Carsten Witte 1964 | German Fashion photographer

The Hamburg native has an extensive portfolio ranging from fashion, beauty, advertising and art. He specializes in black and white photography and believes that all his photo's hold a story. Carsten's unusual eye evokes that dynamic shot that is intriguing, even eerie in some of his work, yet his photos always seem to brilliantly capture the essence of beauty. His nude shots are all very artistic, and beautifully done.The Hamburg native has an extensive portfolio ranging from fashion, beauty, advertising and art. He specializes in black and white photography and believes that all his photo's hold a story. Carsten's unusual eye evokes that dynamic shot that is intriguing, even eerie in some of his work, yet his photos always seem to brilliantly capture the essence of beauty. His nude shots are all very artistic, and beautifully done.

Wendy Ng | Chinese Abstract painter

Wendy Ng was born in Hong Kong, Educated in the United States, Belgium and the United Kingdom. Her heart has always desired to study art. She was also trained in Wimbledon School of Art’s Art and Design. Ng also has a background in advertising and publishing.
She paints in the traditional form but takes her ideas further by experimenting with patterns and textures creating a balance between Real-life Art and Abstract Art.
Wendy Ng captures beauty and femininity with her female portrait art, and making it more special with her ability to merge the abstract from realism. With emotions captured in every faces of her subjects, she is also able to create a patina of various patterns, which includes a subtle hint of geometrical art, leaves, rose petals, floral ornaments, spheres, pixels, squares, and many other shapes. The way she infuses these media into a luxurious form of portrait art is indeed amazing.

Deidre But-Husaim 1959 | Australian Futurist and Hyperrealist painter

Deidre But-Husaim is a visual artist based in Adelaide who has painting at the core of her practice. She attended Adelaide Central School of Art and Adelaide Centre for the Arts. She paints with oil on canvas (linen), her work is mostly figurative. But-Husaim has a Bachelor of Arts (Painting) from Adelaide Centre for the Arts and an Associate Degree of Visual Art from Adelaide Central School of Art. She has held solo exhibitions in Melbourne and Sydney. But-Husaim has been a finalist in the Archibald Prize, Doug Moran National Portrait Prize, Redlands Art Awards, John Fries Memorial Prize and The RBS Emerging Artist Award.
But-Husaim entered a painting into the 2008 Churchie Emerging Art Prize but withdrew the work as certain policies of the exhibition organisers prompted the artist to take a stand against discrimination and make her feelings public.

Gwen Murphy | American Wooden sculptress | Shoes sculpture

Gwen Murphy is a brilliant artist who breathes new life into old shoes, by transforming them from fashion accessories into intriguing works of art. Ever since she was a little girl, Gwen liked to look at shoes and found that they were staring back at her, each pair with its own character and personality. Depending on model and how worn out they were, some shoes sometimes looked sleepy, other times grouchy or fierce, some even looked like they were singing. Young Gwen perceived them as a species of beings made entirely from pairs of identical twins, and the fascination with shoes stayed with her all the way through adulthood. Now, she collects pairs of worn out shoes and tries to bring out their personality, by literally giving them a face. She makes use of ash clay and acrylic paint to create bugged-out eyes, long faces and pouting lips, and gives each pair a unique face that expresses its unique character. Indian slippers have an exotic look, wooden shoes look blissful and primitive, while high heel shoes have somewhat of an arrogant look.

Duma Arantes 1973 | Lisbon | Fashion painter

Duma lives and works in Oeiras, Portugal where she studied advertising in IADE -Visual Arts, Design Marketig Institute and also Painting and Drawing at the National Society of Fine Arts, in Lisbon. “The feminine figure is something natural in my work, it’s like a piece of me represented in each canvas. I like to show to the viewer just a little piece of the full scene. I like to leave space for the viewer’s imagination. In each frame there is an unlimited universe of actions, thoughts and emotions, each character shows us just a little bit of its personality, it’s like a frozen frame of a movie or a camera shot of a moment. I was always very attracted to represent the human shape, particularly portraits. However, the kind of portrait I want to convey, is not of anyone in particular, I don’t want to provide a specific identity, I just want to represent an overall feeling of femininity. By taking away the eyes, I surround the character in mystery, making it more abstract, forcing the viewer to create a story around it. That’s complemented with the framing. I choose and a simple and clear background. Each one allows the viewer to use his imagination and provides a unique and individual experience of the painting. I have a very graphic, clean, soft, but at the same time strong, simple style, very influenced by graphic design, digital illustration, photography, fashion and the simple fact of being a woman” - Duma.

Valery Star 1986 | Ukrainian Body Painting and Fashion painter

Valery Star [Валерии Стар] born in Kiev, Ukraine.
I`m professional body painter. The director of body painting studio "ValeryStar studio".
We take up questions and propositions about body painting show, hostess, advertisements, photoshootings with body painting.

