KEYNOTE: This stunning survey reveals the genre of fashion drawing to be an art form in its own right. Drawing Fashion celebrates renowned art dealer Joelle Chariau's unique collection of some original works define the fine art of illustrating fashion, from Poiret, Chanel, Balenciaga, and Dior to Comme des Garçons, McQueen, and Viktor tRolf. This catalogue, which accompanies the exhibition at the Design Museum in London, showcases fashion illustrators at their creative heights: Lepape at the beginning of the century, Bérard in the 1930s and Forties, Cecil Beaton in the Fifties, Antonio from the Sixties to the Eighties, and current artists Mats Gustafson, François Berthoud, and Aurore de La Morinerie. In their engaging and highly informative essays, New York Times Magazine journalist Holly Brubach and London Sunday Times chief fashion writer Colin McDowell reveal how the art of drawing fashion continues to reflect not only the spirit and style of the decades, but also the wider social and cultural changes of the past century. AUTHOR: Colin McDowell is London Sunday Times' chief fashion writer. He is the author of numerous books on fashion and fashion-related subjects, including the seminal McDowell's Directory of Twentieth Century Fashion. Holly Brubach is a journalist specialising in fashion, architecture, and design. She has written for Vogue, The New Yorker, Atlantic Monthly and has been the Style Editor of the New York Times Magazine. She has also authored three books, including A Dedicated Follower of Fashion, a collection of her essays. ILLUSTRATIONS 184 colour illustrations *
