FIT Archives Salon: Bil Donovan in Conversation with Professor Lamont A. O’Neal

Join us in the FIT Library on the Sixth Floor of the Goodman Center at FIT for our first Archives Salon of the semester when fashion illustrator Bil Donovan will be in conversation with FIT professor and illustrator Lamont A. O’Neal.

In his 40-plus-year career, Professor Lamont O’Neal has been published in nearly every aspect of the fashion world, including the magazines Cosmopolitan, New York, GQ, Playboy, and Essence. Professor O’Neal’s list of fashion designer clients includes Oscar de la Renta, David Chu Nautica, American Eagle, and Polo Ralph Lauren. He also frequently contributed covers for Vogue Butterick. His credits include portraiture, children’s books and illustrations. Published works include Illustrated Men: Drawing and Rendering the Male Fashion Figure, and André: André Leon Talley–A Fabulously Fashionable Fairy Tale.

Bil Donovan is America’s leading contemporary fashion illustrator with an international following. Donovan’s instantly recognizable illustrative style has led to an enviable list of clients that include The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Vogue, The New York Times, Harper Collins, The Washington Post, Vanity Fair, Bergdorf Goodman, St. Regis Hotels, L’Occitane, and Saks Fifth Avenue. Donovan is the author of Advanced Fashion Drawing: Lifestyle Illustration, and has taught in New York, for more than 20 years at his alma maters: the Fashion Institute of Technology, The Art Students League, Parsons School of Art & Design, and currently at the School of Visual Arts New York.

This event is free and open to the public.