ERIC (Illustrator)

Using the broad mirror of a powder room, Eric is able to describe the jewelled details of Jean Patou's evening dress from both front and rear. He had a deft, calligraphic style whereby the model and the clothes she was wearing were minutely examined. To get such accuracy of observation, Eric drew from life and insisted the models remain static in their settings for long periods. To him, fidelity to detail was all-important. Born in America to Swedish parents, Carl Erickson studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago, where he acquired the training and discipline required for working with the figure. His first fashion illustrations for Vogue appeared in 1916. By 1925 he was settled in France, and apart from the period during the Occupation of Paris (when he returned to America), he provided Vogue with fashion illustrations on the modes and manners of the Parisian beau monde right up to the mid-1950s. 

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