ILLUSTRATOR #5, SABINE PIEPER

Sabine Pieper is a fashion illustrator and photographer who lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Since her childhood time,  she has been passionate about drawing. Later then,  she studied photography and  starting career as a photographer for several years in Berlin. She have always been very interested in art and illustration, especially fashion illustration. She realised that it was her true passion. So she started to combine her knowledge of photography with her passion as an illustrator. Then she started illustrating by using a variety of media and mixes photography with fine art to her artworks from the very first sketches to the final images in which  in the end, the illustrations were combined with the photographed artworks. After that, she felt it was so playful and it became more and more excited about it.

 In 2010, where the time she gave birth to her first daughter and also her 10 years of work experience in the Fashion Industry, she was asked to do the Delicate Shades campaign for Vlisco, which is one of the world’s biggest players that produced African prints. Fortunately, she followed her passion  and started to work with Vlisco. It was her first big job after the birth of her daughter and she was excited to get the chance to illustrate a whole fashion campaign. It is the first Vlisco campaign that is illustrated and shows her illustrations in combination with 3D photographed Vlisco dresses.

The signature of her style is a feminime and unique compositions with colorful colors. It depicts from her sketches and illustrations.

Moreover, Pieper has worked for world-known fashion advertising clients like Vlisco, Dior, Chloe and she has been published in the likes of Elle, Vogue, and Mademoiselle. Her work has been shown in international publications and she has been recognized by the fashion industry as one of the best Fashion Illustrators of the moment.