Mats Gustafson Illustrator

The broad sweep of his brush transfers the most exquisite garments senses and emotions memory and fragility to paper suggesting an almost poetic arbitrariness.

Mats gustafson illustrator.

Under sin utbildning fick han några av sina illustrationer publicerade i svenska modemagasin och. A solemn simplicity even. This february marks the 70th anniversary of christian dior s smash debut at which he introduced the new look. 1951 is an artist and illustrator working in watercolor and pastel media.

Mats gustafson began his career in the 1970s where all the magazines were ripe with photography with very little look in for illustration and even less for abstract watercolours. Mats gustafson född 1951 är en svensk akvarellist och modeillustratör verksam i new york. Dior by mats gustafson. He graduated from scandinavian drama institute in stockholm in 1976 and immediately got a job as a costume designer for swedish television.

In 1980 he moved to new york. Mats gustafson is a swedish artist and fashion illustrator in his watercolors and paper cut outs his hallmark style is the simple use of silhouette shapes and muted palettes. Mats gustafson was in paris for just enough time to recover from stockholm s icy breeze throw a soirée for his new book dior by mats gustafson and see maria grazia chiuri s latest collection for the house. Mats gustafson was born in sweden in 1951.

Exhibition catalogs books. Mats gustafson eric 1991. Mats gustafson swedish b. Gustafson var inledningsvis inriktad på att arbeta med film eller teater och har en utbildning inom scendesign.

He studied costume and stage design at the scandinavian drama institute in stockholm and in 1978 had his first fashion illustrations published in british vogue. Gustafsson came to the attention of lovers of improvised music as part of a duo with christian munthe started in 1986 as member of gunter christmann s vario project and the band gush started in 1988. Fashion illustrations landscapes erotic portraits plants floating swans. His subtle elegant works can be seen in advertisements and articles for tiffany co vogue and the new yorker though most popularly for dior in addition to his drawings of archival dior designs a collaboration.

Gustafson brought his inimitable style of illustration to the fashion brand just as raf simons joined in 2012. Gustafson s fashion and portrait illustrations have been included in french and italian vogue the new yorker and visionaire and he has created advertising art for hermes tiffany co yohji yamamoto and comme des garcons. Though gustafson denies any knowledge that simons requested him.