Through his long career at Vanity Fair, The New Yorker and other publications, the editor-artist-stylist-art director helped shape the course of fashion.
“The Jean Cocteau of the fashion world.” That’s how the New Yorker editor Tina Brown described Michael Roberts, the British illustrator-writer-stylist-photographer-art director, when he joined the magazine in the mid-1990s as its fashion editor.
Mr. Roberts, who died on Monday at 75, after a brain aneurysm, in Taormina, Sicily, where he lived, worked for the magazine for more than a decade. He oversaw the style coverage and produced 23 witty, satirical covers, most in collage and gently poking fun at the fashion community.
“It gave me immense joy to see
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