In 1894, his first art job was with the Philadelphia Times where he earned $12 a week drawing fashion illustrations.
At the age of 18, Parker arrived in Manhattan to study fashion illustration.
"Barbie was designed to be a 3-D model of a fashion illustration," she said.
Sometimes her style mimicked fashion illustration to comment on society's depiction of women.
That's the way I feel fashion illustration is going.
She modeled for his fashion illustrations, sometimes dressed in vibrant color clothing with her long dark brown black hair.
The choreography made the dancers seem a set of glossy fashion illustrations come to life.
A self-taught designer, he admitted to have only learned about fashion illustration online.
More recently, there has been a decline of fashion illustration due to increases in technology.
His professional career has carried him from traditional fashion illustration to high-end photo retouching.
