Michael Roberts (born 1948) is a British fashion journalist. Multitalented, english Michael Roberts is a living legend of international fashion. He has became known for working, through decades, as a journalist, editor, illustrator, photographer and colagiste for titles like The Sunday Times and Tatler. Since 1997, he's director of fashion of The New Yorker. Tina Brown actually referred to him as "the Jean Cocteau of the fashion world".He has only done four portraits among his dozens of illustrations: Grace Coddington, Karl Lagerfeld, Lenny Niemeier (Brazilian bikini designer and famous for her great parties) and Naomi Campbell. The last one was published in Vogue BR, in Naomi's special issue.
From Marc Jacobs to Louis Vuitton to Gucci, this summer’s fashion is writhing with exotic flora and fauna. Michael Roberts diagnoses the outbreak of zebra, python, and leopard, along with feathers, fringes, and bangles, as a full-blown case of Afrophilia.
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