Dylan Sartin, a tattoo artist and illustrator, poses for a portrait at Twister Anchor tattoo shop in Ocean Springs, Miss., on Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021.
OCEAN SPRINGS, Miss. (AP) — Moschino, an international luxury fashion brand from Italy, is known for loud, expressive designs with lots of bold color. And now, a Mississippi Coast artist is helping make it more colorful.
Their clothing and accessories often retail from several hundred to several thousands of dollars and have been worn by the biggest celebrities.
Dylan Sartin, 30, of St. Martin, is a tattoo artist at Twister Anchor Tattoo in Ocean Springs recently got the opportunity to collaborate with Moschino to create several illustrations.
Sartin, who has been tattooing for eight years, made an Instagram post back in 2019 showing off a recent tattoo he did inspired by Moschino. He tagged in the post both Moschino and its creative director, American fashion designer Jeremy Scott.
To his surprise, a month after the original post, Scott reached out to Sartin and commissioned him to create some illustrations to be used on future Moschino designs.
“When he contacted me I was star-struck,” said Sartin in a phone interview. “He is super prominent in the fashion world.”
Sartin collaborated with Scott, going back and forth on the designs for a few months before they settled on the final designs: watercolor paintings of personified fruits wearing Moschino designs inspired by Brazilian actress and singer Carmen Miranda’s signature fruit headdress.
