Tony Viramontes was a leading fashion illustrator who received editorial commissions from some of the key magazines of the 1980s, including Per Lui in Italy, Marie Claire in France and the American edition of Vogue. He also created distinctive work for British ‘style bible’ The Face, where he collaborated with stylists such as Ray Petri as an associate member of his Buffalo Crew. His hard-edged and direct style of illustration portrayed female models as muscular, overtly masculine characters, blurring boundaries of gender and sexuality, and providing a dynamic counterpoint to the fashion imagery of photographers such as Helmut Newton who explored similar issues in their work. He resisted the label of “illustrator” and considered his work to be more akin to that of an art director, often looking beyond traditional drawing materials to employ photography and collage in his images.