Before he was a pop artist, he was a fashion illustrator

His worksheets from the 1950s are dotted with whimsical notes.
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New fashion images emerging in stores and magazines are clearly echoes of the past. Looking back apparently gives us some consolation in a crazy world
So it's not surprising to see a paperback book paying homage to the late artist Andy Warhol. It focuses not on the '60s, when he emerged as the master of pop art. Rather, Andy Warhol Fashion (Chronicle books, $16.95) showcases his earlier work in the 1950s, when he was a fashion illustrator for magazines and advertisers.
His drawings, some of which appear to be worksheets, are interspersed with whimsical notes and observations. Shoes have informal captions such as "Uncle Sam wants shoe," or "When I'm calling shoe," written apparently for his own entertainment.
The sketches are innocent and charming: Garlands of flowers and birds highlight a red lipstick or bright gloves. The thoughts are quirky: He wrote, "Everything in your closet should have an expiration date on it, the way milk and bread and magazines and newspapers do."
Background
Warhol was born to Slovak immigrants in 1928 and grew up in a working-class environment. He studied art at the Carnegie Institute. In the book's foreword, Simon Doonan, display director at Barney's in New York, calls him a "thinker, a curious and intelligent artist whose original and sophisticated gaze surveyed the world through a prism of irony and camp."