Photograph by Kelly Taub

About

The delirious, ingenious drawings of Rebecca Moses reminds us of fashion’s rapturous possibilities. Her enchanted girls, exquisitely and improbably adorned, are reminiscent of Diana Vreeland’s Harper’s Bazaar column “Why Don’t You?” in which the divine Mrs. V. asked her readers, “Why don’t you … use a gigantic shell instead of a bucket to ice your champagne? …” This same spirit of over-the-top whimsy—the great Why Not? —infuses every line of Rebecca’s fashionable universe. Taking full advantage of her medium, she offers up a world of fantastical, fashionable possibilities.

Rebecca is ever-transforming. The fashionable mind, artful vision and a deft hand, so evident in her artwork, has made her a fashion powerhouse both in the U.S. and Europe. As one of the first American fashion designers to enter the European market in the 1990s, she gained renown for modernizing Italian ready-to-wear house Genny, revolutionizing cashmere with her eponymous designer label and turning old-world stationer Pineider into a full lifestyle brand. Some of her most prolific work, however, lies in the field of fashion illustration where elite publishers and global brands like Italian Vogue, Vogue Japan, Marie Claire Italia, MAC Cosmetics, Fratelli Rossetti, Panerai, Kartell, Alcantara, Vera Wang, and others seek out her stylish eye and wit.  Her first book, “A Life of Style”, published by Monacelli  Press is a showcase of her creative vision and highlights her importance as a style force and inspired Ralph Pucci, who only works with the most influential innovators of this time,  to commission her to do a full line of mannequins based on her girls.  Moses has had several exhibitions of her art in New York, Miami, Los Angeles, Milan, and Tokyo. She is represented by Ralph Pucci International in New York and Nilufar in Milan.