Drawing out the soul of fashion with Kenneth Paul Block and MFA

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is hosting a small but elegant exhibit of Kenneth Paul Block's fashion illustrations. The collection of hand-drawn works from the man whose career helped define fashion at Women's Wear Daily and W Magazine is as much a chronicle of what fashion was, as it is a reflection of societal aspirations in American's post World War II era. In a time when photography captured the art of fashion, Kenneth Paul Block opted instead to use pencils and

The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston is hosting a small but elegant exhibit of Kenneth Paul Block's fashion illustrations. The collection of hand-drawn works from the man whose career helped define fashion at Women's Wear Daily and W Magazine is as much a chronicle of what fashion was, as it is a reflection of societal aspirations in American's post World War II era. In a time when photography captured the art of fashion, Kenneth Paul Block opted instead to use pencils and paint to interpret its so…