Coco Chanel 1883-1971 | Creò la nuova donna del XX secolo

Gli aforismi

• La felicità non è altro che il profumo del nostro animo.
• Se una donna è malvestita si nota l'abito. Se è ben impeccabilmente si nota la donna.
• La moda è fatta per diventare fuori moda.
• Per essere insostituibili bisogna essere diversi.
• Non mi pento di nulla nella mia vita, eccetto di quello che non ho fatto.
• La bellezza serve alle donne per essere amate dagli uomini, la stupidità per amare gli uomini.
• La moda riflette sempre i tempi in cui vive, anche se, quando i tempi sono banali, preferiamo dimenticarlo.



• L’eleganza non consiste nell’indossare un vestito nuovo.
• La giovinezza, una novità. Nessuno ne parlava vent’anni fa.
• La natura ti da la faccia che hai a vent’anni; è compito tuo meritarti quella che avrai a cinquant’anni.
• Quelli che creano sono rari; quelli che non creano sono numerosi. Quindi gli ultimi sono i più forti.
• Alcune persone pensano che la lussuria sia l’opposto della povertà. Non lo è. È l’opposto della volgarità.
• Amo la lussuria. Essa non giace nella ricchezza e nel fasto ma nell’assenza della volgarità. La volgarità è la più brutta parola della nostra lingua. Rimango in gioco per combatterla.

La storia

Forte ed ambiziosa, Gabrielle Coco Chanel, 1883-1971, sovvertì la moda femminile costretta all’interno di rigidi schemi sociali, rivoluzionò il concetto di femminilità, imponendosi come figura fondamentale del fashion design e della cultura popolare del XX secolo.

Brent Lynch | Canadian fashion painter

A powerful landscape and figurative painter, Brent Lynch pursues the abstract quality of mood, light, color and composition. The mystery and energy of a landscape or the human form are hallmarks of his work. For over 25 years, Brent has enjoyed an influential and award-winning career in the arts. He was best known for his unique illustrations for event posters representing performance arts such as ballet, opera and theater as well as sporting events including the Olympic Games. Brent is a natural visual story teller. It is through his unique perspective that his personal handwriting shines. He is a highly respected painter and instructor that has received many international awards. His work is represented by galleries found in private and corporate collections both nationally and abroad.

John Bradshaw Crandell 1896-1966 | Glamour and Pin-Up painter

Crandell was an american artist and illustrator, was known as the artist of the stars, a glamour painter. Among those who posed for Crandell were Carol Lombard, Bette Davis, Judy Garland, Veronica Lake and Lana Turner. In 1921 he began his career with an ad for Lorraine hair nets sold exclusively by F. W. Woolworth. His first cover illustration was the May 28, 1921 issue for Judge magazine. In later life he went from illustrations to oil on canvas paintings which included political figures. He also provided poster work for 20th Century Fox. In 2006 he was inducted into the Society of Illustrators hall of fame. In March 2010, an illustration for the 1952 Dutch Treat Club yearbook of Crandell's sold for $17.000.

A.D. Cook 1961 | American fashion painter

I was born with a passion to create. I started drawing a very early age and I learned to paint with a variety of mediums while honing my skills throughout childhood. My family moved a lot from one end of the country to the other, and I often attended two or three different schools on any given year. Fortunately, pencils and paper where easy to pack. At age 14, we finally settled in the Oregon City area (near Portland, Oregon) for a few years. There, I discovered the airbrush and other art mediums while further developing my drawing and photography skills. Then off to Phoenix for a few years 18-22. In the Spring of 1983, I met the love of my life, Kathryn. We married in December of that same year. The next year we moved to Oregon together. In the late '80’s through mid ‘90’s, I was the early marketing force behind the fast-growing Hollywood Video stores. I created their corporate identity and brand, and designed the look-and-feel of the first stores while painting dozens of large-scale wall murals of movie stars and personalities for the fast growing retail giant.
After leaving Hollywood Video in 1994, I continued to refine my creative skills, producing a series of large paintings of American motorcycles and other subject matter before finally transitioning to mostly figurative artworks and abstracts. In 2004, I created the first of many large-scale realistic nudes on specially prepared canvas and migrating to metal figurative originals in 2006. We moved to Las Vegas later that same year where I now create and show my art. Kathryn and I reside in Las Vegas, NV, with our dog, Dargo. I continually find inspiration in the flood of imagery and the stimulating energy that permeates this city.

Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle 1952 | French painter and sculptress

Born 1952 Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle lives and works in France. She studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Pau and spent two years in the Phnom-Penh Fine Arts faculty in Cambodia. Her approach is a highly personal adventure. Every encounter, every country she has travelled through, every image glimpsed and every emotion experienced contributes to her creation. Her works are a passionate tribute to grace and femininity. She draws, sculpts and transforms woman in bronze, producing curved figures of expressive gentleness that emanate a sense of contemplation and inner strength. On paper, Deville-Chabrolle uses only sanguine to which she sometimes adds gold leaf or elements of calligraphy, thus fixing the work somewhere between the enduring quality of metal and the transience of the trace. As a woman, Marie-Paule Deville-Chabrolle brings things to her work other than the traditional eroticism often found with many sculptors today. Her work is on show in permanent exhibitions both within and outside France.

