2008 Fashion / Character Design

[davi]

Post any Fashion / Character Design references here!

Best ways to link:
Use VB code Uniform Freak
Example: Kind Girls (http://www.uniformfreak.com/)

[dark eagle]

I'm sure if we go to selfridges (http://www.selfridges.com) there are a lot of self centered models just waiting to be drawn.

[guggemmaneuver]

Here's a great reference for airline uniform designs throughout the years.

http://www.uniformfreak.com/

on an unrelated note, i find the "worst airlines i ever dealt with" page a particularly hillarious smear

[moroi]

I love this site, photos of people off the street in Finland. They have blurbs too of where the inspiration for their style came from.

Hel Looks (http://www.hel-looks.com/)

[Nibras]

The one and only.
www.characterdesigns.com

[Radio24]

This is a pretty fruitful fashion resource.
http://www.milanfashionshows.com/fall2008.htm
also new york times has a big fashion section

http://nymag.com/fashion/fashionshows/

[teho]

some japanese street styles. very interesting and unusual clothes, some details are hot.

http://www.japanesestreets.com/photos/
http://www.style-arena.jp/index_e.htm

http://www.japanesestreets.com/photos/data/media/184/71113-1155.jpghttp://www.japanesestreets.com/photos/data/media/184/71112-1064.jpghttp://www.style-arena.jp/harajuku/2008/07/week2/h003.jpg

[jhgoforth]

I love this site, photos of people off the street in Finland. They have blurbs too of where the inspiration for their style came from.

Hel Looks (http://www.hel-looks.com/)

I saw the 'quote' from the guy in the middle of your set...hiliarious: "My style is 50's teddy boy. I haven't changed my style since 1965. ..."

I bet he's fun at the bars.

great links, I'd been needing some resources as my fashion skills for characters is horrible (probably because i've no personal interest in fashion...cheaper and plain..is that a fashion? O.o''' )

[ShankAlenka]

Hi,

This is an amazing website i found and i'm sure anyone who will go there would love it.So i hope to share this information with you all. Try it on http://restyleme.com/.

It is really good website and what it does is after we upload our photo we get comments and ideas about our fashion styles and what the changes need to be made to make us much more stylish. The best thing is we get comments from other people all around the world.So have a look at it. I'm sure you will love it.

And feel free to reply me if you found it helpful..!

Thanks.
Shank

[Zyzzyvag]

Very chic modern fashions here. Updated almost daily.

Sartorialist (http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/)

[Mydrim]

I love this site. Mostly because of the faces, but you'll find plenty of clothes also http://www.supermodels.nl

http://www.supermodels.nl/ModelPics/brunatenorio/113.jpghttp://www.supermodels.nl/ModelPics/saraguarch/103.jpg
http://www.supermodels.nl/ModelPics/ettariles/23.jpghttp://www.supermodels.nl/ModelPics/georgiebadiel/109.jpg

[Asatira]

It calls itself the online home of Vogue, but I think it's a pretty good source for designs. http://www.style.com I found it when someone in the past linked to a past fashion show, so I'd suggest checking out the fashion show sections.

[guggemmaneuver]

i find that elle magazine's slideshows + video feeds are a little better than style.com's.

Great links everyone! cheers!

:D
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[HAJiME]

http://www.asos.com/

[marleau]

http://www.chictopia.com/ is another good site.

[Isric]

this is an excellent resource for keeping up with what all of the fashion pro's are doing. There are incredible amounts if photos of contemporary fashion design here:

http://men.style.com/

specifically here. if you browse by designer and look at their complete collections, that's where the money is. you can also look back through most designer's histories for at least 8 years or so:

http://men.style.com/fashion/collections/S2009MEN/runwayshows

The same goes for women's fashion:

http://www.style.com/

again, the really good stuff is here, sort by designer:

http://www.style.com/fashionshows/collections/S2009RTW/

[serhc]

men and womens clothing: facehunter (http://facehunter.blogspot.com/)
pretty good resource, street shots with lots of quirky people

women's clothing/portraiture: garance dore (http://www.garancedore.fr/)
ignore the bad fashion illustrations. there are lots of beautifully dressed women on the site, and lots of really interesting faces

men and women's clothing: the sartorialist (http://thesartorialist.blogspot.com/)
the one and only - he's got an eye for very classy dressers, as opposed to the quirky/hipster dressers of facehunter. AND his photos are great.

[wookiedabo]

http://stockholmstreetstyle.feber.se/ - more good fashion figures.

[Vigilandus]

Very useful thread!

www.otto.nl
www.esprit.com (Like this one, because you can get a bit larger than average size images)

Go look for online shops!

[guggemmaneuver]

if you see this on the newstand, definitely have a look. Hardly any advertisements, just page after page after page of full-figure, cutting-edge designs. sometimes the designs suffer a little from poor background color choice, but yeah, all in all, a tremendously valuable resource. some of it is quite humorous too.

