Lovisa Burfitt

Lovisa Burfitt is a Swedish Fashion designer and illustrator who lives and works in Paris since 2002. She has been working as an illustrator since she graduated from the Beckmans School of Fashion in 1997, and in 2001 she was invited as a guest student at the Royal College of Art in Stockholm. She started drawing illustration by accident. After graduating from college, she was discouraged because her teachers talked about how hard the business would be. She drew a lot of fashion drawing and human figure. After she finished her final collection, she started to get demands from boutique and stylist. She practiced a lot of times of fashion drawing in college. She chose to be fashion designer because she can express her creativity. Fashion drawing is a therapy for her. Her style is Meticulous in details, a clash of poetry, punk and playfulness. She usually use mix media for her drawing such as ink with brush, steel feather, felt pen, acrylic, crayons and so on. She covered the walls of H&M flagship stores in a few cities as Milano, Tokyo and Copenhagen with her drawings.