32 fashion illustrations by Alfred Cabrera, also included are illustration copies with artist notes and fabric swatches
Details
mixed media (charcoal, marker, graphite on paper)largest: 12 x 9 inches
Provenance
Property From the Estate of Geoffrey Beene. Proceeds from this item to benefit the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Condition
overall good condition, some drawings with light toning/creasing and some with minor staple holes, drawing on green paper with loss to lower right corner
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Frame Information
unframed
Alfredo Cabrera
AmericanXX/XXI
Alfredo Cabrera is an award-winning fashion designer and illustrator based in New York City. He has designed for Geoffrey Beene, Polo Ralph Lauren, Victor Alfaro. He also lent his talented fashion illustration skills to ad campaigns and window displays to Henri Bendel, Missoni, Gianfranco Ferre, Tommy Hilfiger, Hollister and many more famous fashion houses. Cabrera is a faculty member at the renowned Parsons Institute / New School for Design. He is the author of “101 Things I Learned in Fashion School” which is a career guide, fashion design and self-help book that describes the different strategies of becoming successful in fashion design.
