Eco Fashion World

Eco Fashion World is looking for you! We support young creatives and offer our website as a platform for fashion designers, graphic illustrators, photographers and other talent to be visible to over 140.000 web pages per month! One such a design talent is 23 year old Guus Ter Beek, a student at the Willem de Kooning Academie in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The school is named after the famous Dutch abstract expressionist painter Willem de Kooning. He says about his series of fashion drawings FASHION VICTIMS:

Last semester I took a course on fashion illustration and the lessons consisted of drawing models from fashion magazines. After drawing a pose you had to outfit the model with clothes from another picture. A pose always has an effect on how different fabrics behave itself on the body. The most obvious example is that soft material tends to follow the curves of the body and stiffer fabrics don’t get out of shape so easily. That kind of information, and how you interpret that into a series of illustrations, is of great importance to the fashion designer.

My series 'Fashion victims' for the new John Galliano A/W collection, is inspired by the work of 20th Century Jugendstil painters like Alphonse Mucha and Gustav Klimt. I have tried to capture models in elegant poses, wearing Galliano's soft flowing fabrics. The models are proudly showing their dismembered bodies with ink flowing out of their wounds. They look like they don’t have any problem with being a fashion victim. The theme is somewhat ironic because who would willingly consider herself as a victim of fashion? It might remind you a bit of a song from The Kinks called ‘Dedicated follower of fashion’. Fashion is something you can easily get out of touch with, when you’re not paying attention to it every second of your life. Getting disconnected from fashion is something you don’t want because it can lead for example to loss of reputation and decreased attention from the other sex. Fashion can take casualties when people fail in maintaining their reputation, while they do everything within their power, and still don’t succeed. It’s a hard knock life'.

In the coming weeks, we will show more of Guus' work, but we also like to point out more art & design to you. A true hub of young creatives is the b* creative team which publishes a monthly magazine full of inspiration. This month they have gone green in order to honor Earth Day and promote more green and eco-friendly creativity. They did a whole bunch of interviews with some wonderful designers and companies and show a whole lot of green! In addition, they run the "Celebrating 100 With A Small Giveaway" competition which is on until the 15th of May, so get creative and send your entries through. Be sure to check them out and spread the word (each piece of work in b* creative is referenced with a link leading right back to the owners). Of course you can also find them on Facebook.

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