Ruben Toledo

Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New York.[1]

Personal Life

Toledo and his wife Isabel met in high school in West New York, New Jersey.[2]

Books

In 1997, Toledo authored Style Dictionary a collection of drawings and watercolors. Ruben Toledo completed his first film, Fashionation, an animated history of French fashion, based on a book of the same name.[1] Toledo illustrated special edition book jackets for Penguin Classics Deluxe Editions of Jane Eyre, Dracula, The Scarlet Letter, Wuthering Heights, The Picture of Dorian Gray and Pride and Prejudice.[1]

List of titles:

Exhibit

Ruben Toledo's collaboration with his fashion designer wife, Isabel Toledo, was the subject of both a book and a museum exhibition titled Toledo/Toledo: A Marriage of Art and Fashion at The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology.[3]

Awards

Ruben and Isabel Toledo were the recipient of the 2005 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for their work in fashion.[4]

External Resources

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Steidl: Ruben Toledo". Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  2. ↑ Grinberg, Emanuella; Weinberger, Hannah (July 6, 2012). "Partners by design: Isabel and Ruben Toledo". Retrieved 2012-10-19.
  3. ↑ "Exhibition: Toledo/Toledo: A marriage of Art and Fashion". Contemporary Fashion Archive. Retrieved 2012-10-18.
  4. ↑ "Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Announces Winners of the Sixth Annual National Design Awards". Retrieved 2012-10-20.
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