Fashion Highlight: Izak Zenou

I love looking at beautiful illustrations.

I’m still sad I didn’t inherit my mother’s artistic talents and can’t draw well. But I do appreciate sketches and really love colorful watercolor drawings. There is a sense of lightness, fluidity and bold color that comes with watercolor paintings. Fashion illustrations are one of my favorite illustration categories. So it comes as no surprise that I love fashion artists like Cate Parr and Izak Zenou.

Izak Zenou is a prolific illustrator whose work may unknowingly be familiar to you. Izak Zenou’s brand motto is “smile” and this is represented by young, fashion savvy females. His illustrations have graced everything from Celine scarves to Sephora cosmetics as well as filled the pages of many publications such as Vogue, The New Yorker, and In Style. But his longest brand relationship has been with Henri Bendel, the edgy yet classically cool New York department store.

Here are a few of my favorite classically cool Zenou fashion figures:

izak zenou red shirt and shorts