After 50 years of professional illustration, and 25 spent on fashion's front line – where he made a living sketching shows for publications including the New York Times and the Financial Times – David Downton, 64, is showing his debut solo exhibition, Théâtre de la Mode.
“I had planned for it to be retrospective,” Downton says, from an airy study in his home in Lewes, East Sussex. “But it has ended up being entirely new works I did over the summer, all based on sketches I had started, but never completed.”
