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Drawing Cabaret Couture featuring Hannah Stote

In preparation for London Fashion Week and

THE NEW SEASON ISSUE 16

FEB 2022

Our Mission

At GoldFoil magazine we work with new and emerging talent within the fashion industry to bring you incredible content, interesting interviews, different points of view, and much more. We believe that we are always able to do better, to expand our horizons, to learn and experience more.

Art Class & Production: Drawing Cabaret Couture @drawingcabaretcouture Designs: Hannah Stote @hannahstoteknitwear Headwear: Wendy Olver @wendy.olver Set Design: Matthew Lawrence @mglawrence_ Photographer & Lighting: Matthew Lawrence @mglawrence_ Model & Mua: Janet Mayer @janetmayerofficial Location: Drawing Cabaret Couture Studio @dcc.studios

Editor notes The New Season, almost like a contemporary revisit of the New Look in the 50s developed by Christian Dior, designers are back out of their home studios to the office and thus the ideas of comfort and design are once again reimagined. What had become the norm - tracksuits and staying at home, has been flipped on its head, but instead of looking at the world with the eyes we did before everything had started, it is almost like a new world, bringing in new demand for new ways of dressing. The world is quickly waking up to a new reality where fashion is back in charge with exciting hybrid shows taking place all over the world. This month we are preparing for what's to come in a few weeks with London Fashion Week. Hope you enjoy the editorials provided by Drawing Cabaret Couture in collaboration with Hannah Stote and Amy Lauffer. Deyvid Dimitrov Editor

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WENG Contemporary DIOR AW22 Amy Lauffer Drawing Cabaret Couture Hannah Stote Venie Tee London Fashion Week

WENG Contemporary

@weng_contemporary

Established in 2014 in Zug, Switzerland, Weng Contemporary – ArtXX AG is part of Weng Fine Art AG; an international art trading and consulting company, which since 1994 has been dealing in fine art and editions. Their active engagement in the manufacturing process of all editions guarantees authenticity, the checks for quality and condition reports, transparency in price and availability makes them the perfect choice when it comes to high-end art collecting.

Photo: @szkonxheli Hair & Make Up: @nina_tatavittomakeup Garment: @dressing_room_zug Model: @alekspopoviic (@fotogenmodels)

Jeff Koons himself has called this sculpture the ‘’Trojan Horse’’ of the Celebration series, and Weng Contemporary has presented this work in a stunning editorial. It’s the only authentic limited edition depicting the free-standing Balloon Dog and it’s a reproduction of the larger sculpture of the Balloon Dog, as conceived in five unique colours (Blue, Magenta, Yellow, Orange, and Red), part of the Celebration Series started in 1994 and completed in 2000. The Balloon Dog has chameleon-like qualities; meaning it is able to immerse itself in the environment it is a part of, its reflective surface is capable of physically changing with its surroundings and its many-layered meanings make it conceptually change in the mind of the observer. This limited art edition comes from an edition size of 799 pieces and was created of Limoges porcelain and manufactured in Limoges, France. The freestanding limited edition of the Balloon Dog (Blue) requires 60 people for the production of each work and it takes a full month to complete one. Its creation combines traditional porcelain decoration techniques with new technologies which are not typically applied to ceramics; this combination allows for metallic and reflective characteristics. Each edition is signed on the inside front right leg and the signature is applied on top of the porcelain and fired in the oven.

AMY LAUFFER

@_realrocknrolla

Photography: Amy Lauffer @_realrocknrolla Model: Samya Arrat @sam_yarra

Photography: Amy Lauffer @_realrocknrolla Model: Mathilde Pointeau @mathildepointeau

Paintings: Nicolas Delpech @nicolas__delpech Make up: Anouck Chevalier-Miziniak @makeupbyanouck Hair: Jonathan Cauvel @henrythedandy_hairstylist Model: Emma Py @py.emma Photographer: Amy Lauffer @_realrocknrolla 18

- Drawing Cabaret Couture -

Drawing Cabaret Couture Drawing Cabaret Couture is a London-based production team who specialise in creating high fashion films and editorials. All of which are professionally produced and live-streamed from their film and photography studio in London. They regularly hold haute couture based drawing classes and immersive events, and most of the creatives who join their sessions are leading professional fashion illustrators and artists.

When taking part in a two-hour art class online, you will immerse yourself into a fantasy world, letting go of preconceptions. You will have the opportunity to focus on colours, shapes and movement from the comfort of your home studio while taking inspiration from this incredible visual experience. By taking part in such a creative and social immersive event as Drawing Cabaret Couture, you will have the opportunity to meet many other creatives, as well as learn of designers and artists Drawing Cabaret Couture was created by model, you might not have come across before, you will professional dancer and choreographer Janet May- see your artistic skills improve and you will gain er (who you might recognise from J’adore La Vie) more clarity, and feel more relaxed and confident. and artist & set designer Matthew Lawrence who’s establishing himself as a fine art oil painter. To- Following the journey of some of the artists we gether, with a full team of makeup artists, hair have featured over the past 8 months will give stylists, fashion designers, shoe makers, milliners, you an insight into how much their classes have models, technicians, photographers and set de- helped these talented creatives improve their obsigners they create new and inspiring editorials to servational skills. And becoming their Patreon bring their fabulous live drawing classes to your supporter will give you the opportunity to enjoy living room. Their concept has proven very suc- their classes, meet like minded individuals, and cessful especially during the pandemic and that get the chance to be featured in GoldFoil Magais when it grew in popularity, as more and more zine (shhh, pretend like we did not say this). creatives needed a sense of normality and a new inspiration. The classes have already gained a huge global following of professional artists and illustrators as well as those who simply just want to immerse themselves in this unique new drawing experience.

