Ruben Toledo Explained
| Ruben Toledo |
| Nationality: | Cuban-American |
| Birth Place: | Havana, Cuba |
Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New York City.[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. He 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:
- Book: Style Dictionary . 0789203480 . Abbeville Press . 1997.
- Book: Fashionation . 3865213014 . 2009 . Edition 7L .
Exhibitions
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 links
Notes and References
- Web site: Steidl: Ruben Toledo. October 18, 2012.
- News: Grinberg. Emanuella. Weinberger. Hannah. July 6, 2012. Partners by design: Isabel and Ruben Toledo. October 19, 2012.
- Web site: Exhibition: Toledo/Toledo: A marriage of Art and Fashion. Contemporary Fashion Archive. October 18, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20100715002639/http://www.contemporaryfashion.net/index.php/none/none/253/uk/exhibition.html. July 15, 2010.
- News: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Announces Winners of the Sixth Annual National Design Awards. October 20, 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130614235053/http://www.cooperhewitt.org/press/2012/08/10/cooper-hewitt-national-design-museum-announces-winners-sixth-annual-national-design. June 14, 2013.
