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David Downton – A Continuous Line. David Downton is a fashion illustrator and artist. In 1996, the Financial Times commissioned him to draw at the couture shows and since then David has become known principally as a fashion illustrator. His reports from the shows have been seen internationally: in the US, China, Australia and the Middle East, as well as in almost every leading UK broadsheet and supplement. In 2007, David launched. 16 November 2010 at 10:00 pm. Dear David (if this is you),. You are commen...
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David Downton – A Continuous Line. Author Archives: David Downton. David Downton is one of the world's leading fashion artists as well as a published writer on fashion illustration. David Downton talks to master milliner Stephen Jones about working with the late, great Tony Viramontes. DD: When did you meet Tony Viramontes? SJ: We met in 1984, when Vogue commissioned him to do a series of illustrations of the … Continue reading →. Masters of Fashion Illustration. Masters of Fashion Illustration. David Do...
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Launched! | David Downton – A Continuous Line
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David Downton – A Continuous Line. London. 07.09.2010. London College of Fashion hosted the first of three. Masters of Fashion Illustration. Sydney. 14.09.2010. No orange skies in Sydney, just rolling thunder and sheet rain. We were at Café Sydney, on the 5. And toasted her foresight in commissioning not one but four cover portraits of Cate Blanchett for their 50. Anniversary issue. Her prescient good taste was rewarded shortly afterwards with a Maggie (a magazine cover of the year award). Build a websit...
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Booked! | David Downton – A Continuous Line
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David Downton – A Continuous Line. For the last two years I have immersed myself in the work of the 20th century’s greatest fashion illustrators. It wasn’t a chore. What drew me to fashion in the first place was not the clothes and not the shows, but a group of artists whose elegant, reductive line recorded and interpreted the world of fashion in a way that was unique. They were the. Masters of Fashion Illustration…. And they are the subject of my new book. Don’t get be wrong, we are not talking. I have ...
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Viva Viramontes! Part 2 | David Downton – A Continuous Line
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David Downton – A Continuous Line. David Downton talks to master milliner Stephen Jones about working with the late, great Tony Viramontes. DD: When did you meet Tony Viramontes? SJ: We met in 1984, when. Commissioned him to do a series of illustrations of the new femme fatale . They wanted hats for the piece, which is how I got involved. DD: An illustrated fashion story was a rarity then, even more so now. But it still felt like a big thing to be included. DD: It sounds like a regular 80s photo shoot.
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Viva Viramontes! | David Downton – A Continuous Line
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David Downton – A Continuous Line. Part 2 →. Tony Viramontes was one of the defining fashion illustrators of the 1980s. His career was all too brief (he died aged just 31) but his hedonistic, sexy, and unapologetically glamorous images caught the spirit of the times in a way that was unique. I first became aware of his work in 1984, when British. I could find almost no information on him. Finally, I called Stephen Jones, (whose hats featured in the. La Mode en Peinture. Heralded a bold new phase. But...