Sparked by remarks in another thread, I was thinking today about fashion illustrators and how their graphic design work is often so wonderfully evocative of its age. Much of it makes great frameable art. George Barbier (1882 - 1932), in particular, - with his pochoirs for publications like the Gazette du Bon Ton has greatly influenced my impressions and affections for the teens and twenties:
Erte - if you'd fit him into this category! - is another that comes to mind. Even some of the catalogue work of the period, often uncredited, is absolutely gorgeous.
Anyone have any favourites, particularly from later eras?
![LaRoseraie72.jpg](http://www.porterfieldsfineart.com/GazetteduBonTon/images/LaRoseraie72.jpg)
![G-barbier-full.gif](http://www.mavericktheater.com/assets/images/G-barbier-full.gif)
![BarbierWave.jpg](http://www.jahsonic.com/BarbierWave.jpg)
Erte - if you'd fit him into this category! - is another that comes to mind. Even some of the catalogue work of the period, often uncredited, is absolutely gorgeous.
Anyone have any favourites, particularly from later eras?