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 where the 1960s phrase Art Deco, is often used, but the founder of that movement in fashion has all but been forgotten, George Barbier, (1882–1932) was one of the great French illustrators of the early 20th century, he was born in Nantes, France on 16 October 1882,

  Barbier was 29 years old when he mounted his first exhibition in 1911 and was subsequently swept to the forefront of his profession with commissions to design theatre and ballet costumes, to illustrate books, and to produce haute couture fashion illustrations, he was one of the best-known artist-designers, especially famous as a creator of the brilliantly coloured fashion plates that had been launched by the couturier Paul Poiret a decade earlier, and of jewellery for Cartier, He also made his mark as a writer and reviewer for magazines, a designer for theatre and film, and a book illustrator,

 yet when he died in 1932, at the age of 50, his name rapidly sank into obscurity, contributing to his disappearance were his own reticence and a surprising sparseness of biographical information, born into a prosperous bourgeois family in the provincial town of Nantes, he lived a clearly very different lifestyle in Paris, where he frequented unmistakably, if not exclusively, homosexual circles - he was, for example, an intimate of the dandy and poet Robert de Montesquiou, who introduced him to Marcel Proust,

His burial in his home town was conducted with a discretion bordering on the furtive, and none of his descendants seem to have tried to keep his memory alive, which seems such a shame for a so talented artist.