The artist has covered New York collections for over 16 years and has interviewed, as a journalist, several fashion designers and personalities for different publications. He loves the fun, art and beauty of the fashion business.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop culture are captured in the illustrations, paintings and watercolors that the artist creates. In some ways they are the same characters and events that Manuel Santelices covered in the past as a journalist in New York.
This vibrant piece of fashion illustration art by Santelices distills the cinematic extravagance and irreverence inherent to New York high fashion. Through expressive ink strokes and saturated watercolor washes, the work depicts an elegantly languid character adorned with rabbit ears, enthroned on a crimson armchair against a striking yellow background. Leveraging his background as a fashion journalist, the artist captures not just a playful, theatrical aesthetic, but the sophisticated, hedonistic attitude that defines the backstage world of the beauty business. A bold, magnetic composition that brings an irreplaceable contemporary narrative to art collections focused on design and style.
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The rabitt, 2025. Fashion Illustration Art
The rabitt, 2025
From the Fashion series
Watercolor and ink on paper
Dimensions: 12 H x 9 W in.
Signed by the artist
Unframed
Santelices is a chilean artist and journalist living and working in New York for the last 20 years. After writing stories about style, design, art, and politics for a number of magazines, including the Spanish editions of Elle, Harper’s Bazaar, and Esquire, and being a fashion writer in New York for Vogue Mexico and Latin American for 7 years.
