The Giants of 20th Century – Those Georges and Pauls

Maybe because I’m not good at remembering names, I always feel confused about the names that looked similar while reading the books, and it happened again when I start learning Fashion illustration. There are several illustrators named George and Paul, even their styles of illustrations are quite similar. I will try to separate their works followed timeline.

Firstly, I will show you the protagonists of these George and Paul. Most of them are the illustrators, but one of them is a fashion designer who employed two illustrators we will mention later. We have George Barbier, Georges Lepape, George Wolfe Plank, Paul Poiret, and Paul Iribe here. Let's start from that fashion designer.

This man named Paul Poiret is a very famous fashion designer in the early 20^th century. The reason we have to mention him is that he asked Paul Iribe and Georges Lepape to draw the collections of his design and these illustrations became the representative works of Paul Iribe and Georges Lepape. Let’s remember his face and the color we use here because each color stands for one person.

Fig. 6-1  Paul Poiret and his cooperation with Paul Iribe and Gorges Lepape

 

Next, I will show you a picture with different colors on different names to help you to distinguish the illustrators and their styles.

Fig. 6-2 the introduction of Georges and Pauls

Finally, we will look at the last picture which shows a timeline of these Georges and Pauls involving the dates of their birth and death and the illustration events in their lifetime. Check the illustrators name with color if you cannot remember.

Fig. 6-3 the timeline of these Georges and Pauls