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The magazine Pourquoi Pas? -fashion illustrations

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Q & A: David Downton

By Cathy Horyn
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The magazine Pourquoi Pas? (Tony Cenicola/The New York Times)
I first met David Downton maybe five years ago at a showing of his drawings in Paris. His subject was Erin O’Connor. You might say David, who is English, has an obsession with Erin’s long neck and lines. Well, she was meant for charcoal. Shortly after that meeting, I asked him to sketch a Dior couture dress in the studio, for a story about the making of a collection. Our link then and now was our admiration for the work of Joe Eula, and a fascination with the man. I got to know Joe well and in the last years of his life we worked together on a number of illustrated articles for the Times, including one about the denizens of the back track at Belmont. This past January, at the Dior show, David told me he was planning to bring out a magazine of fashion illustration and asked if I’d write something about Joe. Issue #1 of Pourquoi Pas? has drawings by Rene Gruau, Eula, Richard Gray, Jason Brooks, with illustrations by David of Amanda Harlech, Jade Parfitt, and Carmen Dell’ Orefice. Among the writers contributing are Sarah Mower, Tony Glenville and Tim Blanks. The 72-page magazine is on heavy stock, costs about $40, and is available at pqpmagazine.com.

for more and for the interview..see this link to cathy horyn's blog
http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/
 
^thanks softgrey...
i well remember his drawings of Erin O. ... it was amazing!
 
been there, seen that.
PQP Magazine is amazing. i found it about month ago and it was such a discovery. i'm glad to see how fashion illustration 'strikes a pose'.
 
Oh this sounds fantastic,i simply adore fashion illustrations,i have never seen this mag,but i will look it up and try to get it.
Thanks for posting.
 

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