This Artist Has Designed Prints for Miu Miu and Supreme—Now She’s Getting Her First Solo exhibit

photo: Courtesy of Eri Wakiyama

When Eri Wakiyama first saw photos of Miuccia Prada's Spring 2016 Miu Miu collection, she became greatly surprised—within the most useful method viable. Her whimsical, eerie illustrations of lighters and candlesticks had been used as prints on a couple of of the clothes. The shock reaction came as a result of before the clothes hit the runway Wakiyama had certainly been contacted by using Prada's Olivier Rizzo about growing a number of new works of art for the brand, but she didn't be aware of the place or when or how they'd in reality be used. "I never notion i might be making use of my work to fashion prints," Wakiyama says. "Print design became the closing aspect i assumed I'd be doing, but the Miu Miu team proved me wrong."

After her work debuted on the Miu Miu runway, Wakiyama went on to collaborate with greater style manufacturers, together with Supreme, Alyx, and Calvin Klein. however regardless of the attention she's receiving from designers and her full-time gig in visual merchandising for an enormous retailer, Wakiyama is happiest sketching her own paintings, on her own phrases. Tonight she'll be celebrating it together with her first solo gallery display at Procell at 5 Delancey road in reduce ny. The exhibition points watercolors and acrylic on paper, normally depicting Wakiyama's signature unidentified woman in a variety of states of emotion.

in a single graphic the girl has vibrant blue hair and is consuming strawberries. somewhere else she's floating in a lily pond or licking a sprinkles ice cream cone wearing coronary heart-printed boxers. though there isn't any direct reference to style within the solo demonstrate, Wakiyama does admit that "vogue has at all times been part of my illustrations." She studied trend design at Parsons after moving to new york from her home in Northern California and adds that she grew up loving anime. "The costumes and outfits are any such vital part of creating a character and character."

Wakiyama's melancholy fairy girls certainly have character, even if it's expressed through their posture, gaze, or trend. They seize one's attention, always on Wakiyama's Instagram page or printed on a T-shirt or a dress. "I've at all times been greater relaxed placing my work on the internet or participating with individuals on commissions," the artist explains. "although I'm in a position to attain a tons wider audience this way, it nevertheless feels very a ways. Seeing an actual human reaction will always be more precise than a like on Instagram."

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