustrating Fashion; Concept Creation”, Fairchild
Publications, Inc. New York City.
Diana
Crane, 2000 “Fashion and its Social Agendas; Class, Gender, and Identity in
Clothing” University of Chicago Press, Hartlein, R. (1991) “Art Fashion
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(2017)
“Dreamy Fashion Illustrations From a New Art Show.” The Cut, Available from:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/09/the-gray-mcas-annual-exhibit-comes-to-new-york-fashionweek.html?utm_source=nym&utm_medium=f1&utm_campaign=feed-full
Hunter
Reed, 9th February 2016, “Clothing the Gender Gap initiates
important dialogue regarding heteronormative fashion”, The Badger Herald.
Available from URL https://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2016/02/09/clothing-the-gender-gap-initiates-important-dialogue-regarding-heteronormative-fashion/
BIBLIOGRAPHY FOR IMAGERY
(Image 1)
July 26th 2016 [Accessed at 31/10/17] Available from URL
http://samuelharrisonart.co.uk/post/147998492532/a-collection-of-my-recent-ss17-illustrations-from
(Image 2)
30th August 2016 [Accessed at 31/10/17] Available from URL
http://showstudio.com/contributor/samuel_harrison
(Image 3)
October 19th [Accessed at 31/10/17] Available from URL https://www.instagram.com/p/BacTnNFhmTT/?hl=en&taken-by=samuelharrisonart
(Image 4)
February 3rd 2016 [Accessed at 31/10/17] Available from URL
https://www.instagram.com/p/BQD16Zfg0Ej/?hl=en&taken-by=samuelharrisonart
(Image 5)
May 9th, 2017 [Accessed at 31/10/17] Available from URL
https://www.instagram.com/p/BT4fAfRB5hI/?hl=en&taken-by=samuelharrisonart
(Image 6)
April 4th 2017 [Accessed at 31/10/17] Available from URL
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSea8-sh53X/?hl=en&taken-by=samuelharrisonart
(Image 7)
August 17th 2017 [Accessed at 31/10/17] Available from URL
https://www.instagram.com/p/BX6B_DjB8LW/?hl=en&taken-by=samuelharrisonart
(Image 8)
July 20th 2017 [Accessed at 31/10/17] Available from URL
https://www.instagram.com/p/BWx26_vBqDZ/?hl=en&taken-by=samuelharrisonart
(Image 9)
October 6th 2017 [Accessed at 31/10/17] Available from URL
https://www.instagram.com/p/BZ6BsWNhvfJ/?hl=en&taken-by=samuelharrisonart
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