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ustralian born, Paris based Janelle Burger possesses a sprightly aesthetic to her fashion illustrations. She conjures scribbles and doodles that sometimes begin haphazard on the page, but are infinitely refined into realised fashion portraits. Styleyes looks to Janelle this season to illustrate the A/W 2013 collections. Equipped with a black sugar sketchbook and pastels in every shade, study the sartorial sketches of an artist who conjures up beauty on paper.
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“It seems odd that people of such talent are usually hidden from the public eye, and as soon as they’re discovered everyone wonders why they haven’t heard of them before."
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complete paper demolition every time the door is wedged shut. She cited an interest in fashion following her studies in fine art at Parsons Paris, a course that lead to landing freelance stints at Paris Fashion Week. What began as a two year course turned into a seven year stay, and a contract with The Illustration Room, an Australian artbased agency who regularly commission her overseas to scout street style subjects.
WHAT BEGAN AS A TWO YEAR COURSE TURNED INTO A SEVEN YEAR STAY
Burger grew up in the coastal city of Perth, and it was her father who taught her how to draw the female form at the tender age of four. Most of her early work focused on personal belongings, trinkets that had been passed down from generations in which she documented in her many moleskins. Part of her extensive scrapbook collection sits dubiously on the top shelf of her wardrobe, inching ever-closer to a
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