Georges Alexandre Adrien Lepape, born June 26, 1887 in the 8th arrondissement of Paris and died February 15, 1971 in Bonneval (Eure-et-Loir), is a French fashion designer, poster designer, engraver and illustrator particularly representative of the 1930s. Student at the Humbert Academy, he exhibited in 1910 at the Salon d'automne, where he met the fashion designer Paul Poiret with whom he became friends. He illustrates for him in 1911 what is considered his masterpiece, The Things of Paul Poiret seen by Georges Lepape, printed by Maquet. He participates, from the first issues, in the Gazette du bon ton, to which he contributes splendid stained planks. He then collaborated with major fashion journals of the time: Harper's Bazaar, Vanity Fair, Femina, Vogue and Les Feuillets d'art. Precursor of the clear line, he is influenced by orientalism, Persian miniatures and Russian ballets. In 1917, he made puppets according to models of Paul Poiret. In 1920, he participated in the exhibition The Twentieth Century Fashion seen by the painters at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris. In 1926, he was invited to New York by Condé Nast, publisher of Vogue United States. He stays there for six months. The covers he runs for this review are of high quality. Like many artists of this innovative era, he carries on his activity with audacity and elegance in the most varied fields: posters, theater programs, fabrics, fans, advertising catalogs especially for Wallace & Draeger2. In 1923, he directed sets including L'Oiseau bleu, symbolic fairy of Maurice Maeterlinck, and theater costumes. After the war, he worked a lot for advertising and publishing. He illustrated thirty books: Paul Géraldy, Sacha Guitry, Alfred de Musset, Plato. He was an assiduous guest of Sainte-Maxime, in the Var, in his villa "Les Oursins" built on the rocks. Georges Lepape died February 15, 1971 in Bonneval (Eure-et-Loir)