'Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration' Tour

Amelia Gregory of 'Amelia's Magazine' recently published her second book 'Amelia's Compendium of Fashion Illustration' - featuring ethical fashion designers and up and coming young fashion illustrators - for which she started yesterday a promotional tour at some cool galleries around the UK. The event - which I attended - took place at the Tatty Devine shop in Covent Garden and was really warm and fun.
So I thought it would be nice at the start of the tour to post here some of my favourite pages from the book! You can read more about the book and the tour details here, you can buy the book here and you can see my photos from the opening night here!

Minna S/S 2011 by Antonia Parker

Various designers illustrated by Michelle Urvall Nyren

Vintage at Goodwood 2010 illustrated by Erica Sharp

Zara Gorman MA Graduate Collection illustrated by Gemma Milly

Lu Flux A/W 2009 and S/S 2010 illustrated by Natsuki Otani

Bora Aksu A/W 2010 illustrated by Zarina Liew

Royal wENDING

© 2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly the Eggs

Fairer Fares!

There was quite a lot of fantastic action earlier this month by the Campaign for Better Transport's Fair Fares Now campaign, Climate Rush and The Craftivist Collective in an effort to highlight the unfairness of continuously risings transport fares and the government plans to keep increasing them! So I really wanted to do an illustration to show support in the tiniest possible way. Do read the posts on the websites mentioned above, join the campaign here, and read the great review of the events that took place earlier in the month that Amelia Gregory wrote in Amelias Magazine. Very inspirational!

© 2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly the Eggs

Happy Easter with 2 illos!

© 2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly the Eggs

© 2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly the Eggs

Louise Gray illustration for Amelia's Magazine

This is my latest fashion illustration for Amelia's Magazine. It was for british designer Louise Gray's show at Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week A/W 2011 in Russia. I only recently became aware of Louise Gray's work and absolutely loved it - previous collections also like the S/S 2011 where you can see skirts in which she has inserted metal bottle tops! Totally appealing to me of course being a bottle top jewellery designer at Plastic Seconds...You can read Amelia Gregory's great review of the show here.

© 2011 Maria Papadimitriou aka Slowly the Eggs

The Amazing Linder!!!

As in my last post I mentioned that my illustrations were slightly influenced by the work of Linder and that I adore her work, I thought I should post a few images of this amazing work! I love how she often combines food with beauty - as I do sometimes in my work, see especially my Collage Hats series - and how there is often something grotesque about the end result.

All images are found on Google and I have no rights over them

Elizabeth Taylor illustration for Amelia's Magazine!

This is my latest illustration commisioned by Amelia's Magazine for a tribute to Dame Elizabeth Taylor - who sadly passed away on the 23rd of March this year...It is obviously slightly influenced by the wonderful Linder, whose work I admire very much!



Liz Taylor © 2011 Slowly the Eggs, read Matt Bramford's tribute here