![]() ![]() There was also Fleur Cowles' imitable Flair magazine (1950-51) which ceased production 70 years ago. Then you have Kim Jones teaming up with Lopez's estate on intarsia furs and handbags - perhaps a somewhat less successful attempt at capturing the late illustrator's magnificent flair - once described by supermodel Pat Cleveland as inciting an 'orgasmic feeling'. From Paul Poiret championing Georges Lepape over 100 years ago to Christian Dior striking a career-long collaboration with René Gruau. I saw anything to do with art history as the equivalent of a wet dream illustration was my gateway into the past. Each illustration straddled a different decade, style and art movement that I was soon to be made more aware of during my inquisitive years spent as a teen. The 'dancing charm' of illustration Downton so fondly speaks of has always piqued my interest, right from the primary act of hanging prints and pictures on my childhood bedroom wall when I was younger. I'd first like to tell you just how a fashion illustration can dance. His reaction to Stoppard's generic question is immediate, ingenious and instinctive representing his true views on an art form to which he has, without a slither of doubt, dedicated the entirety of his life to. 'Magic, movement, the mark of a hand', Downton blurted out in response, before clarifying: ' Paul Klee said drawing is taking a line for a walk, and I actually think fashion drawing is taking it dancing.' There is an implicit sense of childlike wonder that can be elicited from Downton's response, an air of magical charm that doesn't quite match up when written or retold. ![]() So, 'What makes a great fashion illustration?' This was a question Stoppard posed to fashion illustrator David Downton in 2015. As of late, the industry has been talking about the resurgence of the fashion illustration all over again, what with the great Antonio Lopez's work turning up on the Fendi S/S 22 womenswear runway. Then just weeks ago, whilst skimming over the press release for the exhibition Drawing on Style, I stumbled on a remark made by SHOWstudio's ex-editor Lou Stoppard in 2016: 'To me, it feels illustration is very much having a moment in the spotlight'. ![]() Back in 2003, the writer and author Dominic Lutyens penned a piece for The Guardian titled Sketch show with a byline which alluded to somewhat of a 'resurgence' in illustration. The very term 'resurgence' and what it represents is the antithesis of a discussion that's always been deemed popular. There's been no resurgence in fashion illustration because it's always just been, plain and simple. But did it ever truly go away? I should clarify here that I did not propose this article to support fashion's much-talked-about 'resurgence' it exists instead to counteract it somewhat. He has chapters about media education in Media Literacy: A Reader Youth Media, International Perspectives on Youth Media: Cultures of Production and Education, UNESCO 2015 Yearbook Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialog, Ecopedagogy of Environmental Communication, Popular Culture and the Austerity Myth: Hard Times Today, International Handbook of Media Literacy, The International Encyclopedia of Media Literacy, and The Handbook on Media Education Research and a section in the MacArthur Foundation series, Digital Media Learning.Illustration has been around longer than fashion photography, yet over the past two decades, the term 'resurgence' has been bounced around all too frequently regarding the cherished art form, existing in an echo chamber made up of countless articles and exhibitions that speak of this 'new revival'. He has essays in several popular culture books, including Travelers Tales: Cuba, In Search of Adventure, Towards 2013, and The End of Money. He was an arts writer for Santa Fe’s daily newspapers, The New Mexican and the Albuquerque Journal North. López’s background in print journalism includes writing for LA Weekly, Frontera, Hispanic Magazine, Urban Latino, Southwest Art, El Andar, In These Times, New Mexico Magazine, Native Peoples, Tricycle and Punk Planet.
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