Bull (2019)

Aurore de La Morinerie is a French artist and illustrator. She first began taking calligraphy and Chinese painting classes while studying Fashion design at the Ecole supérieure des Arts appliqués Duperré, in Paris. It was in the early nineties that Aurore first gained recognition as a Fashion illustrator. Today, she works with Hermès, Chanel, Cartier, Omega, Maison Martin Margiela, Rick Owens, Tiffany, Neiman Marcus and Le Printemps department stores. She is also a regular contributor to the New York Times T Magazine, the American and British issues of Harper’s Bazaar, AD Magazine, ELLE France, as well as Le Monde’s weekly supplement issue.

In 2013 and 2015, the Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris – Palais Galliera, commissioned two body of works from her, the first being a series of monotypes for the Azzedine Alaïa exhibition catalogue. The second, a series of drawings for ‘La Mode retrouvée – Les robes trésors de la comtesse Greffulhe’, was featured both in the exhibition and in the catalogue. As of today, ten works of the artist are now part of the permanent collection of the Graphic Arts department of the Palais Galliera. A first personal exhibition has recently taken place at the Akio Nagasawa gallery in Tokyo.