Fab Gorjian

Born in Tehran, he moved to London as a child. One thing led to another and Fab became a painter for the great British fashion houses. The roaring post-war years, a flourishing period for these couturiers, were his greatest source of inspiration.

His artworks

A graduate of Art at Central Saint Martins and the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, Fab is looking to work for the leading menswear houses in London.

He has worked as an assistant designer to international opera designer Gary McCann. He was a patina artist for bespoke shoemakers John Lobb and George Cleverley in London. Six of his original paintings were used for pocket squares by Rampley & Co, which are still on sale today. Framed prints of his work were sold at Fortnum & Mason in 2019, in menswear category. His work was used in the Robb Report’s luxury Christmas gifts in 2021. A new piece of his work will soon be published in menswear magazine ‘Valet’.

Batman

Batman the Animated Series – it first aired when Fab was a child in the 1990’s, and its sophisticated use of the visual language of Art Déco imprinted a love of that era onto him. He drew the characters and architecture from that series thousands of times; He looks forward to sitting with my son and watching it all over again.

Tom Purvis

Fab visited the poster archives at the Victoria & Albert museum; he wanted to see real interwar lithographs, close-up. He had known about Purvis’ work for some time, but when Fab saw that Austin Reed poster in the flesh, he was moved in the same way he has been in front of some of the world’s best paintings and sculptures. He felt it would be a great challenge to make something as wonderful as that design.

Savile Row

In 2018 Fab began work as a patina artist for John Lobb and G.J Cleverley’s, two esteemed bespoke shoemakers in London’s St James. (Patina is the art of dyeing, agening, beautifying leather shoes and accessories). Later, he moved to work on shoes at a tailoring house on the famous street. At the time, Fab was planning on training as a bespoke shoemaker, but after some time on Savile Row, he fells in love with tailoring. Somewhat confused as to what to do next, he fell back on what he already knew: art and illustration. There is a great love of the interwar years in tailoring and shoemaking – that time is regarded as the “golden age”. Fab feel it was also the golden age of graphic art, and so when he proposed to reintroduce poster-making (using a technique he developed to echo the beauty of print), he found his first clients on Savile Row. It began with cloth-makers, Fox Brothers.