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DESCRIPTIONJust as it was teetering on the edge of extinction, fashion illustration has been revived and repackaged. Some attribute the renaissance to the torrent of new magazines in the mid-nineties; others claim it's a reaction to redundant fashion photography. Whatever the cause, colorful, eclectic and contemporary fashion illustration is vibrantly alive in magazines, ad campaigns, and book design. The list of designers, publications, and companies seeking the fresh aesthetic of contemporary fashion illustrators is long and illustrious. In a world where fashion and art collide, "fashion illustration" is no longer confined to pencil sketches of the haute couture to come, but has been reincarnated in a colorful multitude of distinctive styles, mediums, and personalities. Author Laird Borrelli divides the artists and their work into three categories: the Sensualists, who work in the fine-art tradition with paints, inks, stencils, and pencil; Gamines and Sophisticates, illustrators using caricature and aspects of cartooning to comment on social behavior; and the Technocrats, the wizards of computer-generated art who adapt the old in the newest way. The result is a lively collection of the work of today's most evocative illustrators who are truly the shapers of what is hip and contemporary. This book, now for the first time in paperback, surveys the most visible and exciting talent shaping the industry now, including such artists as Jeffrey Fulvimari, who recently illustrated Madonna's smash-hit children's book The English Roses.
About the Author
Laird Borrelli is a fashion historian at New York's Fashion Institute of Technology. She is a contributor to the journal Fashion Today and has curated exhibitions at FIT.