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- Object:
Illustration
- Place of origin:
New York, USA (made)
- Date:
2009 (made)
- Artist/Maker:
Hiroshi Tanabe (maker)
- Materials and Techniques:
Pen, white pencil and heat transfer gold print on purple paper with a protective tracing paper overlay; the gold leaf has been applied to a photocopied pen drawing using an iron then peeled off before it has perfectly adhered; the tracing paper has been drawn on using coloured pencil and attached to the back of the purple paper with paper tape along one edge
- Credit Line:
Given by the artist
- Museum number:
E.119-2012
- Gallery location:
Prints & Drawings Study Room, level C, case CAT, shelf 3, box B
This fashion illustration by Hiroshi Tanabe depicts a dress which was designed by Alexander McQueen for his Spring 1999 Ready to Wear Collection. Tanabe produced a pen drawing of the dress, shoes and the outline of the woman's legs which was then photocopied onto the final purple paper. He used an iron to apply gold leaf to the photocopied drawing and then drew in areas of the dress using black pen and shaded the legs using white pencil crayon.
Tanabe, who was born in Kanagawa, Japan, is inspired by traditional Japanese woodcuts. He has produced fashion illustrations for a wide range of newspapers and magazines including The New York Times Magazine, British Vogue and Vogue Paris, and Harper’s Bazaar.
