Suzy Menkes in the International Herald Tribune:

An unsung fashion hero has finally been recognized as Michael Roberts, illustrator, editor, style director and maverick takes his book on tour. On Tuesday, Burberry will fete the British-born Roberts, whose trajectory from art school in High Wycombe in 1968 to the swinging London world of Carnaby Street and Kings Road, to fashion editor of The Sunday Times and today's role at the New Yorker, was as arrow-straight as the graphic lines in his illustrated book.

The Snippy World of New Yorker Fashion Artist Michael Roberts, published by Steid/Edition 7L, tells the story in its title. It is both an intricate assemblage of collages, done, says Roberts "mostly in hotel rooms;" and a wry and sometimes scissor-sharp take on the world of style. You would have to look to Cecil Beaton's very different decorative sketches to find someone with such a beady eye for what makes style. Even the skyscrapers of New York take on a dizzy geometric glamour, as Roberts fixes each image in the context of its time.
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At fashion's epicenter, yet always a lone observer, Roberts has a unique insight into the fashionable world, which he reduces, like Cocteau, to a few sparing lines. New York features large, although he is ambivalent about its attractions.

"I feel most attracted and repelled about New York," he says. "There is no strong guiding aesthetic. Everything is for the moment."