INTRODUCTION
Fashion illustration is an essential tool in the world of fashion design. It enables pieces to be represented and the designer’s main ideas of a certain concept or look to be conveyed.
The first fashion illustrations appeared some 500 years ago. They were predominant in fashion magazines until the early twentieth century. At that time, howver, advances in printing led to the inclusion of photographs in magazines, which replaced illustration, particularly in the most important publications of the day, such as Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar. But because photography is a faithful representation of reality, and illustration is an artistic representation, with more space for imagination and subjectivity, illustration was never completely lost. ...
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