Selected CLIENT List :
Collagerie
E.L.V. DENIM
Garrard
Adidas London
Pfeffer Sal
Madeleine Thompson Cashmere
V&A
Fashion Scout / London Fashion Week
Elena Nancu
Risbel Magazine
Overdue Magazine
Milk X Magazine
CTC Groupe, Paris
Wilew
Spacey Studios
AHM World
Popshot Magazine
Barbican
Bombay Sapphire
Burning Eye Books
Central Saint Martins
London College of Fashion
The White Company & Little White Company
Healthy Magazine / The River Group
+ more
Joanna Layla is a London-based fashion illustrator and contemporary artist. Her unique style applies fluid brushstrokes and refined composition to fashion artwork. Communicating both beauty and concept within her illustrations she has worked with numerous brands including E.L.V. Denim, Garrard, Adidas, and the V&A, and was named as Fida’s “One to Watch 2021”.
Her original compositions and distinct aesthetic have been commissioned as fashion editorial for Overdue Magazine, Risbel Magazine and Milk X Magazine. She has drawn live as artist in residence at London Fashion Week for Fashion Scout (2019-22). Layla is represented by House of Juba, Fashion Artist Agency, and for her original artworks by galleries in London, France, New York, and Amsterdam.
“I want to create beauty and joy through shape and colour whilst also making the viewer complicit in the reading of the image – leaving space for them to read their own narrative. Something complete in the incomplete. I aspire to an image that has depth, layers of meaning, whilst simultaneously retaining something minimal in its design. The word ‘Simplexity’ has been used to describe my work. I love that.”
Agency:
https://www.houseofjuba.co.uk/
Galleries:
Acid Gallery, France
I Love Illustration Gallery, Amsterdam
Spacey Studios, New York
Bleur Gallery, London
Recent Press:
https://www.fidaworldwide.com/pages/joanna-layla-the-painter-stripped-bare-by-her-bachelors
http://www.cicadawheels.com/art/joanna-layla-art/
http://revistapicnic.com/el-arte-contemplativo-de-joanna-layla/
https://www.konglomerat.berlin/konglomerat-x-joanna-layla-article
