Kadri Veisner

Kadri Veisner is a fashion stylist and fashion drawing artist, who quickly (in 1-2 minutes) is able to sketch fashion figures on paper, when given a model standing in front of her or a fashion photo. Kadri Veisner's fashion drawings are very colorful and eye-catching, feminine and essentially sketched directly on paper with one straight line. She uses aquarelle colors and ink for conjuring up her images.
Kadri Veisner comes from the small southern Estonian town of Võru. Her great-grandfather was a village tailor, which is where her genetic interest in working with clothes comes from. As a child, living in the Soviet Union at a time when neither clothes nor dolls were available, one could only dream of Barbies, so the little girl was resourceful and started drawing paper dolls and (clothes to put on) for herself. With her great-grandfather's Singer sewing machine, the items found in the grandmother's wardrobe were given a new image by re-sewing. She returned to drawing dolls, now making fashion drawings in the same style, while studying fashion stylistics at the Estonian Academy of Arts (finished 2014). As a teacher, she created a system to teach others to draw the same way, and by popular demand, Kadri's fashion drawings moved onto...

2018- 2021 Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM) MA Contemporary Media
2010- 2014 Estonian Academy of Arts (EKA) BA Fashion Stylistics

2023 Dec- 2024 Jan Estonian Tallinn University/Fashion drawings exhibition "Arrival of #Kadrimmud" See video here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CznzrrPtQ77/