It’s taken me a while to track down the name of illustrator Tristan Galdos Del Carpio[via philippearnaud.com]. His portraits of various fashion aficionados commissioned by Self Service magazine [selfservicemagazine.com] ‘back in the day’ have been etched into my memory. It wasn’t until acquiring Ezra Petronio and Suzanne Koller’s [petronioassociates.com] recent tome (I say ‘tome’ not cause of weight but because of the hefty price tag) [jrp-ringier.com], that I could finally look it up (I think my old issues of Self Service are still in my Mum’s garage in Australia). His recent work does not disappoint either. There’s a nervous energy in his linework that makes anything pop… even dower old fashion bods.
