Fashion illustrators to follow on Instagram 2020

Jacky Blue

Based in New York, Brit Jacky Blue was mentored by the late Louise Wilson, who she met when working for Donna Karan in the 90s. She credits Wilson with encouraging her to pursue illustration, for which she gave up designing in 2017.

Blue's fashion-inspired illustrations can be purchased through the Fashion Illustration Gallery.

Frida Wannerburger

A Swede based in London, Frida Wannerburger is a graduate of Central Saint Martins who has multiple commissions for fashion houses and magazines as well as the inimitable website SHOWstudio. Her work is a compelling blend of delicate creatures swathed in bold and punchy fashions.

Original artworks and more purse-friendly postcards can be purchased directly through Wannerburger's website here.

Rosie McGuinness

Rosie McGuiness has an exemplary command of colour and pattern which she uses to portray designer fashion, but there's a more transcendent quality to her work thanks in part to many years of life drawing.

The London-based artist's work can be purchased through Fashion Illustration Gallery.

Erin Donohoe

Erin Donohoe is artist in residence at Woking College of Art and Design, and characterises her work as 'responding to the world through illustration' including socio-political issues such as the climate crisis.

Still developing her own style, Donohoe often works with oil pastel and uses modern and archive magazine images for inspiration.

Jordi Labanda

Established as Spain's most celebrated illustrator, Uruguay-born and Barcelona-raised Jordi Labanda has been working as an illustrator since the early 90s. There is a wry humour and sense of glamour to his work.

Helen Bullock

Once you become familiar with Helen Bullock's bright and bold illustrations it won't surprise you to learn that the illustrator also turns her hand to print design.

Helen Bullock's work can be bought from SHOWstudio and directly from her website here.

Christina Zimpel

A former art director for Australian and US Vogue, Christina Zimpel has an eclectic, often colourful approach that is underwritten by her own indelible handwriting.

Zimpel's work can be purchased through her website here.

Jessica Bird

A London-based Scot, Jessica Bird favours chalk pastels to create her brightly coloured images of fashion-clad figures. Inspired by the catwalks, Bird's oeuvre also features plenty of dogs.

You can purchase Bird's work directly through her website here.

Blair Breitenstein

New York artist Blair Breitenstein has an enviable list of fashion world clients including multiple Vogue titles, Chanel, Prada and Christian Louboutin. Breitenstein's work has a spontaneous smudgy charm, offsetting the hyper-perfection of some luxury fashion imagery.

The work of Breitenstein can be be purchased through Fashion Illustration Gallery.

Cecilia Carlstedt

After stints in New York and London (where she studied at the London College of Communication) Cecilia Carlstedt returned to her native Sweden. Carlstedt experiments with mediums including spray painting, screen printing and collage to create beautifully soft images.

Carlstedt's work can be purchased through Fashion Illustration Gallery and SHOWstudio.

Daniel Egneus

Born in Sweden and currently residing in Athens after a particularly adventurous and peripatetic life, despite having no formal training Daniel Egneus has become a prolific illustrator working on books as well as interpreting collections from the runway.

Egneus' work can be purchased from Print Sin.

Amelie Hegardt

Sweden-born Amelie Hegardt travelled extensively before settling in London where she is a lecturer in life drawing and fashion illustration. A watercolour softness infuses her work with an ethereal quality offset by hints of surrealism and noir.

Hegardt's work can be purchased through Fashion Illustration Gallery.