A Day's Fashion Illustration Workshop With Stuart Mckenzie

Join us for a day's fashion illustration workshop with Stuart McKenzie, exploring the beautiful retro and vintage fashion imagery within the Museum of Brands collection. Workshop participants will learn how to research Museum objects and form into moodboards, before experimenting with a range of media and design development within Fashion Communication. Participants will build key skills around fashion illustration, and leave with a body of research, a mini portfolio and a product prototype. But most of all, it's a chance to be creative and work directly with an illustrator!

All materials provided, for ages 14 - 21.

About Stuart McKenzie:

"The illustrative style of Stuart McKenzie borrows from the haute couture designer – the singularity of line to express a form."

A graduate of Central St Martins, Stuart Mckenzie worked as a studio assistant at Vivienne Westwood for 5 years where he would illustrate the collection as a means of communicating the theme to the rest of the studio. Nomination by Fashion Photographer Elaine Constantine as an up and coming talent in ID Magazine 200th Edition led to Stuarts first commission working with designer Peter Saville to illustrate Selfridges Spring / Summer 2001 in store campaign.

Creative Fashion Illustration - How to Develop Your Own Style is Stuart McKenzie’s first book published by Bloomsbury which launched in November 2014.

Clients include: Elle Magazine, Elle Decoration, Selfridges London, L’Oréal, Clairol, Harper Collins, US Cosmo, Grafik Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar and Cosmopolitan.


About the Museum of Brands:

Just around the corner from the world-famous Portobello Road Market stands a treasure trove of retro design and memories. Imagine walking through galleries full to the brim with oddities and wonders alike, where every corner you turn leads you into a different decade. You’ll see Rimmel cosmetics from the 1890s, First World War Oxo Cubes, Mars Bars, Rolos and KitKats from the 1930s, a 1970s Chopper Bike and around 12,000 other items that will open your eyes to the way we lived and shopped.