The ultimate list of online research resources VOL 2
From the nichest fashion archive to the key fashion suppliers this list has you covered (again!)
By TOBY RAMSKILL
The pandemic has fundamentally changed how fashion students are expected to work. Back in April we compiled the ultimate list of online resources to suit our new experience, now, while we exist within this state of limbo between one lockdown and the constant possibility of another, we’ve updated that list. From haberdasheries to the Instagram account compiling ‘fashion for bank robbers’, the new list combines online sites of inspiration with London’s suppliers providing the resources you need to make clothes from conception to completion.
MUSEUMS, EXHIBITIONS & ARCHIVES
Hackers: Costumes from the Motion Picture @ The Horse Hospital
Rukus! The UK’s Black Queer Archive housed within the London Metropolitan Archives
National Art Library - housed within the V&A
Standing Tall: The curious history of men in heels
Larry Racioppo’s Halloween Photographs
Images of Film and Fashion through the ages
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Online Collection
The Curious History of Men in Heels
CSM Museum and Study Collection
Documentation of Japan’s Urahara Streetwear Movement
Nick Cave sound suit
Scans from old runway magazines
Scan of Kapital ’06 Blue Bear Lookbook
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Online Collections
Europeana.eu ’s Lithuanian Opera Costume Archive
Masaki Matsushima Spring/Summer 1998 lookbook, photographed by Jean-Francois Lepage
i-D Sharp issue
Documentation of Japan’s Urahara Streetwear Movement
A Growing Virtual Fashion Archive
Kyoto Costume Institute Online Archive
SHOWstudio's Guy Bourdin ‘Compulsive Viewing’ films
@adarchives
A collection of painting details
Contemporary mask and headpieces archive
Documenting Fashion - Rebecca Arnold’s Instagram
@painting_on_film
Fashion Supplies in London
- Woolcrest Textiles - Hackney
- Toni Textiles - Shepherd’s Bush
- MacCulloch & Wallis - Soho
- Cloth House - Camden
- Misan (West) - Shepherd’s Bush
- Misan Fabric - Soho
- Bhopal Textiles - Brick Lane
- Goldbrick Fabrics - Shepherd’s Bush
- Handweavers Studio and Gallery - Holloway
- Unique Fabrics - Shepherd’s Bush
- Knit Works London - Bethnal Green
- London Trimmings Wholesale - Whitechapel and Tottenham
- Barnett Lawson - Marylebone
- DM Buttons & Buttonholes - Soho
- V V Rouleaux - Marylebone
- London Bead Co. - Kentish Town
- Alec Trianti (Sculpting Tools) - Fitzrovia
- Rosamanda Pleaters - Tottenham
- LaserCut Works - Bermondsey
- Pentonville Foam and Rubber Products - Islington
Words: TOBY RAMSKILL
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