Lot 40
American (XX/XXI)
16 Alfredo Cabrera Illustrations for Geoffrey Beene (1990-94)
Medium
mixed media (marker, pastel, colored pencil on illustration board)
Dimensions
each: 11 x 7 inches
Additional Info
Alfredo Cabrera is an award-winning fashion designer and illustrator based in New York City. He has designed for Geoffrey Beene, Polo Ralph Lauren, Victor Alfaro. He also lent his talented fashion illustration skills to ad campaigns and window displays to Henri Bendel, Missoni, Gianfranco Ferre, Tommy Hilfiger, Hollister and many more famous fashion houses. Cabrera is a faculty member at the renowned Parsons Institute / New School for Design. He is the author of “101 Things I Learned in Fashion School” which is a career guide, fashion design and self-help book that describes the different strategies of becoming successful in fashion design.

Estimate: $2,000 - $4,000

Price Realized: $1,250
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About this Lot
Description
16 fashion illustrations by Alfredo Cabrera, all with Geoffrey Beene labels
Frame Information
unframed
Provenance
Property From the Estate of Geoffrey Beene. Proceeds from this item to benefit the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering.
Condition
overall good condition, some with light wear
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The Estate of Geoffrey Beene

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Geoffrey Beene was an icon of the American fashion scene: as the New York Times put it, "fashion editors ran out of superlatives to describe Mr. Beene's high-wire act." Just a year after founding his firm in 1963, Beene was awarded the prestigious Coty American Fashion Critics' Award. This would be one of eight Coty awards given to the designer over the course of his life, more than any other designer has received to date. Over the next four decades, Beene built on his reputation as a one-of-a-kind designer, producing acclaimed lines of women's and men's clothing, accessories, and perfume.  In 1976, he became the first American designer to show a collection in Milan, Italy. 

Two years after Geoffrey Beene's death in 2004, the Geoffrey Beene Foundation was established in his honor. The mission of the Foundation is to support critical philanthropic causes, the most important being the establishment in 2006 of the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Since its creation in 2006, the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center has served as a nucleus for revolutionary new research approaches in preventing, diagnosing, and treating cancer. 


Proceeds from this item to benefit the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering.