Reddit reviews Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty

Most of these are more Image than Text.

Hedi Slimane: Anthology of a Decade

Rick Owens

Ann Demeulemeester

Dries Van Noten

Pharrell: Places and Spaces I've Been

Supreme

Raf Simons

KAWS

Hedi Slimane: Rock Diary

Undercover

Alexander McQueen: Savage Diary

Yves Saint Laurent

Vanity Fair 100 Years: From the Jazz Age to Our Age

Louis Vuitton: Art, Fashion, and Architecture

Chanel: The Vocabulary of Style

Dior Couture

Tom Ford

Unlabel: Selling You Without Selling Out by Marc Ecko

Sneaker Tokyo vol.2 'Hiroshi Fujiwara'

Bape

Hiroshi Fujiwara: Fragment

My several month old list: Fashion Podcasts and Interviews

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I've been collecting a few podcasts to listen to in my spare time and came across an enormous amount when searching both on /r/malefashionadvice, /r/malefashion and /r/femalefashionadvice.

I thought it'd be nice to share a few I've found which were interesting and which other people can enjoy.

I know my fashion interests can definitely skew to the boring, so if you have any more suggestions please comment below!

Podcasts & Youtube:

• Dressed podcast run by two fashion historians this weekly podcast explores the incredibly rich and complex history behind the clothes we wear.
  
  
• Stuff you Missed in History Class which is part of the HowStuffWorks podcast network has some great episodes on fashion history, Marie-Antoinette and the first fashion designer Rose Betin. Search 'fashion' for some good hits.
  
  
• The Ultimate Fashion History is run by another fashion historian who produces great original content.
  
  
• Loose Threads this fashion intelligence and analyst company also has a nice podcast which talks about power suiting to product manufacturer.
  
  
• Unravel is done by three alumni of the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) graduate program who take a fresh and more modern approach to their topics. They go in-depth with their podcasts and have nice light hearted tone.
  
  
• The Talks has a wealth of good interviews with people in all walks of life, and there’s a good chunk of interviews of people in fashion. Here are a few selected ones: Tom Ford, Rick Owens, Thom Browne and Craig Green.
  
  
• Blamo! is a podcast by Jeremy Kirkland who talks to various people in the fashion world, from designers to GQ editors to street photographers. Notable episodes include: Robert Geller and Lawrence Schlossman of Four Pins fame.
  
  
• Business of Fashion has their own podcast section which takes fashion from a business perspective. The website as a whole is great. Original articles are informative and they have an indispensible Daily Digest worth going through. Site has a soft paywall.
  
  

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• Racked even though they have a lot of fluff articles and have to pull a lot of clickbait stunts the writers over at Racked occasionally write some really insightful articles on topics about garments, the industry or the politics of clothing and fashion.
  
  
• Google: We Wear Culture has a project centered around 'Fashion' titled "the stories behind what we wear". It has a lot of fascinating text and articles accompanied with beautiful images. They collaborate with notable several museums and brands.
  
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  Sources and thanks to:
  
  
• Early Morning Thursdays: Podcasts and Interviews by /u/setfiretoflames
  
• /r/AskHistorians flaired users' pages and sidebar
  
• An amazing amount of discussions and recommendations on /r/malefashionadvice, /r/malefashion and /r/femalefashionadvice
  
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  /u/setfiretoflames booklist Well Regarded Fashion Books: A Community List
  
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  Hey, want to get a nice coffee table book? Let’s make a list of some of our favorites.
  
  Note: I don’t own all of these, some are off friends’ recommendations, and some are for books that haven’t even come out yet. They are mostly in Amazon links for ease of use, but none of the links are affiliate ones (and any that are found in the thread will be removed).
  
  Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty
  
  Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style
  
  Ann Demeulemeester
  
  Blue Blooded
  
  BEAMS: Beyond Tokyo
  
  The Carhartt WIP Archives
  
  Dries Van Noten 1-100
  
  Hiroshi Fujiwara: Fragment
  
  Maison Martin Margiela
  
  Margiela: The Hermès Years
  
  Martin Margiela: The Women’s Collections 1989-2009
  
  Rei Kawakubo
  
  Rick Owens
  
  Rick Owens: Furniture
  
  Take Ivy
  
  Undercover
  
  Vintage Menswear
  
  Yamamoto & Yohji
  
  Yohji Yamamoto

There are a lot of great suggestions here already, but I'd like to add fashion books. I'm talking like those big coffee table books on historical fashion or specific designers. Stuff like 19th Centry Fashion in Detail or Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty. They can get a little pricey but I've found that there's a fair selection of those sorts of books at my local library.

For inspiration on trends, I like to go to fast fashion websites (large inventory, often refreshed) that do more full-outfit styling on their stock photos like ASOS and see what sorts of elements are recurring and how I feel about the styling.

As many people have mentioned already, Pinterest isn't great for up-to-date trend inspiration but I like to use it for more mood-based or non-fashion-based inspiration like botanical inspired fashion. I recommend keeping an entirely separate pinterest account for fashion stuff and using it frequently to get better recommendations. I also make sure to add my own pins to boards periodically from shop photos or instagram and that seems to help with getting more recent-looking pins.

For direct outfit inspiration on instagram I mostly just follow the #redditffa tag. I've yet to find any larger tags that are not completely polluted with referral links and shops.

Best gift I've received: I am a bit of an Alexander McQueen (fashion designer) freak. About three years ago, I mentioned to my boyfriend that I wanted this book about his work. It is a rather expensive book, and I never splurged on it for myself. For my last birthday, my boyfriend gave it to me. He remembered that book for three years! I cried. :)

Best gift I've given: I think the best gift I've given was to my mother. She collects "old Santas" - not those little models or dolls you can find in Joann Fabrics, but old antique things with Santa on them. She has a Santa cake mold from the 1930s, for example. Once while browsing in Goodwill, I got extremely lucky and found a very old silver Santa music box. She loves it, and he's become the centerpiece of her collection!

I'm going to throw out a different idea than what's already been suggested: maybe get them a book related to the fashions they enjoy? Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty is incredible, although it's a little on the pricey side. I'm sure you can find something cheaper, though.