Forever In Vogue – Virginia

Before photography became standard imagery across the fashion landscape, new looks were premiered with hand-drawn illustration. Newspapers and magazines the world over featured gestures capturing not mere garments, but a dream–like energy and lifestyle of presence. Precise postures conveyed a sense of life and movement, while elongated proportions created dramatic poise making on–trend outfits, as much about the wearer as anything else. Once illustrated, fashion is depicted as a medium for the viewer to inherit confidence and definition. Patricia Roberts sparked imagination through the allure of trend and fantasy using clothing as a vehicle to transcend the mundane and archive history.