Fashion Illustrator Mats Gustafson

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Fashion illustrator mats gustafson.

Fashion illustration by mats gustafson. He graduated from scandinavian drama institute in stockholm in 1976 and immediately got a job as a. Icons by fashion illustrators antoine kruk and marc antoine coulon. 2003 join the fig mailing list.

Join now for early notification of new works exhibitions and exclusive offers. He studied costume and stage design at the scandinavian drama institute in stockholm and in 1978 had his first fashion illustrations published in british vogue. Gustafson s fashion and portrait illustrations have been included in french and italian vogue the new yorker and visionaire and he has created advertising art for hermes tiffany co yohji yamamoto and comme des garcons. His subtle elegant works can be seen in advertisements and articles for tiffany co vogue and the new yorker though most popularly for dior in addition to his drawings of archival dior designs a collaboration.

Illustration adds another way of looking at fashion says mats gustafson as a book of his drawings of dior designs is published. Mats gustafson captures the movements of the models and the styles of the garments. Yohji yammanto red for german vogue. Inside dior s new book dior by mats gustafson the house of dior is pleased to announce the release of the book dior by mats gustafson published by rizzoli.

Mats gustafson was born in sweden in 1951. A must see exhibition at the alfalibra gallery. This tome retraces the work of the swedish artist who reinterprets. Mats gustafson is a swedish artist and fashion illustrator in his watercolors and paper cut outs his hallmark style is the simple use of silhouette shapes and muted palettes.

Fashion illustrator mats gustafson in millesgården c fashion figures faces. Today we want to focus on someone who we ve been reminded of in a gift shop of les arts décoratifs where we saw a huge dior exhibition. This led to contributions in american vogue and andy warhol s interview magazine. Mats gustafson his huge impressive book of illustrations for dior was sold there and it was so pretty but also large and.

In the world of fashion there is a constant push and pull over the dominate medium splashed over the magazines. Purple hat for style com. Mats gustafson began his career in the 1970s where all the magazines were ripe with photography with very little look in for illustration and even less for abstract watercolours. Clothes bodies and faces are the common theme of the exhibition.

Mats gustafson swedish b. His images span a wide range of characteristics from the graphic silhouette to colourful and painterly expressions.