Blachette
Blachette is the creative pseudonym of Camille Blache, a freelance illustrator and sneaker addict. She has become an essential figure in the online illustration community, thanks to a visual style that mixes humour, emotion, and current events which are brought to life by a cast of illustrated characters. Her drawings are shared widely on Instagram, and she has built a significant audience on social media who eagerly await her vignettes on subjects of society or everyday life.
Originally from Perpignan, in the South of France, she has lived in Paris for the past seven years. Blachette studied marketing at business school, but her creative practice is self-taught and inspired by fashion, music and the daily lives of ordinary people. She publishes drawings of the ‘outfit of the day’ of anonymous people seen in the street, in transport, or clips, but also scenes from her daily life, from the perspective of a twenty-year-old fan of street culture. Blachette (and her ever-present pair of sneakers) is committed against discrimination and for the protection of the environment.
She is a regular contributor to, and the only illustrator featured in Fumigène Magazine, a quarterly title born in the suburbs of Caen that reconciles media and suburbs through street literature, culture and politics. Her clients include Adidas, Foot Locker, Stabilo, Rolland Garros, JD Sports, Adobe and La Maison Puget. She has authored a comic book and is currently working on the sequel. Blachette says, “I transcribe daily scenes in drawing in a humorous way. I also have fun reproducing the looks of people I pass in the street. I really like being inspired by what surrounds me but also by the music I listen to.”