Here’s a video bonus for Fashion Week: Former Project Runway contestant Andraé Gonzalo discusses how he created drawings depicting the style of imaginary ’50s designer Jacques Brevi, who gets the credit for one of the 28 not-quite-real styles “recreated” in Kate Hahn‘s Forgotten Fashions, a couture history that never was. Brevi, the book tells us, designed fabulous dresses women were intended to wear for that fleeting hour after they’d completed their household chores but before their husbands came home from work.
Hahn reports that she and Gonzalo are old friends, and she’s thrilled that he could do this and other illustrations, including the book’s cover. “Andraé has this great blend of sophistication and original wit, and he loves theater,” she says. “So he really brought drama to the drawings.”