David Downton is one of the world’s leading fashion artists, whose work has appeared in Vogue, Harper’s Bazaar, The New York Times and Vanity Fair; his commercial clients include Chanel, Dior, Tiffany & Co, among many others. For the last decade he has served as the first-ever fashion artist in residence at Claridge’s hotel in London, where he has been commissioned to draw the hotel’s most illustrious guests from the world of style and fashion, yielding his most recent book, Portraits of the World’s Most Stylish Women.