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Fashion Illustration
Fashion illustration is the art of communicating fashion ideas in a visual form through the use of drawing tools or design-based software programs. It is mainly used by fashion designers to brainstorm their ideas on paper or digitally. Fashion illustration plays a major role in design - it enables designers to preview garment ideas before they are converted to patterns and physically manufactured. History Fashion illustration has been around for nearly 500 years. Ever since clothes have existed, there has been a need to translate an idea or image into a visual representation. Not only do fashion illustrations show a representation or design of a garment but they also serve as a form of art. The majority of fashion illustrations were created to be seen at a close range, often requiring the illustrator to have an eye for detail. Fashion illustration is said to be a visual luxury. More recently, there has been a decline of fashion illustration from the late 1930s when ''Vogue (m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
"La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady without Mercy") is a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called '' La Belle Dame sans Mercy''. Considered an English classic, the poem is an example of Keats' poetic preoccupation with love and death. The poem is about a fairy who condemns a knight to an unpleasant fate after she seduces him with her eyes and singing. The fairy inspired several artists to paint images that became early examples of 19th-century ''femme fatale'' iconography. The poem continues to be referred to in many works of literature, music, art, and film. Poem The poem is simple in structure with twelve stanzas of four lines each in an ABCB rhyme scheme. Below are both the original and revised version of the poem: First version The first version occurs in a letter from Keats, written over the period 14 February to 3 May 1819 to his younger brother and s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malo-Renault
Émile Auguste Renault, better known by his pseudonym Malo-Renault, was a French pastelist, color engraver and illustrator. He was born in Saint-Malo on October 5, 1870, and died in Le Havre on July 19, 1938. Biography Renault began drawing frequently in childhood. Auguste Lemoine (1848–1909), a drawing teacher at the college of Saint-Malo from 1883 to 1903, inspired him to draw from nature and in colour. Under the direction of Auguste Lemoine, Malo-Renault experimented with etchings. After completing his Bachelor of Arts, Malo-Renault went on to study architecture in Paris as a Stéphane Pannemaker student at the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs. It was only after his marriage in 1897 with Honorine Tian (1871–1953), known as Nori Malo-Renault, Nori Malo-Renault, a student of etcher , that Malo-Renault began his engraving career with the support of his wife for the development of color prints, in particular in ''Le serpent noir'' by Paul Adam (French novel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kenneth Paul Block
Kenneth Paul Block (July 26, 1924 – April 23, 2009) was an American fashion illustrator. He was an in-house artist for Fairchild Publications, owner of ''Women's Wear Daily'' and its offshoot, '' W''. Early life Kenneth Paul Block was born in New Rochelle, New York, on July 26, 1924. He grow up in Larchmont, New York, in the 1930s. Block was enthralled by the glamorous film stars of the era and by the fashion artists then working for ''Vogue'' and Harper's Bazaar. Dance and music also influenced his developing artistic style. In 1945, he graduated from the Parsons School of Design. His long-term companion was Morton Ribyat. Career Block began a career as a fashion illustrator, even though photography had overtaken it as the primary method of introducing new styles. He joined Fairchild Publications in the mid-1950s. Early assignments included sketching New York ladies on Easter Sunday as they exited churches in their holiday finery, hats and gloves included. Block lamented ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Blossac
Bernard de La Bourdonnaye-Blossac, also called Blossac (April 29, 1917 – December 1, 2002) was a French fashion illustrator. Bibliography Bernard de La Bourdonnaye-Blossac was born April 29, 1917, in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He has a sister, Genevieve, born in 1919. He spent his childhood in his family in Yonne and then in Paris. Outside school periods, the family went on trips. This was an opportunity for him to discover other horizons: Ireland, the Normandy coast, Switzerland, Belgium and the Côte d'Azur. A large property in Sologne "The Clarinerie" allowed his parents to satisfy their passion for hunting. Bernard did not like this sport and preferred to deal in drawing or painting landscapes or still lifes. Very early he was interested in the aesthetics of things: furniture, paintings and clothing. He was passionate about all of the Art Nouveau creations of that time. He stopped traditional education and entered a drawing workshop in the Montparnasse district of Paris: wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lila De Nobili
Lila De Nobili (September 3, 1916 – February 19, 2002) was an Italian stage designer, costume designer, and fashion illustrator. She was noted for her collaborations with leading stage and opera directors such as Luchino Visconti and Franco Zeffirelli, as well as her early work on fashion illustration at French'' Vogue'' magazine. Personal Lila De Nobili was born in Castagnola (Lugano). Her father was the Marquis Prospero de Nobili from an aristocratic Ligurian and Tuscan family and her mother, Dola Berta Vertès, was from a Jewish Hungarian family. Her uncle was the painter and Academy Award-winning costume designer Marcel Vertès, who painted Lila as a child. In the 1930s, she studied with the artist Ferruccio Ferrazzi at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. One of her own pupils was the costume designer and director, Christine Edzard, with whom she had a lifelong friendship and collaboration. She settled in Paris in 1943, and this would be her home for most of her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Irwin Crosthwait
