Fashion Illustrator Mats Gustafson

1951 is an artist and illustrator working in watercolor and pastel media.

Fashion illustrator mats gustafson.

Purple hat for style com. 2003 join the fig mailing list. Watanabe grey for vogue italia. 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.

Fashion illustration by mats gustafson. His images span a wide range of characteristics from the graphic silhouette to colourful and painterly expressions. In 1980 he moved to new york. 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.

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. Clothes bodies and faces are the common theme of the exhibition. Mats gustafson his huge impressive book of illustrations for dior was sold there and it was so pretty but also large and. Mats gustafson swedish b.

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. This tome retraces the work of the swedish artist who reinterprets. Illustration adds another way of looking at fashion says mats gustafson as a book of his drawings of dior designs is published. Mats gustafson was born in sweden in 1951.

Yohji yammanto red for german vogue. This led to contributions in american vogue and andy warhol s interview magazine. Icons by fashion illustrators antoine kruk and marc antoine coulon. A must see exhibition at the alfalibra gallery.

It s been too long a while since we last shared with you the love for our design idols. 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. In the world of fashion there is a constant push and pull over the dominate medium splashed over the magazines. He graduated from scandinavian drama institute in stockholm in 1976 and immediately got a job as a.

Join now for early notification of new works exhibitions and exclusive offers. 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.