About
Lamont O’Neal

Lamont O’Neal was born in Brooklyn, New York. He began drawing as a child, inspired by comic books and fashion magazines. After attending the High School of Art & Design, he won a scholarship to Parsons School of Design. At Parsons he studied both fashion design and fashion illustration, and both those disciplines continue to influence his style. In his thirty-year-plus career, O’Neal has been published in nearly every aspect of the fashion world, including the magazines Cosmopolitan, New York, GQ, Playboy, and Essence. His list of fashion designer clients includes Oscar de la Renta, David Chu (Nautica), American Eagle and Polo Ralph Lauren. He also frequently contributed covers for Vogue Butterick. His credits include portraiture, children’s books and illustrations for Revlon, Random House, Estee Lauder, William Morrow Publishing, Nordstrom, Simon and Schuster, J. Walter Thompson, Lord & Taylor, Maybelline, and Vogue Knitting.

O’Neal’s work has been included in the Society of Illustrators in New York. He lives and draws in Yardley, Pennsylvania. 

Lamont was interviewed by Etta Shon of fashion-focused group Artifelle, for his views on fashion illustration as an evolving industry through the decades. See the transcribed interview on Artifelle, or watch the video on YouTube.