London Fashion Week A/W 2014 Fashion Illustrations for Amelia's Magazine

True, this is being posted quite a bit after the event... but here I wanted to share a group of fashion illustrations I did for Amelia's Magazine during London Fashion Week A/W 2014.

© 2014 Slowly The Eggs aka Maria Papadimitriou - read Amelia Gregory's Hiroko Nakajima A/W 2014 review here.

© 2014 Slowly The Eggs aka Maria Papadimitriou - read Amelia Gregory's Min Wu A/W 2014 review here.

© 2014 Slowly The Eggs aka Maria Papadimitriou - read Amelia Gregory's George Styler A/W 2014 review here.

© 2014 Slowly The Eggs aka Maria Papadimitriou - read Amelia Gregory's Xiao Li A/W 2014 review here.

© 2014 Slowly The Eggs aka Maria Papadimitriou - read Amelia Gregory's Yifang Wan A/W 2014 review here.

Fashion Illustration for Simon Ekrelius A/W 2014 interview in Amelia's Magazine

I really love the Simon Ekrelius A/W 2014 Collection, titled Monochrome and inspired by iconic model Lee Miller! This is a fashion illustration I did for the Simon Ekrelius A/W 2014 interview in Amelia's Magazine.

© 2014 Simon Ekrelius A/W 2014 by Slowly The Eggs aka Maria Papadimitriou

Hannah Georgas 'Elephant' Illustration for Amelia's Magazine

'Elephant' - © 2013 Slowly The Eggs aka Maria Papadimitriou, all rights reserved

Recently I produced this illustration for an interview with Hannah Georgas about her self-titled album in Amelia's Magazine. I was very glad to discover Canadian singer, songwriter Hannah Georgas, whom I had not heard of before, through Amelia's Magazine! One of my favorite songs on her self titled album recently released is the song 'Elephant' and the image below is inspired by it. The lyrics are beautiful and they go like this:
You are off kilter with me. Don't you know it's every other day of the week? Your win my feat.
These days I'm running to escape. Drenching my brain, soak in my mistakes. My mistakes.
Is there any love left for me? Is there any love left for me?
That dark sky yeah it's so big. Isn't anybody wondering? Isn't anybody questioning what this all is? As I age it sinks deeper in. This life is temporary, it's all gonna end. This is all gonna end.
It's just a little love that I need. It's just a little love that I need.
There's an elephant in this room and I'm white as a ghost.
Show me the road.
All these moments become memories. I don't wanna wake up one day thinking what did I miss. I fear my own fate. I don't wanna wake up one day thinking where the hell have I been.

London Fashion Week Fashion S/S 2014 Fashion Illustration for Amelia's Magazine

This season during London Fashion Week it was great to have the opportunity to contribute again to Amelia's Magazine by writing a number of reviews of catwalk shows and providing fashion illustrations for some of them. In my illustrating work I often find it rather tricky to stick to one particular style, as I can be in so many different moods when I seat down in front of paper, I have so many varied inspirations and I am not only one particular person.... But with fashion illustration, perhaps, this is somewhat of a strength as I do think each designer and collection have their own tone and feel which is interesting to try and convey via sometimes completely contrasting image making techniques.

Little Shilpa S/S 2014 - © 2013 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs - read my Little Shilpa S/S 2014 presentation review in Amelia's Magazine here.

Helen Lawrence S/S 2014 - © 2013 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs - read Amelia's Helen Lawrence S/S 2014 catwalk review here.

Yeashin S/S 2014 - © 2013 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs - read Amelia's Yeashin S/S 2014 catwalk review here.

Charlie May S/S 2014 - © Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs - read Amelia's Charlie May S/S 2014 preview interview here.

Secret Garden Party illustrations for Amelia's Magazine

Plastic Seconds - me jewellery brand - and me went to The Secret Garden Party in July! Upon my return I wrote a review of The Secret Emporium at The Secret Garden Party in Amelia's Magazine and below are some illustrations I did for it :-)

'The Secret Emporium at The Secret Garden Party 2012', copyright 2012 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

'Tell Tails at the Secret Emporium 2012' copyright 2012 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly The Eggs

The Future We Choose Book Launch

This is another post I have been meaning to publish for some time. Back in January 2012 I blogged about Think Act Vote's Future's Project. Earlier this summer, 'The Future We Choose', a book result of this project by Think Act Vote was published and a book launch event took place at The Arch Gallery in east London. Below are some images of my contributions in the book, both in terms of words and images and some pics from the launch event. If you would like to read a more detailed account of the event and the book's background then head over to Amelia's Magazine and have a look at my review of the event there. You can buy the book here.

One of my illustrations in the book

I found Michael Norton really inspiring - do check out one of his books 365 Ways to Change The World