Century Evolution Of The Fashion Illustration

The 20th century was the one where more amazing happened. Among them, the computer network and digital technology should be the most surprising ones, which were changing the way of people's life quietly. As the digital technology almost touched every aspect of people's life in depth, fashion illustration, an ancient and extremely charming form of drawing art, was bringing out its brand-new vitality and energy, which was unpredictable and more than what you can imagine after the Photography Technique was born in the mid-twentieth century.Form the period of early twentieth to the mid-twentieth century, fashion illustration was developing rapidly and many famous fashion illustrators made themselves known to the world. They illustrated the fashion with their own unique styles, which is more impressive and creative comparing with the former ages before the twentieth century. Obviously, this period reached the peak of fashion illustration. Then, fashion illustration was put in a corner when photography technique made the acquaintance of the world, even in a long time, it went away from us.Fortunately, taking advantage of the development of computer technology in 70s and 80s, fashion illustration gained its rebirth. When former style of drawing combined with the newly developing digital technology, the fashion illustration, with stronger visual impact and sense of modern than the early and mid twentieth, was stepping towards us. All of these made us believed fashion illustration would be more rich and diversified than ever before in future development.As a popular art, Fashion Illustration is welcome by the public throughout its growing. Combining extremely high artistic aesthetic value and profound historical perceived value, Fashion illustration however is not respected as it should be, but only performed as a spreading part of public art. On practice, there are mass excellent works of Fashion Illustration around us. On theory, few people dedicate to the specific induction and scientific study towards different artistic style. This paper aims at contributing to strengthening the theory study of Fashion Illustration. From a historic perspective, the investigation, analysis, demonstration and conclusion in the paper, will certainly help us make a comprehensive insight and grasp the future of Fashion Illustration.The study mainly explores the distinct evolution including succession on the style of fashion illustration art among the early, mid, late stage of the twentieth century. Research shows styles of drawing art can be divided into art decoration style, simple artistic style, artistic style of magic, the reality artistic style, hand-painted art style, digital art style, classical art style, post-modern artistic style, artistic style of cartoon animation, street art graffiti style and etc. Since then, through the detailed comparison and research on the inheritance and evolution of the artistic styles of these fashion illustrations, the paper combines the context and structures the content on the purpose of presenting readers the result of the research by words in a plain view.