Artistic Renderings
By Betsy Kroll
Fall 2004 Style & Design
Once a fixture at Studio 54 and a pal of Karl Lagerfeld's,
Antonio Lopez was one of fashion's most famous illustrators in
the 1970s and '80s. Today few people other than fashion insiders
and students (his is the most requested name in the library at
the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City) are
familiar with him. With this month's publication of Antonio's
People (Thames & Hudson; 176 pages), Paul Caranicas—who was
Lopez's best friend until the illustrator's death in 1987—would
like to change that. Caranicas' book is filled with hundreds of
Lopez's outrageous and colorful drawings and photographs. "He was
a virtuoso artist," Caranicas says. "He could draw in any style
he chose." Lopez was renowned for his impeccable representation
of the human form. His subjects included Pat Cleveland, Diana
Vreeland and Audrey Hepburn. Not to mention Jerry Hall, whom he discovered when she was 15. Known as Antonio's Girls, his
subjects were among his biggest fans.
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His life and death recalled in images
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