The Sartorialist Via The Selby @ Lanvin Homme
My very plugged in assistant Tracy found this photograph of Lucas Ossendrijver's (Lanvin menswear) design studio on The Selby. Instantly she recognized two of my images on his inspiration board.
I often hear that designers use my images for inspiration, but I never believe it until I see it, so this is pretty cool.
I'm often asked in interviews if my photos have a direct effect on trends. I always say that designers don't really look at my site for direct copying, but instead for a spirit - and the photos that Lucas has chosen are a perfect example of this idea.
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post a commentYes I totally agree, I've used your images on moodboards in the past to convey a 'spirit'.
Lanvin eh? Wow!
nicola xx
it was cool to get into lanvin via the selby... and it's not a big surprise that designer's are using your pictures. they are a big inspiration for many many people!
Art inspiring more art- that's just awesome!
lanvin's winter fall collection is amazing i wanted everything from it
love that designer alway will
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Wow, that is really cool... inspiration can be found almost anywhere.....
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I respect your humility...
Some of my friends who have gone in to fashion design tell me clothing designers look at your site to see what people are actually wear and how.
Believe it, believe it! You're kind of big deal you are, you are!
How cool and flattering!
I'm writing a PhD in media theory using the ideas of a wonderful Michel Foucault - and I use your site as inspiration. Beautiful cities, characterful faces, effortless cool and great clothes will always inspire (whatever your task may be).
It must be so exciting to see your work inspiring people whose own work you admire. I love your site and the graciousness with which you share your photos. The spirit of your pics definitely reach me, so thanks for the lift.
Lovely photos for a lovely mood board more than explaining the lovely things that come out of Lanvin.
Beauts.
Oh! This is amazing! Congrats.
the most beautiful thing in the world to be someone's inspiration
Very cool to part of someone's inspiration ...
I have turned to your blog for inspiration in the pass! Please check out my blog at East2WestStyle.blogspot.com
=)
Congrats!
-Walls
Wow, very cool indeed! Love the New Zealand bird in the middle!
that's great! You are an influence for such many people!!!
Great work, Tracy. ;-)
Best!
Jose
Love the Kiwi. Sorry, just had to make that comment
i love the guy with the overcoat i wish i dident have to wait until i am 60 to wear somthing like this.
scott, where is garance? her blog has been abandoned for quite some time!
a mi me encanta!
That painting in the middle on the right! Feels so familiar. Can someone clarify it for me?
I love inspiration boards!!!
Oh wow, that must be so amazing! :')
wow really flattering!
congrats!
yayy congrats!
i think ur pics are inspiration x everyone!
xxx
I would be surprised if you were just MY best kept secret;) They would be losing out if they didn't look to you for inspiration. Fashion magazines don't inspire me as much since I found your blog...I'm obsessed
in respond to Theophilus Davenport:
the painting of noble person in the middle of the board is the portait of last Imperior of Russia - Nicolas II...
for more info check the link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II_of_Russia
PS - thank you for this blog and nice shots, congrats for great work! Love your vision...
Congrats, and a great example of what keeps us all coming back to your blog -- the occasional image that leaps out of the internet ether and grabs us and changes our ideas about who we want the world to see us as. Thanks!
props
as i read this i can see in the corner of my right eye an entire boardfrom your images of men with bicycles- inspiration for my next season collcetion. not lanvin, but still something....
How exciting!!
So, when are they coming to your house?
sikhism represent! their turbans tend towards the exaggerated side though..love your work sartorialist!
I love how you nonchalently take credit for other people's style... to be clear: you did NOT dress as those men in your photos did; THEY did. YOU did not inspire Lanvin; the elderly man who dressed so impeccably did.
Humble pie is a most delicious dessert, should you ever feel like indulging.
P.S. Those two photos of yours capture two most sartorially and impressively dressed gentleman.
to Scott: they may be "your" images, but the true source of the inspiration comes from the person who is wearing the clothes (put the outfit together) - you just happened to be in the right place, at the right time with your camera...
Yay I see a Kiwi!!! That's exciting too! He must like New Zealand.
These photos are magical; they take me to another place.
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I think that as you say, the essence of these images is key - and it's also a very cool compliment.
I can honestly tell you, I intern for a designer, and when she asked me to pull inspiration shots, I came here (aside from using WGSN like everyone else in the office) and got her some great images. They definitely made it on the inspiration boards we brought to the meetings, and a few made a permanent spot on her inspiration wall!!
Awesome! We can all inspire each other. :)
Lucas isn't the only one. I've printed some of your photos to put up on my design boards too because your subjects are inspirational and more importantly, they're real! so thank you for inspiring me!
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spirit indeed :)
inspiration boards rule!
Too cool.
That painting in the middle on the right! Feels so familiar. Can someone clarify it for me?
Nicholas II, the last Emperor of Russia
Sart, you certainly are an inspiration...that's a given. I am also enjoying the pic of Tsar Nicholas II on that pinboard as well!
