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The Pen, Mightier Than the Camera

For a rarefied brand of music lover -- the kind, for example, given life in "High Fidelity" -- there is nothing cooler in the age of the MP3 than to plunk down $8,000 for a turntable and stack shelves with that relic vinyl. In some sense, an equivalent movement is happening in fashion. In the high moment of digital photography, fashion illustration, rendered largely with pen, ink and paper, appears to be having a small renaissance.

Illustration has been the basis for recent advertising campaigns for Stila cosmetics. Pictures made by hand as opposed to a camera were the subject of a 12-page men's fashion story in November's Details. (The pictures came courtesy of Ricardo Sorrenti, who painted them from images taken by his son, Mario Sorrenti, a fashion photographer.) Fashion illustration has also increasingly shown up in the pages of Flaunt magazine, and it is paid homage in a new book by Laird Borrelli, Stylishly Drawn (Harry N. Abrams, $39.95), which features the work of people like AMY DAVIS and Mats Gustafson, much of it previously unpublished.

"Photography is in a very transitional state," said Long Nguyen, one of Flaunt's founders, explaining the trend. "There's art photography and photography to photograph clothes, and there's been too much merging." Mr. Nguyen's own magazine has been responsible for much of the merging. "Illustration frees the reader from having to decide if something is art or isn't," he said.