Carl ERICKSON, better known as Eric, is an American fashion illustrator, also advertising artist, having mainly worked for the American and French edition of the fashion magazine Vogue and Coty cosmetics. Carl Oscar August ERICKSON was born in Joliet (Illinois, USA) in 1891, into a family of Swedish origin. He studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago where his classmates began to call him ERIC. Carl Oscar August begins to sign his work with this pseudonym. Carl ERICKSON arrived in New York in 1914 and began a career as an advertising illustrator in the publication Dry Goods Economistnote. Independent, he occasionally sold, from 1916, fashion illustrations to American Vogue. In 1920, he married the illustrator Lee CREELMAN. The couple leaves New York to try their luck in Paris. The couple who will have a daughter, settle in Senlis. ERICKSON begins working for the French edition of Vogue magazine. Along with fashion illustration, ERICKSON was also an accomplished portrait artist. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Queen Elizabeth II, Frank Sinatra, and Gertrude Stein are a few of the public figures who sat for him. In the 1930s, Carl ERICKSON's style evolved. His drawings are less static, he turns more to scenes of daily life or social life. Having become famous, he is known above all as an illustrator of "reportage" more than a model. ERICKSON is regularly found drawing on racetracks, during parades, shows, cocktails... which corresponds to the evolution of Vogue, leaving the role of a magazine presented as a static album towards a more informative trend. exterior-oriented iconography. Carl ERICKSON becomes the regular collaborator of the 3 editions of Vogue (USA, France and British). At 48, at the start of World War II, the family returned to New York. They remained there until the end of the war. In the 1950s, faithful to Éditions Condé Nast, Carl ERICKSON still worked for the three international editions of Vogue but was published more irregularly, although he was highlighted in several press articles and was considered an "illustrator Vogue star. Known as a heavy drinker for many years, he fell into alcoholism and fell ill. He draws less and eventually died in 1958. In his obituary, published in Vogue, it is written: "Parisian Couture could not dream of being better served than by Eric's design", "he left his mark not only in the history of Vogue, but also on his time” concludes the fashion magazine. The following year the Brooklyn Museum dedicated a retrospective to him, which was followed in 1964 at the Parsons School of Design in New York.