3. woodblocks and stencils.
Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New
York City. Toledo and his wife Isabel met in high school in West New York, New
Jersey. In 1997, Toledo authored Style Dictionary, a collection of drawings and
watercolors.
He completed his first film, Fashionation, an animated history of French fashion,
based on a book of the same name.Toledo illustrated special edition book jackets for
Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions of Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Scarlet Letter,
Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pride and Prejudice.HIS LIST
OF TITLES ARE
Style Dictionary. Abbeville Press. 1997. ISBN 0789203480.
Fashionation. Edition 7L. 2009. ISBN 3865213014.
Ruben Toledo's collaboration with his fashion designer wife, Isabel Toledo, was the
subject of both a book and a museum exhibition titled Toledo/Toledo: A Marriage of
Art and Fashion at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.
He won Ruben and Isabel Toledo were the recipient of the 2005 Cooper-Hewitt
National Design Award for their work in fashion.
7. Jason Brooks falls into the category of the Technocrats. These artists draw
but do not finish off with hand illustration. They digitally transform their images and
work towards the end computer generated product.
Jason Brooks (born February 23, 1969) is an artist, illustrator and author. He grew up in
Brighton on the south coast of England. Brooks is known for his design of the Hedkandi
compilations.Brooks studied graphic design at Central Saint Martins college, London, and
went on to take a master's degree in illustration at the Royal College of Art. While at
college he won the Vogue Sotheby's Cecil Beaton Award for Fashion Illustration.
In the 2010s, Brooks authored and illustrated Paris Sketchbook (2012), London
Sketchbook (2014), and New York Sketchbook (2017), a series of urban sketch books
published by Laurence King, London.[citation needed] London Sketchbook received the
V&A Museum Book Illustration Award in 2016.
Brooks’ experience of drawing live at fashion weeks in New York, London and Paris
Couture underpin his flair for creating bold and impactful fashion imagery. His signature
style continues to evolve in media ranging from paint and pencil to Photoshop and
Illustrator.
Clients include: Chanel, Cartier,Elle, The Face, Gray M.C.A, Sunday Times
Style,Visionaire,Vogue.
He won Vogue/Sotheby’s Cecil Beaton Award for Fashion Illustration,V&A Museum
Book Illustration Award 2016, London Sketchbook.,Author and illustrator of ‘Paris
Sketchbook’ ‘London Sketchbook’ and ‘New York Sketchbook’ (All available from the
11. Jordi Labanda works in style of gamine and sophisticates. This type of fashion
illustrator generates Imaginary worlds inhibited by flamboyant personalities.they use elements of
caricature and cartooning to formulate the characters in their work.He was born in Mercedes,
Uruguay and has lived in Barcelona since the age of three. He studied industrial design and began
to work as a commercial illustrator in 1993. Fashion, advertising and animation illustrator, Jordi
Labanda is recognized for his unique style creating beautiful images that combine environments
and fashion people. His editorial work created a new departure for fashion illustration opening up
a new world of opportunities.
As an editorial illustrator and trends chronicler, he contributes regularly to iconic publications
from the fashion and lifestyle world such as Vogue Japan, The Daily Telegraph’s Stella Magazine,
Bergdorf Goodman Magazine, Apartamento, Fanzine137, Candy, Harper’s Bazaar or El Magazine
de La Vanguardia. His illustrations have also been featured in publications such as Wallpaper,
Vogue USA, Visionaire and The NY Times Sunday Magazine, among others.
As a commercial illustrator, Labanda has collaborated with brands such as Louis Vuitton, Tommy
Hilfiger, Moncler, Neiman Marcus, Knoll International, Grand Marnier, Nissan, American
Express, Reebok, Zara, Adidas, Pepsi Light, Compeed, Target, L’óreal, Lladró, Swarovski, Alessi
and Vodafone.His work has been internationally shown with shows at museums and galleries from
