The captivating masterwork stands as a definitive milestone showcasing the formal sophistication and insider perspective of Manuel Santelices’s acclaimed The Fashion Series. This exceptional piece of original fashion illustration art intentionally challenges the clean perfection of digital runway photography, deploying raw ink pen markings and fluid watercolor pigments to distill the anti-fashion, counter-culture energy of the iconic Vetements brand. Drawing from his extensive 16-year career as a fashion journalist interviewing top industry icons in New York, Santelices structuralizes a stylized runway silhouette donning a minimalist white t-shirt that displays the handwritten meta-statement "FASHION IS MY PROFESSION," dynamically balanced by high-impact cobalt blue thigh-high boots and subtle pastel underwear.
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.
Purchase this unique investment-grade original fashion illustration art piece by Manuel Santelices, online directly through the The Art Design Project platform.
Original Fashion Illustration Art - Vetements fall, 2021. By Manuel Santelices
Vetements fall, 2021
From the Fashion series
Ink pen and watercolor
Dimensions: 12 H x 9 W in.
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.
