International Library of Fashion Research

In December 2022, Elise By Olsen opened the International Library of Fashion Research, a fashion library with a collection that now contains more than 10,000 books, magazines, catalogs, lookbooks, and other printed materials.

I have been working with ILFR since June 2022. There, I have documented everything from the renovation, the opening, seminars, and exhibitions. My photos have been used by ILFR and various magazines, both digitally and physically, around the world. Vogue, Forbes, i-D, and Financial Times are some of them.

ILFR Team 2023/2024

ARCHIVIO magazine N. 9

International Library of Fashion Research has been featured, alongside other major collections worldwide, as one one of the public institutions in Archivio’s map of fashion archives. In this editorial, the librarian Ilaria Trame has performed her daily tasks in handling the collection and the objects stored in the archive, directed by ILFR founder Elise By Olsen.

• Guest editor Stefano Tonchi
• Deputy editor Marco Pecorari
• Art director and styling Elise By Olsen
• Librarian and model Ilaria Trame
• Fashion / clothes private collection by Elise By Olsen and Else Skålvoll Thorenfeldt
• Photography Assistant Mikael Krogstad Austvold

Rimowa

Picture in the Library for Rimowa

Exhibitions

The International Library of Fashion Research has many different exhibitions, which I have photographed. ‘GAME OVER! FASHION & PLAY’, “The Italian Foot-In-Print. Traces of Italian fashion printed matter”, and “Writing Clothes: An Exhibition of Fashion Text” are some of the exhibitions I have photographed.