Etosha PaulFashion designer · Seoul / Kolkata
Sketchbook · illustration

Drawn first.

Watercolour, pencil and ink. The architecture degree shows in the references; the fashion degree shows in the notes.

01

Archiplex

Pre-university

A collection inspired by famous architectural illustrations, drawn by hand in watercolour and pencil before fashion school. Each look answers a building or a drawing: a cantilever, a facade grid, a jharokha window.

Eight watercolour fashion illustrations inspired by architectural drawings
Archiplex, eight looks
Eight architectural illustrations used as references
The architectural references
Etosha wearing the made outfit from Archiplex: teal and white wide trousers with an orange and teal top, against an orange wall
The final design, made and worn
02

Hand illustrations

2024

Pencil and colour-pencil sketches with construction notes in the margins: a pleated cape with a hood, a rope-detail skirt with wheel motifs.

Pencil illustration of a hooded pleated cape over a layered skirt, with handwritten notes
Pleated cape
Pencil illustration of a hooded look with a rope-and-wheel skirt detail
Rope skirt
03

Ninety silhouettes

2024

The silhouette development sheets for the graduate collection, kept here in full.

Silhouette sketches, sheet 1
Sheet 1
Silhouette sketches, sheet 2
Sheet 2
Silhouette sketches, sheet 3
Sheet 3
Silhouette sketches, sheet 4
Sheet 4