A (Star)Light Touch

I came across this Georges Lepape illustration today while flipping through a fashion magazine. Isn’t it lovely? There is such a delicacy of touch in it – it looks like Lepape has used pencil, with perhaps a watercolour wash.

I haven’t seen it before (it’s more usual to see covers rather than editorial illustrations in books on vintage illustration), so it’s great that magazines are dipping into their archives and exposing these treasures to the light of day. Or the starlight as in this case.