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One of the foremost fashion illustrators of the 20th century, Kenneth Paul Block was an in-house artist for Fairchild Publications for more than forty years. As chief features artist with Women's Wear Daily, the garment industry trade paper, and its offshoot, W magazine, he was instrumental in transforming the once-dowdy WWD into the fashion-bible of the jet set during the 1960's and 1970's. Babe Paley, Gloria Vanderbilt, Jacqueline de Ribes, Amanda Burden, The Duchess of Windsor, and Gloria Guinness were among the influential society women who posed for him.