DELHOMME Jean-Philippe (Illustrator)

The supermodel, the hairstylist, the photographer and the assistant interact in a familiar scene from the fashion world. Such familiarity, however, becomes a novelty when painted in the form of a comic-style strip. An accessory to Jean-Philippe Delhomme's wit, fashions are blurred in favour of visually comforting satires of the affectations of those who lead their everyday lives in this industry. This bright, hand-painted gouache, which belongs to Delhomme's own one-page column published monthly in French Glamour since 1988, reveals a knowing artist. While drawing inspiration from his friends in the fashion trade, he claims to operate in, "a décalage, a kind of jet lag, that appears between life written up in magazines and what's happening in the real world". Delhomme's highly stylized and spontaneous caricatures recall the work of Marcel Vertès who, in the 1930s, fondly satirized the foibles of fashionable society. 

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