Andy Warhol Fashion

by Andy Warhol and Simon Doonan

Book Overview

Before he found fame as the father of Pop Art, Andy Warhol was an accomplished advertising illustrator and commercial artist for fashion tastemakers such as Barney's, Neiman Marcus, I. Miller, Glamour, Mademoiselle, and Harper's Bazaar, This delicately beautiful, colorfully playful, and hugely influential fashion illustration work from the 1950s has never before been collected in a book. A pop object in itself, Andy Warhol Fashion is a fun and gorgeous...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811843173
• ISBN13: 9780811843171
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 255 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.9" x 6.6"

Customer Reviews

A very nice little book of fashion illustration for adults. Lots of fun drawings.

Fabulous Product

Beautiful fashion pictures! However, not as much text as expected. A great fashion picture book for adults.

ILLUSTRATING A LIFE MOST ARTFUL: ANDY WARHOL

These are the early illustrations from fashion magazines of the `50s, and they are just delightful. Shoes, fans, gloves and other glamorous necessities from the tastemakers of Vogue, Mademoiselle and Harper's Bazaar are full of wit, fun, style and a crazy cartoon-like kookiness that proves irresistible. The preface is written by Simon Doonan, the Creative Director of Barney's New York, who helps place the work squarely in historical perspective. While the drawings are clearly imbued with the unmistakable Warhol sense of fun, they also illustrate a very interesting relationship between what was commercial art and what was to become fine art. These drawings may have been originally done to illustrate articles and advertisements, but that strange, off-center sense of reality that Warhol later brought to his paintings and photographs is clearly present. And clearly still fashionable.