Marguerite Sauvage

Marguerite Sauvage is a French illustrator with a gorgeous fashion-y style.

She also counts Rumiko Takahashi as one of her main influences! She says it was Takahashi's "Lum" which inspired her to start drawing and which influenced her style of coloring in the shoulders and knees of her characters!

I'm not sure how old Ms Sauvage is but when I lived in France in 1990, children's television was PACKED with Rumiko Takahashi, along with lots of other anime such as Dragonball and Fist of the North Star. That's where I discovered Takahashi's "Maison Ikkoku" aka "Juliette Je t'aime" and "Lum/Urusei Yatsura" aka "Lamu". It was a little before Ranma so they hadn't started showing that by the time I moved back in 1991.

One thing I remember was that there was some controversy over the violent nature of anime like Fist of the North Star, but that it was so devastatingly popular they had to keep showing it or they would've faced mobs of angry kids storming the studios!

(hat tip to the always excellent illustration blog Drawn!)