Design Museum in London is set to open their new show Drawing Fashion opening November 3, 2010 on view through March 6, 2011 appears from the previews, to be a very dynamic show. The exhibition celebrates a unique collection of fashion illustrations from the 20th & 21st centuries. This is a description from their website:
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This exhibition showcases fashion illustrators at their creative heights: Lepape at the beginning of the century, Gruau in the 40′s and 50′s, Antonio throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, to current artists Mats Gustafson, Aurore de la Morinerie and Francois Berthoud. Film-clips, news reels, music and photography will sit alongside the original illustrations to reflect not only the spirit and the style of the decades but also the wider social and cultural changes of the century.
Design Museum’s new exterior wall for the opening of Drawing Fashion on November 3, 2010 in London.
Antonio. Joanne Landis Carnegie Hall Studio, New York Times Magazine. 1967
Mats Gustafson. Red Dress, Yohji Yamamoto, 1999
