René Gruau at The Fashion Illustration Gallery



The time has come. November is the month when three great fashion illustration exhibitions open: DIOR ILLUSTRATED at Somerset House, RENÉ GRUAU’S INTERNATIONAL TEXTILES MAGAZINE COVERS at The Fashion Illustration Gallery and DRAWING FASHION at the Design Museum. Cornering illustrator David Downton at the Fashion Illustration Gallery private view last week, I posed the question, why is fashion illustration suddenly being celebrated again? Is it a backlash to all things computer-generated?

“Well,” he said, “I suppose these days everyone’s a photographer, everyone’s a writer, everyone’s a blogger. But drawing is still one of those things that not everyone can do. It’s something people wish for, ‘I wish I could draw, I wish I had great hair, I wish I could sing’…”

Inspecting the Gruau at such close quarters, it was heartening to notice that those unmistakable inky flourishes were not as effortless as they may seem. Faint pencil lines, scribblings out and even tippexy white-outs were visible on almost every picture. It’s a compact but beautiful exhibition. Do go…

RENÉ GRUAU COVER ART / INTERNATIONAL TEXTILES MAGAZINE
NOVEMBER 5TH – DECEMBER 4TH 2010
THE MAYOR GALLERY
22A CORK STREET
LONDON W1S 3NA
020 7112 1979
www.fashionillustrationgallery.com

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Biker boy-girls



Thanks to Kingdom of Style, I discovered the studding work of No Discount whose heavy-metalled biker jackets (above) are causing a flurry of excitement in the bloggersphere. While this season may be all about the aviator jacket, SS11 is set to be a season for biker grrrls or, more accurately, biker boy-girls if Burberry Prorsum and Balenciaga are anything to go by. Hopefully, we all have a biker jacket in our possession by now so it’s just a matter of restyling (although I do love the proportions of the Balenciaga one *sigh*)…

[Images – top to bottom:
No Discount
Balenciaga/Style.com
Boo George
Burberry Prorsum/Style.com
Alasdair McLellan
Balenciaga/Style.com
Tommy Ton
Burberry Prorsum/Style.com
Paris Vogue]

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