/fa/ - Fashion

You can't just draw from one current source for inspiration and reference, you have to draw from everywhere and dig deeper than this season. That's exactly what my reference library offers. It' also has a lot more depth and breadth to it than maybe another persons because I have so many interests outside fashion. When I talked about trend forecasters and stylists paying for something like this I'm not joking, they're always looking for non-fashion stuff to mine for inspiration and reference, I have tons of that stuff and not just the typical modern art and architecture nonsense (although I do have a lot of it) but it's all categorized and easy to sift through.

Digital imagery is severely undervalued, go read some designer interviews they all talk about their libraries. Karl Lagerfeld has one that's so large it takes multiple pay rolled assistants to manage it. That's what designers did before jpegs they collected books, giving away my reference library would be like Karl giving away scans of everything in his library, or fuck even an index of the titles he has would be seriously valuable to every designer on the planet.