There’s a Free Fashion Library With 2,500 Magazines
Thanks to Library180, the soul is back in image research.
Library180 is a researcher’s paradise; a bacchanalia of 2,500 old issues of fashion and photography magazines, plus a slice of erotica. You’ll get your standard fill of Italian and French Vogue, along with American Vogue from the ‘80s and ‘90s. There are the issues of i-D, The Face, and Dazed. But then there are a slew Dutch magazines (the cover of issue #17 from 1998 is the most striking portrait of Shalom Harlow), Visionaire (there’s a Barbara Kruger-designed candle that wafts of weed!), the sassy glossy Viva (where Anna Wintour was fashion editor in the late ‘70s), and the elegantly raunchy German «O» (the fetish publication had a beef with Oprah and her own O magazine.) And remember incredibly shot lookbooks you could actually hold? There are rows of them—the last vestige from when brands had money.
The library was created by Nikki Igol with the help of Steven Chaiken. (The two met at V magazine years ago.) The space, tucked away at
