Lopez, a successful 70s illustrator in New York, clearly faced racism.
But it’s unexplored in a film in thrall to fashionDocumentaries about fashion are having a moment, yet despite all the acute detail and 70s flavour that we get in this one, it is oddly incurious about its subject’s inner life, content merely to re-state the legend, and doesn’t reach out all that much to the non-fashionista community.Antonio Lopez was a brilliant Puerto Rican fashion illustrator whose drawing skill was admired and envied by David Hockney and Andy Warhol.
He was also, by all accounts, a beautiful and charismatic man, a party animal, a superb dancer, a wonderfully generous friend, and a keen-eyed professional who launched the modelling careers of Jessica Lange, Grace Jones and Jerry Hall.
He died of Aids in 1995.
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