Mats Gustafson’s zen watercolour drawings

En pleno frenesí de las semanas de la moda del mundo: Nueva York, Londres, Milán, París, aquí y ahora para todos gracias a las redes sociales, hacemos una pequeña pausa con Another Magazine. Allí Kin Woo nos cuenta que el ilustrador de moda Mats Gustafson expone en Estocolmo Fashion, Figures, Faces: Mats Gustafson, una retrospectiva que resume sus treinta años de carrera.

Descubierto por Grace Coddington a principios de los años ochenta, el ilustrador sueco consigue atrapar en sus dibujos la esencia del estilo. Sus ilustraciones son apenas elegantes manchas que invitan  a imaginar. Con una simplicidad exquisita evoca texturas y siluetas de los mejores diseñadores. Artesano le definen en la revista, y no podemos estar más de acuerdo.

“No quiero ser considerado retrógrado o conservador, pero estoy muy contento de trabajar con mis manos y papel y eso es lo que más me inspira – me gusta ver la presencia de la mano. Suena muy reaccionario porque intento mantener mi mente y mis ojos abiertos. Pero a veces el choque de lo viejo es más interesante que lo contemporáneo”.Let’s stop just for a while the New York-London-Milan-Paris here and now let’s take a moment with Another Magazine. There Kin Woo talks with fashion illustrator Mats Gustafson about his last exhibition in Stockholm, Fashion, Figures, Faces: Mats Gustafson, a 30-year retrospective about his work.

Discovered by Grace Coddington at the beginning of the Eighties, the Swedish illustrator is a master capturing the essence of style with calculated watercoloured stains. With an exquisite simplicity, he evoques textures and silhouettes from the best fashion designers giving enough space to let your imagination run wild. He is an artisan, they say. And we couldn’t agree more.

“I don’t want to be considered a throwback or a conservative person, but I am very content to work with my hands and paper and I’m more inspired by that – I like to see the presence of the hand. It sounds so reactionary really because I try to keep an open eye and mind. But sometimes the shock of the old is more interesting than the contemporary.”Let’s stop just for a while the New York-London-Milan-Paris here and now let’s take a moment with Another Magazine. There Kin Woo talks with fashion illustrator Mats Gustafson about his last exhibition in Stockholm, Fashion, Figures, Faces: Mats Gustafson, a 30-year retrospective about his work.

Discovered by Grace Coddington at the beginning of the Eighties, the Swedish illustrator is a master capturing the essence of style with calculated watercoloured stains. With an exquisite simplicity, he evoques textures and silhouettes from the best fashion designers giving enough space to let your imagination run wild. He is an artisan, they say. And we couldn’t agree more.

“I don’t want to be considered a throwback or a conservative person, but I am very content to work with my hands and paper and I’m more inspired by that – I like to see the presence of the hand. It sounds so reactionary really because I try to keep an open eye and mind. But sometimes the shock of the old is more interesting than the contemporary.”