When I received an email saying that there was a project about men’s fashion illustration, for which they were counting on me, I could not believe it. Had somebody read my mind? This future book had been the one I always yearned for in my years as a fashion design student! And, until now, I had not found any that dealt with the subject.

Fashion illustration should be somewhat generic where women’s and men’s fashion is taken into consideration. The problem is that fashion today seems to be created exclusively for women—at least this is the feeling one gets after browsing through bookstores.

But the reality is different. The myth that men do not worry about how they dress only changing from their office suit to their casual wear is something that nowadays clashes with reality. The growing obsession regarding physique, which leads them to pack into fitness centers and use exfoliating creams, is also reflected when they are clothes shopping. The width of their garments follows the trends that the stylists praise in the magazines and they undoubtedly know three times as many fashion designers as their fathers.