Elaine Leon Fashion Illustrator Graphic Designer

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Notice Something? I Love it!

Back in 2007 my web site at Elaine Biss was all black with a cute little animation of my fashion girl here. Though my web site has changed quite a bit, I still print collateral with her in it.  There is just something very girly sweet about her. I always thought it was the messy stuff around her. Instead it was this…The fact is that Michelle Obama is the next iconic lady of this century, to me anyway. Her style is very classy and it doesn`t date her pictures to any era. Her sweet  ...

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Rescuing a Memory- 18 pictures of Retro Paris

I have bought several picture lots where families and individuals who visited Paris around 1890`s to the 1950`s. Really, the Paris depicted here cannot be explained with words. Listen to this sweet French song while you take a look at the pictures. Yann Tiersen – La redecouverte Found at bee mp3 search engine 1920`s 1940`s Late 20`s Early 1930`s 1890

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A Moment in Time

I buy a lot of ephemera, specially old pictures. My hobby, at one point was a 300 dollar a week expenditure so I have amounted quite a collection. Mostly my pictures are from the 20`s to the 50`s Europe. I even have a pictures of the aftermath of World War 2, of what looks to me as a divisor wall in Germany, a damaged church and a line of people waiting to get food. These are all moments in time. Someone was impressed enough, loved enough, was sadden enough, to burn the image in front of  ...

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