Fida, the international on-line awards to advertise vogue illustration and drawing, introduced its 2021 award winners this weekend chosen from almost 1000 entries from 101 nations. A shortlist of 100 artists was communicated mid-March from which 1 / 4 grew to become finalists. Competitors judges had been headed by Fida model ambassadors, Nuno da Costa, vogue illustrator for Vogue Portugal, and Francesco Lo Iacono, London-based vogue illustrator who stories on vogue week for L’Officiel. They had been joined on the panel by trade professionals, Marcos Batuecas from Lacoste, Lucy Lyon from Tom Ford, Antonio Colomboni from Rest room Paper journal and Fraser Clark from Wallpaper*, along with well-renowned illustrators, Chris Gambrell, Tina Berning, and Clement Louis.
Patrick Morgan, founding father of Fida, delivered information of the winners through Instagram as an alternative of throughout a glittering bash in an opulent London lodge which was how the winners had been celebrated in pre-pandemic years. FashionUnited spoke to Morgan to get his ideas on this yr’s submissions, and the return of vogue illustration to trade dialogue regardless of the difficulties that the pandemic has inflicted.
The factors could be very easy. Is the work fascinating and has the work bought one thing new to say? Is there a superb understanding for drawing, composition, mark making, high quality of ultimate final result and approach? Is the work related to the world in the present day? And does it really feel recent? Did it seize your eye and creativeness, making you cease to look?
It was all very shut this yr as a result of the usual of submissions was very excessive, with an array of various strategies and approaches to portraying the style picture. We have now, on earlier events, had clear winners in some classes, however deciding on the winner can contain a bit of little bit of debating on the finish.
Decide, Francesco Lo Iacono: I’ve had the honour to be a Fida Ambassador because the very starting and I’m very happy and proud to see how vogue illustrators preserve creating such highly effective photos. Fida is pushing vogue artists from wherever on the planet to rethink the impression of illustration inside and outdoors the style trade. I can see the period of time, analysis, onerous work and creativity behind each single entry. Fida is celebrating not solely the winners however anybody who retains difficult vogue illustration and its prospects.
Morgan: I believe this assertion actually captures the essence of the Fida Awards. Fida is opening the dialogue to a brand new dialogue with vogue imagemaking by drawing and portray. We would like it to be re-understood in a brand new capability, that it has deeper crucial considering. Via the introduction of Fida’s month-to-month talks, we hope to re-inform the trade and transfer it to a brand new house the place the business/inventive market actually appears on the work by a deeper lens. Vogue illustration will not be an additional to the method however integral to the vibe of the model or temper of a designer’s assortment.
Fida has created a real, sincere neighborhood of vogue imagemakers who’ve turn into a part of an even bigger household. We like to see progress and a number of the artists, since coming into or profitable, have gone on to actually develop into one thing a lot larger, which is unbelievable. Fida is constructing new areas and platforms to assist vogue artists have extra management over their imaginative and prescient by curated portfolios proven by our members’ web site.
In January, Fida launched The Fible, a luxurious tome showcasing the rising expertise of 2021 for manufacturers, firms and vogue lovers to flick through whereas searching for inspiration or for artists to fee.
Annually there are 4 class winners and one total winner. The Cowl Award which reimagines {a magazine} cowl went to the poetic and painterly imagining of a L’Officiel cowl from Martina Cambrini; the Second Award which celebrates an artist’s potential to create work which resonates and captures our collective creativeness went to Manon Cardin. The Icon Award celebrating a determine who has modified the trade was earned by Seungwon Hong for his portray of Karl Lagerfeld displaying dynamic experimental brushwork. The Muse Award acknowledges the particular relationship between designers and those that encourage them, and the unanimous winner in that class was Carmen Vega Ruigómez for her portray of Adut Akeche. This yr’s total winner, who bought essentially the most votes by far, revealed Morgan, and whose piece actually stood out for its fascinating composition and linework was Manon Cardin.
Featured paintings from Fida: Header, Carmen Vega Ruigómez, adopted so as by Manon Cardin, Seungwon Hong, Martina Cabrini
Vogue editor Jackie Mallon can also be an educator and writer of Silk for the Feed Canine, a novel set within the worldwide vogue trade
