Laura Floris

Floris was born in Madrid in 1992, but grew up in Imperia, hence her strong Italian accent when she speaks in Spanish. At the age of 20, she returned to her hometown to study Fashion Design at the IED (European Institute of Design). After graduating, she worked as an assistant stylist for the TV sho...

Floris was born in Madrid in 1992, but grew up in Imperia, hence her strong Italian accent when she speaks in Spanish. At the age of 20, she returned to her hometown to study Fashion Design at the IED (European Institute of Design). After graduating, she worked as an assistant stylist for the TV shows ‘Zapeando’, ‘El intermedio’ and ‘El objetivo’, and in wardrobe for the Netflix series ‘La catedral del Mar’. During that same time, she spent hours sat at her desk in her room experimenting with new design techniques, from pencil to markers, acrylics to watercolours, in search of her own style. And that’s how, entirely self-taught, she came to get hooked on digital illustration using her graphic tablet. Floris had by now begun uploading her already characteristic portraits in saturated colours to her Instagram account, telling fresh stories that her followers heavily identified with. Brands began to take an interest in her work, from Ágatha Ruiz de la Prada, Desigual, Apple, El Pais, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar etc. Her characters, almost all girls, have four long eyelashes beneath each eye, strategically placed on the lower lid. This idea actually came about one stressful day when a drawing wasn’t coming out the way Floris wanted it to and she started to doodle on it. She put it aside for two days, until she noticed the detail of the eyelashes, and decided to make them a part of her work. Laura floris is the creator of the book "born her way" a biography of Lady Gaga.