The Fashion Collection is made up of different parts, and you can find out more about them by using these links:
It is important to use good quality images in your work. This means not only high resolution but good provenance. This refers to the source of the image. Is there accurate, authoritative information about the object? For example:
Instagram and Pinterest have lots of images, but information about the pictures is often very sketchy. Try to use good quality books, museums, galleries and archives or their websites.
These are links to some good quality sources of images:
As good designers, it is important to find quality images to use in your work, whether it is an assessed assignment or practice-based research for your studio projects. Where you can, it is sometimes best to use primary sources. A primary source is an actual garment, design or artefact you are viewing yourself in a museum, gallery, shop or archive. You are looking at the physical object, and recording it in some way yourself - by photography, video, drawing, description in words. It is a direct interaction between you and the object.
A secondary source is one where you are looking at someone else's response to an object, it may be in a book, a magazine, journal article, video, website.
The difference between using a primary or secondary source could be summed up by thinking about an exhibition at the V&A. If you visited and looked at a dress on display, took your own photographs and wrote about your responses to the garment, you would be using it as a primary source. If you looked at the exhibition catalogue and read what the author had written about the dress, you are using a secondary source.
For guidance about how to reference objects, images and add captions to illustrations in your work, use the link below.
