Before Vine, before the Twitter feed, before online even, fashion illustration reigned supreme. Above photography, hand realised and coloured images depicted couture without the tangiability of photography's life mirror, heightening drama and glamour to create the ultimate style depiction.

How does illustration fit into the fashion zeitgeist today? It has to be quick and expressive, like scratching a note. Which Grace Coddington does, known for the volumes of sketchbooks she gets through during fashion month.

Exclusively for Dazed Digital, art director and photographer Matthew Attard Navarro, who works between Malta and London (and is currently setting up Malta's first fashion education centre, Platinum Institute), puts pen to paper...

Follow Matthew on Twitter and visit his site Werk Designs