for including me in your '9 Fashion Moments of 2009.' So beautifully written...
'Fashion illustration has become a lost art, this has become all too apparent in 2009 when only a handful of illustrators are still having their talents employed. But just as Scott Schuman’s street photography has revitalized the medium, Richard Haines has emerged to give illustration a new purpose. His gestural style is reminiscent of children’s book illustrator Quentin Blake, and by sketching the looks of NYC’s downtown boys Richard has captured a moment in time, a defining style tribe. His quick pencil lines define a clear silhouette and look — a long lean line, controlled volume, and youth-focused classicism. And more than style, expressing what photographers can often miss, Haines has captured the attitude. Suave stances, impish leans, the clustering of figures into an elegant still life of cloth and flesh. In the years since Slimane dictated this mood, Haines is the first to properly cement it into the artistic history of the male figure'.
Wow...
Tuesday, December 22, 2009
