Fashion illustration is all about making an impression. It’s about creating a sense of excitement and intrigue that serves both fashion brands and fashion consumers. Mainly, it’s about having fun and being creative.
Simona Murialdo’s illustrations embody the creative spirit of fashion. Her work spanning both personal projects and commercial collaborations (with clients including publications like Oxford Press and Elle UK), Murialdo’s illustrations prove that fashion can take many shapes and forms.
Her work also provides a way of combining two of her greatest passions: fashion and art. According to Murialdo, while she grew up thinking she’d become a fashion designer, she admittedly enjoyed the drawing process better.
“I have been drawing since I can remember,” she shared with I Love Illustration. “I recall coming home from school and sketching long haired princesses with beautiful and improbably-voluminous over-wide-long dresses covered in flowers and ribbons.”
She went on to study Graphic Design in Milan and Fashion Illustration in London, where she lived and worked for many years. “I let my illustrative and artistic side take over and I drifted into Illustration and Graphic Design,” says Murialdo.
Currently back in Milan, she now teaches Graphic and Multimedia Design at Istituto Marangoni, while consulting as Fashion Illustrator and Art Director.
Her advice to other aspiring creatives? Seek your own approval, before seeking other’s approval. “Never draw to please others,” stresses Murialdo’s. “Only draw to please yourself.”
