Ruben Toledo | |
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Born | 1961 (age 62–63) |
Nationality | Cuban-American |
Spouse |
Ruben Toledo (born 1961, Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban-American artist based in New York City. [1]
Toledo and his wife Isabel met in high school in West New York, New Jersey. [2]
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:
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]
Ruben and Isabel Toledo were the recipient of the 2005 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for their work in fashion. [4]