The best Ways to access fashion archives
- Jenavee Legaspi
- Apr 9, 2020
- 2 min read
With all this time on your hands, there can be an overwhelming pressure to learn new things and social media by all means, does not help. It seems like every day someone new is publishing an online shop, directing creative photos shoots in their home and all you've accomplished is finishing two seasons of a show and a pint of dairy-free ice cream. If starting free online courses isn't your thing or you're too preoccupied with actual classes from your university, you're probably not too open to adding to your load. However if you're willing to learn at your own pace, the internet has amazing assets that can aid you in your educational journey.
The Virtual Fashion Archive is (as stated on the website) "a new online space bringing culturally significant fashion garments beyond the constraints of their physical form, and into the added dimensions of motion, interaction, and participation"
The site initially allows you to interact with and view detailed renderings of archived garments housed in museums.
The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan museum of art includes a vast selection of its artworks, clothing items, and furniture to explore and discover
If you're more of a watch and learn type person, Youtube has a great collection of runway shows. My favorite to visit is the "Fashion Channel" account. They have footage of shows beginning from the 1980's to today is is frequently updated.
Fashion Channel brings you the best videos and the most exclusive moments of the international runway since 1982 until now, the most representative fashion weeks of the world. Backstage secrets, insights on hair and make-up, curiosities from the fashion world, celebrities, photoshoots, clips of designers and models, red carpets and gossip, parties, the best fashion shows of all the top designers.
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