Tag: Rico Lebrun
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Rico Lebrun for McCall’s
This month marks 125 years since the birth of the artist Rico Lebrun. To celebrate, this post is dedicated to his Deco-era fashion illustrations for McCall’s. Born in Naples, Federico “Rico” Lebrun (1900-1964) emigrated to the United States in 1924. He spent five years working as a commercial artist in New York City, creating fashion…
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Game, Set, Match!
To mark the last day of Wimbledon… Interwar pattern catalogues often feature tennis outfits on the cover. The American artist Rico Lebrun went one further with his McCall Quarterly cover for Summer, 1930 by including a men’s tennis match in the background, as well as one player ready with her racket and tennis whites. (For…
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