When I met Jason Brooks and David Downton at the Fashion Illustration event, back in December, they also had a selection of second hand illustration books. I managed to pick up this really cute one on Andy Warhol (which you can still purchase second hand) :

You generally don’t think passed his silkscreens, as they’re so iconic, but these early illustrations, when Andy worked for the likes of Harpers Bazaar and Vogue, are really gorgeous.

Simon Doonan, in the foreward of the book, writes:

” Andy loved flowers. And ladies shoes. And beauty and shopping and drag queens and Russell Wright china and Florine Stettheimer and Carmen Mirandaa and gossping on the phone and American culture and Liz and Marilyn and cookie jars and flirty boys and naughty girls.”

Oh the shoes – the shoes are magnificent!

“When I used to do shoe drawings for the magazines, I would get a certain amount for each shoe, so then I would count up my shoes to figure out how much I was going to get. I lived by the number of shoe drawings – when I counted them I knew how much money I had”. Andy Warhol

and, since there seem to be quite a few Fall 2012 shoe illustrations knocking around, why not throw some  future stars into the mix:

Samantha Hahn from Refinery29:

my favourite lady Bernadette Pascua from Decade Diary:

and you couldn’t possibly finish without some illustrations from the masters themselves:

Christian Louboutin:

Manolo Blahnik:

Shoes to dream about!