The Collector Series: Steven Mark Klein
15.10.2020 / Steven Mark Klein is a cultural theorist based in New York City. He has built an extensive archive of fashion printed matter over the past 30 years, that's now been donated as the seed collection of the International Library of Fashion Research.
International Library of Fashion Research’s inaugural ‘The Collector Series’ is a questionnaire with the people and premises our library is founded upon; the collectors. With the acceleration of fast fashion and disposable mentalities, fashion printed matter has oftentimes been produced, published and presented, then trashed, thrown away or simply forgotten about. This ongoing series tells the stories of people who have guarded this material over the course of the years and grown it into incredible, personal fashion collections, altogether representing a wider perspective on the past, present and future of fashion publishing.
