How does one become more knowledgable about fashion / designers etc?

[Anonymous No.10165615]

Browsing /fa/ and occasionally sufu has only really introduced me to different styles, provided me with inspo and kind of taught me about the fit / silhouette of clothes and how it is important, but how do I actually learn more about the fashion industry, designers and their collections / history all that stuff, how different clothing styles / colours / silhouettes work for different people. etc etc etc???

I really just want to become more knowledgable because it is something I've become a lot more interested in ever since I started browsing here and other places and I want to become a part of the community more and possibly work in the industry at some point

and I just really enjoy / am interested in fashion

[PlsSudoku !d2CR0Z05Kw No.10165622]

>>10165615
>look up stores with a lot of designer brands
>read fashion magazines
>watch fashion shoes
>read the fucking sticky
>be a model

[Anonymous No.10165645]

Read, dude. Pick a designer you like and google them.

Certain forums (notably Stylezeitgeist) have amazing threads on particular designers. Some of these are active for years and showcase early collections up to present along with lots of info.

Style.com has many runway collections/shows archived if you want to check out a specific season.

Articles in fashion, design, and style magazines are another good place to start. Arena Homme +, Surface, i-D are some that jump to mind. Magazine articles are good because they're succinct by design and offer a perspective on a particular person, thing, or idea but generally reference broader themes and other media, which you can then follow up on.

Important magazines also publish retrospectives of important designers' careers allowing you to follow the progression of the designer from early to current.

Some designers like Raf Simons and Rick Owens have released books. They're often expensive coffee table numbers, but worth a look if you're particularly into a certain label/designer.

[~ !A4jsQTgi.Q No.10165658]

notable reading:
Fashion Designer's Resource Book
What is Fashion Design?
Japan Fashion Now
ReFUSING FASHION : Rei Kawakubo
Comme Des Garcons
The Language of Clothes
Skin + Bones : Parallel Practices in Fashion and Architecture
100 Dresses: The Costume Institute - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Haute Couture : The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Culture to Catwalk : How World Cultures Influence fashion
Japanese Fashion Designers : The Work and Influence of Issey Miyake, Yohji Yamamoto, and Rei Kawakubo
Street Style
Rebel Youth
Bespoke : The Men's Style of Savile Row
Fashion Futures
Rick Owens
Yohji Yamamoto (V&A)
Harris Tweed : From Land to Street
The Men's Fashion Reader
The Golden Age of Couture
(un)Fashion
Extreme Beauty : The Body Transformed

[~ !A4jsQTgi.Q No.10165662]

>>10165658

>Deconstructionism in Fashion, Clothes and Self Perception

http://fashionartdaily.blogspot.ca/2009/09/deconstruction-part-object.html#.Uu7taT1dUmh

http://www.academia.edu/271375/fashion_and_deconstruction

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/03/science/clothes-and-self-perception.html?smid=FB-nytimes&WT.mc_id=SC-E-FB-SM-LIN-MGS-040412-NYT-NA&WT.mc_ev=click&_r=3&&gwh=78931BCC0EB224A8CC97C37FBD5A62A1&gwt=pay

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>>10165662

>CDG / Rei Kawakubo

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/fashion/05iht-fcomme05.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/fashion/09iht-fcomme.html?pagewanted=all

http://www.dazeddigital.com/fashion/article/1340/1/comme-des-garcons-printed-matter

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/05/fashion/05iht-rrei05.html?pagewanted=all

http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/07/comme-des-garcons-magic-act/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=1

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9B04E5DF1E39F937A15751C0A96E9C8B63

http://runway.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/here-in-tokyo/?gwh=24474F466B2FA0B1EAF8DD22E00EE346&gwt=pay

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/fashion/rei-kawakubo-of-comme-des-garcons-veiled-like-mona-lisa.html?gwh=7118D3EA0ECB37F960F7671D18920973&gwt=pay

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/fashion/08iht-rvk.html?gwh=8B2AE38183A1576FB391F425D4338FE7&gwt=pay

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424053111903918104576500263503794504

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>>10165668

>Yohji Yamamoto

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/09/fashion/09REVIEW.html?_r=0

http://www.nytimes.com/1983/10/23/style/yohji-yamamoto-defines-his-fashion-fashion-philosophy.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/magazine/13STYLE.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/16/fashion/16fash.html?_r=0

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>>10165674

>Helmut Lang

"After Helmut"

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/fashion/02HELMUT.html......

"Helmut Lang, 2004"

interviewed by peter halley

http://www.indexmagazine.com/interviews/helmut_lang.shtml

"Helmut Lang on the threat of an outside force"

http://www.anothermag.com/.../Helmut_Lang_on_The_Threat......

"(HELMUT LANG) AnOther Magazine, Issue 19, written by Susannah Frankel"

http://notacomplexperson.tumblr.com/post/1425051577

[Anonymous No.10165720]

>>10165622
>Watch fashion shoes
kek

[Anonymous No.10165738]

READ TGE FUCKING STICKY


I always wanted to do that. Thanks op

[Anonymous No.10165792]

>>10165658
Supplementary to this there are a lot of good philosophy and social science writers (both conetmporayr and old) who have considered fashion and clothing (as seperate topics and as communicative).
It's important to understand that distinction (clothing -- fashion)

To assimilate a short list...
Roland Barthes
Pierre Bourdieu
Crane Diana
Dorinee K. Konodo
Judith Butler

Surface tension
The Japanese Revolution in Paris
Crafting Selves

If you don't know where to start just start from what sounds cool.

[Anonymous No.10166016]

Wow ty guys wasn't expecting a response like this

Guess I better start reading

[Anonymous No.10166056]

Based trip
Ty

[Anonymous No.10167496]

>>10165674
I fucking love yohji

[PlsSuduki !d2CR0Z05Kw No.10167987]

>>10165720
yes watching fashion shoes helped me become the ultimate fashion guru