This document provides a history of fashion illustration from the late 1800s to present day. It begins with stiff illustrations depicting elaborate costumes in the late 1800s used in fashion plates. By the 1920s, illustrations graced magazine covers and incorporated more curvaceous figures. Photography replaced illustrations in the 1940s due to avant-garde photographers. Illustration had a resurgence in the 2000s. The document also profiles several international and national fashion illustrators and their styles.