LaShun Beal 1962 | Detroit

LaShun Beal was born January 28 1962. He's a native of Detroit, who now resides in the Houston area. Although he's taken a few classes, he has no formal art training and really considers himself to be a self-taught artist. Beal's subject matter seems to revolve around female characters. His style depicts the many differences of African American women. Over the last few years he's developed his signature Universal Women character which has came to be associated with his name. Lashun participated in the Creative Quarantine of 2009.

Trish Biddle | Fashion and Art Déco american painter

American artist Trish Biddle studied at the Dallas Institute of Art, before beginning her career as an illustrator and textile designer. Trish Biddle is published internationally, and is collected around the world. Her process of drawing, painting and designing eventually melded onto canvases, creating romantic images and her unmistakable Art Déco figurative paintings. Her expertise in capturing nature and light creates richly colored, breath-taking canvases. With a well-defined style, broad, romantic strokes and vibrant color, Trish paints figurative, floral, fashion icons and children’s art. She travels the world and enjoys translating her experiences into oil on canvas. Showcasing her sense of design, Trish captures the Art Déco style of fashion, elegance, sophistication and the simplicity of the era. Tamara De Lempicka who defined Art Déco painting as we know it, Argentinean tango dancers and depression era dance marathons have all inspired Trish’s vintage, figurative paintings. The faces are obscured purposely to allow the viewer to identify with the images of the graceful dancers their own romantic notions. Backgrounds are evidence of textile, ironwork and architectural designs extracted from her own designs and travels. Trish currently resides in Westlake Texas.

Paper fashion dresses | Futuristic style

Paper clothing, in the form of women's dresses and other clothes made from disposable cellulose fabric, was a short-lived fashion novelty item in the 1960s United States.
Individual paper and papier-mâché clothes and accessories (especially masquerade costumes) were used as early as the 19th century. But mass-produced paper fashion was invented by the American Scott Paper Company in 1966 as a marketing stunt. Customers could send in a coupon and $1.25 to receive a dress made of "Dura-Weve", a cellulose material patented in 1958.
These "Paper Caper" dresses, which featured a red bandanna print or a black and white op art pattern, kicked off a fashion craze. 500,000 of them were produced, and other manufacturers soon followed suit.
By 1967, paper dresses were sold in major department stores for about $8 apiece, and entire paper clothing boutiques were set up by companies such as Abraham & Straus and I. Magnin. At the height of demand, Mars Hosiery made 100,000 dresses a week.
Other items made of paper included underwear, men's vests, bridal gowns expensive at $15, children's pinafores "just the thing for ever-sprouting sprouts" and even rain coats and bikinis "good for two to three wearings".

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Gustave Jean Jacquet 1846-1909 | Academic Classical artist

During the 19th century, particularly in France, people developed a vivid fascination with the past and paintings of the bygone eras were in demand. Jacquet specialised in painting nudes, portraits and genre subjects in which he evoked the elegance of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
These works were exquisitely painted with every attention paid to detail; his use of colour is rich and vibrant and his rendition of luxurious cloth is outstanding.

Lennette Newell | Naturalist fashion photographer

Naturalist fashion photographer Lennette Newell channels a lifelong passion for Earth’s biodiversity and the magical wonder of the natural world into compelling animal portraits that afford viewers an intimate glimpse of creatures large and small. Having grown up on the high plains of western Nebraska as the daughter of a veterinarian and cattleman, Lennette creates images that explore the innate connections between subject and photographer, the common ties between the world of humans and that of animals.
Newell’s black-and-white photographs are simultaneously stark in composition yet rich in detail. Again and again, the viewer comes face to face with animal subjects that display an unexpected emotionality that lends new insight into the inner lives of these creatures. As she explains, “This work is the result of my passion for the animal kingdom; it is a celebration of the unique spirit and character of each species. These images pay homage to our shared commonality”. Newell currently lives and works in northern California, where she is committed to fighting for environmental causes.

Annick Bouvattier | French fashion painter

Annick Bouvattier is born in the mid-sixties in Nevers, France. His father, a pediatrician and art collector, gave her his love of fine arts. In 1982, bachelor of science degree in hand, she abandons the family tradition of medical studies to enroll in fashion school "Berçot-Marie Rucki" where for two years, she trained as a stylist. Presented in Paris and the Villa Medici (Rome), her creations earning the esteem of professionals and are the subject of numerous publications in the press. However, more attracted by shows than by fashion boutiques, Annick Bouvattier begin her working life in cinema and commercials. Costume designer, she often works in the studios of Cinecitta in Rome. From her stays to Italy, she retains the taste of warm colors, sensual, profound: sunny ochres, reds deaf, the intense blues, deep greens. In early 1990, she decided to devote himself exclusively to painting. After two years of research in self-taught, she became a pupil of Pierre Ramel 1992-1996, a disciple of Mac'Avoy, who teach him the technique of oil on the knife, that she works gently, without thickness, with lot of transparency. Women are the main subject of Annick Bouvattier. Alone or together, they live in city apartments almost empty, furnished with shadows and light. Beautiful, young, they live their femininity without false modesty, indifferent to outside views. Big size canvases, compositions in close up, the works of Annick Bouvattier are spaces of escape where the pictorial opens dialogue with the emotional.