DaCosta on the AOI Shortlist


For the second year running Nuno DaCosta is shortlisted for the AOI awards.

The nominated piece shortlisted in the Design Category is Nuno's collaboration with the 'wonderful and inspiring' Caryn Franklin MBE for "All Walks Beyond the Catwalk". The illustration is of a beautiful, powerful, sexy and curvier model, Nuno says "We would love to inspire future fashion designers, illustrators and fashion trendsetters to draw inspiration from a more varied pool of beauty rather than the formulaic cookie cutter vision we have become used to. Caryn Franklin MBE says of Nuno and the project:

Nuno is one of the few conscious fashion illustrators working today. He is aware of his power to set trends and agendas, and in addressing the body of the woman with empathy and understanding he is able to show a broader range of beauty and inspire up-and-coming illustrators to think outside the box rather than delivering the fashion formula of elongated cartoon or sexualised doll. I love the glamour, the fashion and the artful rendering he brings to all of his images. Most of all I love that the beautiful illustration he created for All Walks Beyond the Catwalk - of a more curvaceous body - proves that fashion illustration has a crucial role to play in the body diversity debate.

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