Mats Gustafson unveiled his interpretations of Raf Simons' 1st DIOR Ready-to-Wear Spring 2013 collection, watercolor paintings which where exposed at the Dior café for the 'So Dior' exhibition at Harrods, from mid-March to mid-April 2013. Windows, pop-up store, exhibition, café - one had got the whole DIOR experience ... and here some of these wonderful illustrations! Love, Andrea
Mats' Bio
Mats Gustafson (Swedish, b. 1951) began his career as an illustrator
in the late 1970s, a time when editorial illustration was eclipsed by
photography, and watercolor as a conceptual medium had barely been
explored. A graduate of Dramatiska Institutet (University College of
Film, Radio, Television and Theatre) in Stockholm, he first applied his
graphic sensibility to the art of stage design. This experience
translated into illustration when he began publishing his work in
eminent international fashion publications. The elegant and subtly
expressive character of Gustafson's watercolor, pastel and cut-out
paperworks expanded the possibilities of fashion illustration and nearly
single-handedly reinvigorated the genre.
Gustafson’s fashion and portrait illustrations have been included in
editorial publications such as French and Italian Vogue, The New Yorker,
and Visionaire, and he has created advertising art for Hermès, Tiffany
& Co., Yohji Yamamoto, and Comme des Garçons. His work has been
exhibited internationally in solo and group shows. Gustafson lives in
New York.
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More DIOR To Love ...
"A little further on, the Dior café boasts a mixture of British inspirations and house codes: medallion-back chairs typical of the Dior decoration aesthetic, stately tableware and porcelain finely set with gray friezes. Christian Dior was a cultured gastronome, and also a man with a hearty appetite, as La Cuisine Cousue-Main..."
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