I'm not a fashion illustrator, but I have a few books about this art that I find very interesting. While there are actually many blogs and sites maintained by talented fashion illustrators and students that feature interesting work, I find rather disappointing the fact that at the moment we do not have an illustrator influenced by and influencing fashion such as René Gruau.
While pondering about fashion illustration, I digged in my personal archive and found in an old magazine two interesting images. The illustrations included in this post were done by Franco Moschino and show two designs by Gianni Versace for Donatella Girombelli's Genny (Autumn/Winter 1977-1978 collection, that was launched in New York).
They look quite nice not only because Moschino used fabric rather than pens and pencils to make them, but because he managed to recreate the draped and gathered effects of the fabric on the body pretty well, while also playing with transparencies (the sheer fabric in the sketch on the left reveals some parts of the body of the flat illustration, a nice game between 2D and 3D effects).
The two illustrations are somehow iconic as they were made by an Italian designer for another Italian designer working for one of the most popular Italian ready-to-wear brands from those years.
Some of you may think I'm just being nostalgic, but I'm actually wondering if there are further illustrations such as these ones in some long-forgotten archives and if it would be possible to organise an exhibition featuring them or even recreate affordable designs featuring these illustrations (guess an affordable Moschino-Versace-Genny T-shirt would be asbolutely unique and historically more interesting than a lot of supposedly trendy stuff currently on the market, wouldn't it?).
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