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Hannah Stote Hannah Stote is a part-time knitwear designer and maker who also works at Seasalt Cornwall as a Design Assistant. Working on a vintage knitting machine and inspired by the history of knitwear, she creates both tactile yet modern pieces, all hand knitted by herself. As well as designing for recycling, Hannah is passionate about natural fibers and especially wool, even going to the lengths to source 100% British wool for her collection. In her spare time she enjoys experimenting with new techniques on her knitting machine and making her own clothes. ‘’A Siren’s Call’’ began with a seamless jumper with hundreds of different designs, one for each fishing village in the north of England – a fisherman's gansey. The Folklore is that if a fisherman was lost at sea, he could be identified by his jumper. Full of not only history but identity too, the fisherman's gansey became the primary research for the collection and influenced many other avenues of research, such as pre-Raphaelite women (inspired by the tales of sirens), darning stitches, basket/ net weaving and faded/sun-bleached colors.

Bored on the Boardwalk 9x12 Watercolour and Graphite

Taryn Lee @tarynleeartist

Sail Away 11x14 Watercolour and Graphite

Angelo Pizzigallo

@pizzigalloangelo

Pirates A3 Pen and Ink

Fisherman's Friend A3 Pen and Ink

Claire Jones

@clairejonesart

A Siren's Call 1 29.7x42cm Mixed Media

A Siren's Call 2 29.7x42m Mixed Media

Vanessa Lawrence @vanessalawrencexx A Siren's Call 1 50x65cm Pastel

A Siren's Call 2 23x30cm Pastel

Jean Warner @jean_warner_art

Fishing Weights Digital

Ship Shape Digital

Emanuela Mae@emanuela_mae_agrini Agrini

La Borsa Rossa Digital On Ships Of Gold Digital

Kathy Wyatt @kathyillustration Sea Yarn 24x24cm Watercolour, Pastel, Wax Crayon

Dark Blue Solitude 46x46cm Wax Crayon, Paste, Gouache

Felicity Cormack @cormackfelicity

42x30cm Watercolour, Pastel, Ink

42x30cm Pastel, Ink

Kaz Mak Serenity 17x23cm Watercolour, Ink Seaside Shopping 17x23cm Watercolour, Ink

Luis@luishidalgo Hidalgo

9x12 Digital

Knit 9x12 Digital

Patricia Keilthy @patriciakeilthyart

Kicking Up Your Heels

Mysterious Maiden

Sarah Crozier @cabradraws I Travel The World And The Seven Seas 30x35cm Watercolour and Collage

Oh Buoy 30x34cm Pastel and Cut Paper

VENIE Artist of

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Venie Tee is a talented internationally-published fashion illustrator. Her illustrations evoke emotions and capture textures and fabrics beautifully taking advantage of the fluidity of watercolours and the control of a black pen.

the month interview

Hi Venie! I am really excited to be interviewing you tgus month for the artist of the month feature in GoldFoil Magazine. Tell our audience a bit about yourself. Hi, I'm Venie Tee, from Malaysia. I've been drawing since very young, which got me into art college to further my art learning journey. I have worked as a fashion designer since 2005 when I won a couple of young designer awards awarded by Malaysia/Mercedes Benz Fashion Award and started part time teaching in art colleges from 2010. I’m currently focusing on illustration work and some teaching and tutoring in fashion art classes.

Did you go to university or are you selftaught? Yes I did :) I went to Central Saint Martin for BA Fine Art and Academy of Art University San Francisco for MA Illustration.

Your work is very niche, when I look through your Instagram I see a very editorial type of fashion illustration. Is that what you were always interested in or did your work evolve over time? To be honest, I’m still exploring. I love editorial fashion illustration at the moment, but I have been drawing a lot of technical fashion drawing in my work related project. I find that in editorial illustration I can be more playful with ideas.

What got you interested in art and fashion in particular? I always love to draw and paint. I especially love textured and building stuff, that got me into Fine Art and my years in London changed me apparently. I fell in love with fashion and here I am, still loving designing and drawing fashion.

Is there a designer you admire and you would like to work with? I love Alexander Mcqueen (and who doesn’t :p) and also Maria Grazia Chiuri (Dior) for her exquisite collaboration with the folk’s art and preserving the old techniques in new designs. And I do wish to work with Allessandro Michele, loving his colourful eccentric work!

Walk us through your art-making process? I will start with research, always with research if I have an idea. For my personal work, I usually paint directly without any thumbnails or plans. But if it's a collection project or client's project it’ll be the conventional thumbnails to draft to final, and finish with some digital touch up.

Do you have a muse and how do you find inspiration? I used to draw Coco Rocha for her amazing poses and Devon Aoki, she’s probably the muse for the faces in most of my fashion drawings. Most of my inspiration comes from editorial or books and travels pre-pandemic, and since the pandemic, the DCC session and poses have been much of an inspiration in my work.

What is your favourite work of your art? It will be painting / drawing on paper. I’m exploring the possibility of drawing on a big canvas and some murals at the moment and hope it will be fun.

And finally, what is a piece of advice you would give to your younger self or an aspiring artist? Keep drawing! And keep exploring.

On the cover Photography: Amy Lauffer @_realrocknrolla Model: Samya Arrat @sam_yarra

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