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Call for entries: fashion students’ drawing talent to be showcased in exhibition

Sketching with pen and paper remains relevant, even in a world obsessed with digital. That’s why the London College of Fashion (LCF) has partnered up with art supplies store Cass Art to organize a competition of fashion illustration for students. Now in its fourth year, #drawfashion will award winners with three art material prizes worth 1,000...

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The Career-Making Elevation of Fashion Illustration

Although the death knell for fashion illustration was struck as far back as the end of the first world war, that’s ancient history for a new generation of image makers who are snatching up brushes and applying washes in their droves. When Vogue put its first color photograph by Edward Steichen on a 1932 cover, a new norm was launched, and the...