Love the way you have them all positioned.
always love this blog :)
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" When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. "
Julia Margaret Cameron
YOU DO ARE AN INSPIRATION. LOVE IT.
CHICMUSE
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first thing i noticed was the kiwi! go little old NZ. Also, your pictures are awesome.. definitly a great inspiration to me
that could be more fabulous - but I can't imagine how...
Us too, the readers! We use your images for inspiration! Just so you know. :-)
omg! I just saw that on The Selby .com and then just happened to click over to Sart... crazy coincidence!
Tredsetter!
Im not at all surprised by this, as amazing as it is. I've been consistently observing your site for my entire teen years; your pictures never fail to inspire or captivate me.
I may not be a world renowned designer, but your photos find our way into my heart and so many others, notorious or not.
Thank you thank you thank you, for doing something so simply unique!
WOW I Love it!
i know nothing about fashion but check your blog everyday to look at the sublime images you capture...u are truly inspiring to anyone who appreciates beauty.
hmmm, am i the only one that finds this post a litle less than humble? you take nice picures of cool people. the people are the inspiration, not the pictures.
Wow! Thats a pretty amazing achievment. But your photos are completely perfect for moodboards. I see ones every now and then that would go perfectly with some of the moodboards I've made..
Conratulations!
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How funny, was JUST looking at those pics myself too!
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I'm absolutely certain that in ten or twenty years we will see the real legacy of The Sartorialist and how your site has enabled to track trends literally day by day. Simply going through your archives shows this aleady, you can see the shoulder silhouettes getting bigger and bigger in front of your very eyes!
PS - great Sartorialist article in UK Vogue this month
Urgh, Tsar Nicholas II would look much better if he lost the cigarette!
Being a sikh girl,I love how there's a picture of Nihang Sikhs on the board. A little over the top and not a conventional practice of the religion today but this has left me feeling a little proud of my people nonetheless.
P.S,Never realised how beautiful and interesting these Nihangs were till now :)
I'm so happy for you, that's a great proof of your incredible eye and talent!
Bravo
It helps that one of the photos is of one of the lanvin designers..
Wow, Tracey has the best job ever!
I love Lanvin, The Selby and your pictures :-D
I find it funny that I, in turn, bookmarked this photo as part of my "inspiration" folder.
Don't mess with the Sikhs. Tough cookies
Don't mess with the Nihangs, toughest.
Not exactly mood boards, but I do clip your shots to dossiers I build when building a character study. You know how to read a face and you're not an age-ist.
Interesting to find that Mr. Ossendrijver and I clipped similar shots.
I love the picture of the Tsar... or perhaps his English kin, I get them confused. Either way, love the pictures and the subject as well.
I agree! I am inspired by your images because they convey a mood and every picture seems to have their own story. I print them out and make clippings too ((: They're awesome.
Maybe you'll come to Singapore one day..
so interesting ot see inside the designer's world a little
congratulations to you
I do love the way that wall is put together, it may just be a couple of fantastic photos just hung on the wall, but all the photos makes you get a hole bunch of ides and thoughts.
Like the way designers use you as an inspiration.
ahhhhhhhhhhh the Selby!
That is truly awesome. And yes, you ARE a big deal. So big that you are almost viewed by the mainstream and I do not mean that in a pejorative way at all. I simply mean that your blog is not only viewed only by the uber cool and fashionable who are in the know. Lots of people from all walks of life get inspiration from you (or at least look at your wonderful photos with wonder and disbelief ;)) To me that is just as cool of an accomplishement as being spotted on Lucas' design board. WOW! That IS F*!@ing cool though.
You should be proud of this.
I'm sure your father would be proud of this too; YOU have become an inspiration to big name designers, not only your images.
That is the Tsar, not George V. Both total hotties.
It's unfortunate that others commented on a lack of humility. They totally missed it. Yes, the subjects and how they dressed are the inspiration, but 'Great Design is simply borrowed'. None of us, including Lanvin, would have access to these individuals' ideas without the work you do to bring them to us via your website. Many thanks.
well this doesn't surprise me at all. you've made me a hero many times. and on dark days when the ideas don't come quickly, i open up my fat file of your photos -- sitting right there on my desktop -- and just stare until i feel like thinking again.
how about this: a crowd-sourced tribute blog. your readers around the world can email shots of our various mood boards, concept boards and fashion spreads. and we'll call it "sartorial influences."
I'm just writing about trends to my master's thesis, and I definitely will write about that:)
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yes its the Tsar, but which portrait? Anyone know? the Serov one or the Repin one from the Duma that was bayonetted in the Revolution?
T! you have a strong eye for details even if that means identifying your bosses own work. You're an inspiration to all assistants!
That's amazing! I don't know how anyone couldn't be inspired by your photos though!
i love the nihang sikhs on the bottom love that blue
He also has an image of a kiwi on there - holding the whole world in its beak. I like that! (I'm a New Zealander/ Kiwi myself)