Irwin Crosthwait (June 24, 1914 – September 15, 1981), was a Canadian painter best known for his role as a fashion illustrator. Biography Early life and education Irwin "Bud" Crosthwait was born on June 24, 1914, in Creston, British Columbia, the son of Lealand Crosthwait (1870-1944) and Ellen Johnson Crosthwait (1892-1944), owners of a farm in Creston. Throughout Irwin’s childhood, he was exposed to the artwork of his father. Henry Crosthwait, a native of New Zealand, worked for the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company prior to arriving in Canada and had sketched and painted his travels aboard the company’s ships. Following the separation of Irwin Crosthwait’s parents in 1928, Irwin and his brother, Tom, moved to Montreal and lived under the care of their uncle. Between the years of 1934 and 1938, Crosthwait was educated at Sir George Williams College in Montreal, where he studied Fine Arts, and the Pratt Institute in New York City. After completing his stu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dagmar Freuchen
Dagmar Freuchen-Gale ( Cohn; 30 June 1907 – 9 March 1991) was a Danish illustrator, writer and editor. Early life and education Freuchen-Gale was born Dagmar Cohn in Kongens Lyngby, Denmark, to Hans Cohn and Betty Johanne Neustadt. Her parents were Jewish and were members of . Freuchen-Gale left Lyngby in 1938 to go to New York. Career Freuchen-Gale was an artist and well known as a fashion illustrator, working for magazines such as ''Vogue'' and ''Harper's Bazaar''. In April 1947, Freuchen-Gale illustrated the cover of Vogue which presented new couture house Christian Dior. At the end of the 1940s Freuchen-Gale began to teach fashion illustration at the Art Students League, and continuing there for 20 years. She edited several books written by her second husband Peter Freuchen, an explorer and author. In 1968, she wrote ''Cookbook of the Seven Seas'', title inspired by Freuchen's book, ''Book of the Seven Seas''. Personal life Freuchen-Gale married three times. Her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom
Ruth Sigrid Grafstrom (1905–1986) was an American illustrator, producing significant work in fashion illustration during the 1930s and 1940s. Early life Grafstrom was born on April 26, 1905, in Rock Island, Illinois. Her father, Olaf Grafstrom was a painter from Sweden who immigrated to Seattle. His work influenced Northwest realist painters and at one time he chaired the art department at Augustana College. Ruth's mother was also an artist, focusing on ceramics. Grafstrom attended school in Chicago and Paris and after graduating, worked in fashion illustration. Artistic career She created illustrations for ''Vogue'' magazine, including some covers. Grafstrom also contributed illustrations to ''the Delineator'', ''Cosmopolitan'', and other women's magazines. Her illustrations featured real, approachable women. She drew "'real' women... hoinhabit 'real' space." Her illustrations sometimes included fabric collage, to give the image texture. Later life and death Grafstrom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Hoff (illustrator)
Max Hoff also ''Max Hof'' – an alias of Maximilian J.A. Hofbauer – (1903–1985) was an illustrator famous especially for his advertisements for Simpsons of Piccadilly and Astor Cigarettes. His art was perfectly representing the fashion of the 1950s and 1960s in Western Europe and North America. He was born in Vienna. Biography Early years Hoff studied portrait and landscape painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, where he had begun to make a name for himself through his stage and costume illustrations. A number of his fashion designs had been published under the alias ''Max Hof'' in the European journal '' International Textiles'', where Alec Simpson – the owner of Simpsons of Piccadilly – saw them. Simpsons of Piccadilly In 1936 Alec Simpson brought Hoff – at the age of 33 – to London, and commissioned him to produce a series of illustrations of handsome, virile, sporting men - wearing Simpson clothes - that were to become the representation of Simpson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Bérard
Christian Bérard (20 August 1902 – 11 February 1949), also known as Bebè, was a French artist, fashion illustrator and designer. Bérard and his lover Boris Kochno, who worked for the Ballets Russes and was also co-founder of the Ballets des Champs-Elysées, were one of the most prominent openly homosexual couples in French theater during the 1930s and 1940s. Early life Born in Paris in 1902, Bérard studied at the Lycée Janson de Sailly as a child. In 1920, he entered the Academie Ranson, where his style was influenced by Édouard Vuillard and Maurice Denis. Career Bérard showed his first exhibition in 1925, at the Gallery Pierre. From the start of his career, he had an interest in theatrical scenery and costume designs, and played an important role in the development of theatrical design in the 1930s and 1940s. In the early 1930s, Bérard worked with Jean-Michel Frank, painting screens, wood-work and drawing projects for carpets. In 1935, his friend Solange d'A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Erté
Romain de Tirtoff (23 November 1892 – 21 April 1990), known by the pseudonym Erté (from the French pronunciation of his initials: ), was a Russian-born French people, French artist and designer. He worked in several fields, including fashion design, fashion, jewelry design, jewellery, graphic arts, costume design, costume, scenic design, set design for film, theatre, and opera, and interior design, interior decor. Early life Tirtoff was born Roman Petrovich Tyrtov (Роман Петрович Тыртов) in Saint Petersburg, to a distinguished family with roots tracing back to 1548, to a Tatars, Tatar Khan (title), khan named Tyrt. His father, Pyotr Ivanovich Tyrtov, served as an admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, Russian Fleet. Early in life Erte became interested in a career in the theater or dance. But eventually, as he remembered years later, ''I came to the conclusion that I could live without dancing but could not give up my passion for painting and design.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
