Since the 1980s, the work of French illustrator, Jean-Philippe Delhomme has explored the worlds of fashion and culture with visual wit and elegance.
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Characterised as a fashion illustrator, his work is a loose-limbed visual sociology of our times, a comedy of manners inspired by playing with the practices and formats of photography. His Unknown Hipster character (below) brings laugh out loud observations on the cool cultural class.
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‘His skill is his ability to create a believable narrative, with character and place, built around exuberant colour. “When I was at art school,” says Delhomme, “I didn’t know how to deal with colour, I thought were there some rules which I didn’t know? I went to a David Hockney exhibition in Paris and it was some kind of liberation he was just putting in colour like this and it works. From that day I have been using colours.’ Varoom editor John O’Reilly profiles Delhomme in the new issue. More here