Antonio Lopez

Antonio Lopez was born in Puerto Rico in 1943 and moved to New York City when he was two years old. He became a commercial artist and was fashion illustrator for Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Elle, Interview and The New York Times, active from the early 1960's through to his death. He worked in pencil, pen and ink, charcoal, watercolor, and Polaroid film, and his flamboyant illustrations were considered art and were shown at exhibitions in galleries all over the world in the 1970's and 1980's. He was also a designer of jewelry and conceptual designs such as window displays for Fiorucci and Studio 54. Moving to Paris in 1969, he and designer Karl Lagerfeld ran an exclusive salon in Paris for models and fashion personalities, and during his seven years there, he taught workshops and introduced many facets of American pop culture to the French. His portraits of models such as Jerry Hall, Jessica Lange and Grace Jones were collected in the 1982 book Antonio's Girls. In the last 10 years of his life, Lopez became interested in education, giving much of his time to lectures and workshops to students of fashion illustration.