Fashion illustrations are marvellous, they bring to life the spirit of a brand and add an extra dimension to a design. But really, they’re just beautiful and one of the more well-known fashion illustrators is Bruno Grizzo.
Based in New York, Grizzo intially started as a fashion designer and worked for names like Calvin Klein, Lanvin and Frank Tignino. He also had his own line, which was pretty succesful as well.
He has an impressive roster of clients with names like Tiffany & Co, Saks 5th Avenue, Halston, Kate Spade, Ann Taylor, Jeffrey, Coach, Miller’s Oath, Hankyu Japan and Georg Jensen.
More recently, he was behind the Kate Spade New York Summer 2015 campaign which depicted the signature flamingos created by Grizzo as still life. The beautiful Kate Spade New York Year Of Travel campaign last year also featured his illustrations. His work with the brand has seen him bringing together art and fashion and he cites a memorable project as the campaign he did for the launch of the Madison Avenue flagship store.
We managed to catch up with him in an email interview and asked him what inspires him.
What made you move to fashion illustration?
It was actually accidental! I had just closed my business, and wasn’t sure what I was going to do next. A good friend of mine who is an art director and was working on a project for Halston Heritage asked me to do some test illustrations for it. The artist they were working with fell through at the last minute so I got the job and it went from there.
Who/what inspires you?
I really don’t know where the inspiration comes from; it could be films, music, art, or sometimes just sitting down and working. It comes!
What has been your most memorable project to date and why?
The Town & Country editorial with fine jewellery was a game changer for me. It was a fun project, mixing illustration with the actual jewels and shooting them as still life photography.
Tell us more about your collaboration with Kate Spade over the years – what is the design process and where do you draw your influences when crafting campaigns for the brand?
Kate Spade New York has been one of my favourite clients, first of all because they are so supportive of my work. Secondly, there’s such a great collaborative and fun energy working with their creative team. They usually have an idea of what they want to do and then I start playing around with ideas. We go back and forth till we get to the final art.
Any future projects?
I’ve been taking photography classes as well as animation, two things that I always liked and have become an important part of what I am doing. I just did my first still life photo assignment for Harpers Bazaar. I also plan to start making more short animated videos and GIFs, such as the one I did for Tiffany & Co.
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