Thank you for looking! This auction is to raise funds for a beautiful woman in need of assistance… please read.
Hello folks, if you are interested in vintage jewelry, Handbags, Belts, clothing of all kinds, or original fashion illustration art, we are in the process of listing a very large collection from a very special woman. Please consider gifting yourself and others from Jan’s Collection (short bio bellow).
We are raising funds for urgent elderly medical expenses and we would be most happy to see you with a piece of beautiful vintage fashion from her collection. You might also be interested in helping a woman, while getting a well deserved tangible for yourself in return. If you love fashion, you will quickly see that there is something for everyone in this collection. Fashion is true art (if not the oldest and most original of all art forms) and it is truly Universal with its intent to convey Love and Desire of oneself and others.
Short Bio:
Jan Konig graduated from Parsons and started her career as a fashion illustrator in the 1960’s, drawing the cover art for Simplicity sewing patterns. She would then also illustrate the covers for the McCall’s Butterick & Vogue sewing patterns as well
As she continued working full time and taking additional classes at FIT and Pratt, her extraordinary talents were widely recognized. This afforded her the freedom to contract with ad agencies which provided fashion illustrations for the likes of Saks Fifth Avenue, Lord and Taylor, Macy’s, Gimbel’s and many other noteworthy entities.
Her fashion illustrations were regularly used in the full page and half page ads in the New York Daily News, New York Times and other broadly circulated publications. Her illustrations were also used in countless smaller ads such as fliers and mailers from smaller business entities.
As a true ‘creative’, immersing herself with a passion since early-on, she would also devote time designing and creating her own clothing, accessories and jewelry as well. This talent would prove invaluable by the late seventies when photographs started replacing line art in fashion illustrations and print media ads.
She would continue to design and fabricate her own jewelry and accessories and her skills were employed by Edgar Berebi Altier, and others.
By the late 80’s early 90’s (and with early onset of arthritis getting more severe) Jan would turn to more visual art and graphic design by computer, creating stunning and brilliant images which would ultimately never be used commercially due to her medical conditions (these prints will be offered here on eBay as well).
Background:
The environment that Jan drew from (no pun intended) in her early career was in fact the very life she was living and sharing with the creative scene in Greenwich Village during the 60's and 70’s.
Jan was an exceptional singer as well and at times would accompany her brother (google imdb - Tex Konig, an established folk singer) as well as others ‘on the scene’ at gatherings and clubs.
Jan was right there among the most creative members of the Arts and Folk scene in NYC… Visual artists and Musicians were everywhere!
Jan was sharing her vision, through Illustration, of how she and other women felt about themselves as they shed the restraints of previous generations.
Please check the illustration art (when it is listed) and remind yourself that those are the images that where seen daily by millions and were a reinforcement to the confidence of women!
Showing what a woman would look like in the clothes and jewelry she illustrated - the poses struck, the expressions and gestures of the female form and its power - is a true art form that came from ‘within’!
Be it while reading the News Paper oneself, passing by the News Stand or even just standing besides someone reading on the train or bus, it is reasonable to say that millions were subtly swept into their own imagination (even if just for a moment) of how they themselves would feel in such a dress, piece of jewelry, handbag, etc. and the true power they have!
Jan, and other hard working women like her, presented the best within us, while enduring the difficult work conditions for single women and the low pay of the times. These are beautiful minds that, in part, shaped culture and society by presenting how women would see themselves in one design or another (from the sweet innocence poses of the early 60's, to the bellbottoms and sassy poses of the late 60's-early 70's to the piercing sophistication of 80's vogue…
Jan never married or had children and she gave all of herself to this love of fashion which we all share. That it has been saved all these decades speaks volumes to her love of fashion.
Everything is about fashion! Color, Shapes, Designs, Textures, Patterns… using it all to adorn oneself and reflect ones inner beauty and thoughts is what ‘Living’ and ‘Feeling’ is all about!
Thank you Very Much!