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and yeah, it's pricey at nearly $40 usd after tax. but worth it... nice nice reference.

[Redmond]

^You can collect most of those pics off blogs, but it's a nice quick style bible.

I check hot or not on vicemag, it's NSFW and it's really immature, but you have to take it with a grain of salt.

[wookiedabo]

www.reiss.co.uk/lookbook

[grue]

Excellent medieval (sp?) outfits and accessories:

http://www.ravenswoodleather.com/

[Scriar]

heres a couple of good ones: (found through marc taros site)

http://fabricmag.com/

http://www.s-inc.com/news/heaven.php?catid=118

http://hautemacabre.com/

http://skingraftdesigns.com/news

http://www.venuswept.org/blog/

[guggemmaneuver]

*GASP! The new Gareth Pugh line (and also the unique presentation style thereof...) really got to me.

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(*crosses fingers... hopes that embedding isn't disabled for this video...)

[Hexokinase]

http://katanaz-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/#_popular

Just found this one. Pretty good IMO

[tobbA]

Paris Hilton swim suit. Actually looks pretty cool... :)

http://anythinghollywood.com/wp-content/2009/04/fp_2061336_paris_hilton_shows_off_some_interesting _swim_wear_.jpg

[Wu!]

Hmm. I'm not sure, if I'm still allowed to post here, since it's still the topic from a year ago, but anyways, it's still in the sticky, and i have something to show..

http://www.tribalartasia.com/
- is an amazing archive of native designs..
sorted in tribes, categories and collections.
Very useful for some designs.

Examples:
http://www.tribalartasia.com/Tribal%20Art%20Antique%20Jewelery/tribal-art-jewelery.jpghttp://www.tribalartasia.com/Tribal%20Art%20Asia%20Kapala%20Skulls/KAPALA%20FULL%20SKULL2%20SMALL.jpghttp://www.tribalartasia.com/Tribal%20Buddhist%20Masks+Kapalas/tribal-art-buddhist-mask.jpghttp://www.tribalartasia.com/Tribal%20Art%20Asia%20Naga%20Tribe%20Art/NAGA%20SMALL/NAGA%20SMALL%20BASKET%20SMALL2.jpghttp://www.tribalartasia.com/Tribal%20Art%20Asia%20Naga%20Tribe%20Art/NAGA%20SMALL/naganecklace3%20SMALL.jpghttp://www.tribalartasia.com/Tribal%20Art%20African%20Tribes/AFRICAN%20SMALL/AFRICAN%20MASK%205%20SMALL.jpg

[supercheetoz]

www.lookbook.nu has a great selection of fashion looks from different countries and you can choose what kind of looks you want specifically. (:

[Pixeltuner]

http://community.livejournal.com/foto_decadent

nice and huge collection of avantgarde fashion photography.

[badda]

hey guys. this site has an abundant collection of photos/scans of almost any supermodel/singer/actor you can think of as well as a great collection of scanned magazine fashion ads (check out the Versace ones)

http://usemycomputer.com/indeximages/

[Elle m.]

Hey guys, if you ever need some professional inspiration you can always count on fashion editorials from the most rad magazines out there, I usually purchase little none at all because they're just soooo expensive in my country , BUT you can always count on the biggest fashion forum in the world (or at least the most important)
http://forums.thefashionspot.com/
in the magazines sections there are thousand of scans ,and trust me, you can find anything from steampunk-related (there's a thread there somewhere) to like the craziest outfits out there, and the most futuristic and avant-garde ...everything is up to date and if you want to become a member, just PM me and I'll send you an invitation :)
I also recommend the street style threads there and the men's ones :)
have fun searching through their data base and hope that helps :yayca:
PS: @lingeries name haha you're not the only one out there trust me I usually end up shopping if depressed and I too have a black and white (and grey) wardrobe...everytime I wear colors I feel like a rainbow ..but I'm trying to change that :)
PSS: that's the most amazing compliment ever :D

[RocketBoots]

http://ffffound.com has a lot of fashion photography mixed in with lots of other cool stuff. You can't really search it, you just have to sift through the stream of pics.

[Nibras]

http://shiggersonstreet.blogspot.com/

It's pretty much a blog about one guy (I think I don't really follow it, just found the link and thought people might like it) and his friends with different outfits and they link their inspirations etc.
I think the style is kind of goth (No idea I don't really know much about goth/punk sort of things)

Hope someone finds it helpful because there's some pretty neat costumes for your characters in there :P

[Angel Intheuk]

http://www.kropserkel.com/nazarmour.htm <----- One stop shop for all your middle earth armour inspirational needs :)

[Black Spot]

Old fashion http://yeoldefashion.tumblr.com/. The archive (http://yeoldefashion.tumblr.com/archive/) is wonderful.