Megan Hess

Internationally acclaimed fashion illustrator Megan Hess visits Rizzoli for an audience Q&A and signing. She will chat about her recent work, answer audience questions, and sign copies of her beautiful books, including Fashion in Color.

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Megan Hess was destined to draw. An initial career in graphic design evolved into art direction for some of the world's leading advertising agencies and for Liberty London. In 2008, Megan illustrated Candace Bushnell's number-one-bestselling book Sex and the City. This catapulted Megan onto the world stage, and she began illustrating portraits for The New York Times, Vogue Italia, Vanity Fair and TIME, who described Megan's work as 'love at first sight’.

Today, Megan is one of the world's most sought-after fashion illustrators, with a client list that includes Givenchy, Tiffany & Co., Valentino, Louis Vuitton and Harper's Bazaar. Megan's iconic style has been used in global campaigns for Fendi, Prada, Cartier, Dior and Salvatore Ferragamo. She has illustrated live for fashion shows such as Fendi at Milan Fashion Week, Viktor&Rolf Couture, Christian Dior Couture and collaborated with Chopard at the Cannes Film Festival numerous times.

Megan has created a signature look for Bergdorf Goodman, New York, and a bespoke bag collection for Harrods of London. She has illustrated a series of portraits for Michelle Obama, as well as portraits for Gwyneth Paltrow, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman. She is also the Global Artist in Residence for the prestigious Oetker Hotel Collection.

Megan illustrates all her work with a custom Montblanc pen that she affectionately calls ‘Monty’.

Megan is a bestselling author, with her fashion books and beloved children’s series (Claris, The Chicest Mouse in Paris and Young Queens Collection), selling over 2 million copies worldwide.

Join Megan Hess as she takes readers through a world of fashion - in color. An ode to the incredible use of color throughout fashion history, Fashion in Color highlights how fashion designers have used color to create iconic looks and shape fashion houses around the world.

Broken up into chapters by color (Red, Blue, Brown, Pink, Black, Orange, Yellow) each chapter covers iconic looks, the houses that are synonymous with that color (think Hermes and orange, or Valentino and red), fashion facts and history and Megan's signature stunning illustrations.

A celebration of how color shapes fashion, this book is Megan Hess's most stunning to date, with a rainbow of illustrations throughout and vibrant images that bring to life classic fashion favorites from around the world.

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