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created on: 25/11/2020
by: bob (9218)
 
 

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Michael Roberts (born in 1947 in Aylesbury, UK - died 3 April 2023, Sicily, Italy (aged 75)) was a Fashion Photographer.

He was the fashion and style director of Vanity Fair magazine. He worked as fashion director for The New Yorker and The Sunday Times, style director and art director for Tatler, design director of British Vogue, Paris editor of Vanity Fair, and editor of Boulevard magazine.

Roberts also worked as a fashion photographer and illustrator, contributing images to publications including Vanity Fair; L'Uomo Vogue; British, Italian, French, American, Chinese, Brazilian, and Japanese Vogue; The Sunday Times; and The Independent on Sunday. He published four books of his illustrations.

Roberts was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to fashion

His mother came from St. Lucia island in the West Indies. He studied graphic and fashion design at High Wycombe College of Art, in England. His original intention was to become an art director a J. Walter Thompson, but instead he became a freelance fashion illustrator, working for publications including the Sunday Times, Nova, Vingt Ans and British Vogue.

In 1972, he joined the Sunday Times as fashion editor and in 1981 became fashion editor of Tatler magazine. In 1983 he moved to Vanity Fair in New York, but returned to Britain the following year to Tatler as Fashion Director. In 1986, he was also appointed Design Director of British Vogue.

As a follow-up to his 2007 book Shot in Sicily—a photographic document of the Italian island which he first visited in 1987, and where he settled permanently in 2019—he released his final book Island of Eternal Beauties last year as a love letter to a place that became his home.

He was the director of the 2017 documentary "Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards".
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