Brooklyn-based knitwear designer Lindsay Degan surrounded by fabric
Photographer and writer Todd Selby has captured 14 fashion designers in their workspaces for his third and newest book The Fashionable Selby.
The designers come from all over the world and include well-known names like Isabel Marant, Dries van Noten and Iris van Herpen, as well as lesser-known creatives who work behind-the-scenes for big companies.
Selby spent the past three years interviewing them and told Fast Company, “With fashion, people often associate it with marketing, and they forget the other side of it, which is the creators. Fashion is filled with so many passionate people that have a really unique vision and their own take on creativity.”
His photographs offer a fascinating peek into the work environments and working style of each designer, as well as clues as to what gets their creative juices flowing. Most of the spaces have colorful mood boards and messy tabletops overflowing with notebooks, sketches and fabrics. Some like Belgian designer Dries van Noten and Japanese headpiece artist Katsuya Kamo have neat and well-organized studios, while others like Diesel’s artistic director Nicola Formichetti and jewelry designer Andrew Logan have walls lined with color-coded swatches and jars of trinkets respectively.
The book also features handwritten questionnaires filled in by the designers alongside photographs, giving it a scrapbook feel.
Check out some photos below and head over here to purchase it.
Diesel’s artistic director Nicola Formichetti’s studio with color-coded swatches lining the walls
Jewelry designer Andrew Logan’s wall full of jars of trinkets
Brooklyn artisan Audrey Louise Reynolds who works with organic dyes at the lake, floral shop or in her backyard
Comme des Garcon’s scent designer Christian Astuguevieille with his vials of perfumes
Japanese headpiece artist Katsuya Kamo in his neat studio
The luxurious French boudoir of the Virginia Bates London vintage store which has since closed
British designer Fred Butler’s studio filled with bright and colorful sculptures
Iris van Herpen’s mood board containing feathers and skeletal structures
Belgian designer Dries van Noten works in a tidy and well-organized studio
[via Fast Company, images by Todd Selby]