Corresponding to Queer Culture Year 2022, International Library of Fashion Research is collaborating with the National Museum
of Norway on an inagural outdoor exhibition project themed ‘Queering Fashion’.
For this project, outsider artists and key figures from the young and progressive international underground scene and queer community,
were invited to delve into concepts of queerness via fashion, if not queerness of fashion.
The exhibition project is also accompanied by an extended reading list integrating the permanent collection of International Library
of Fashion Research as a living source for intellectual exploration and expansion.
Contributors include Dahir Hussein, Derek McCormack, Elise By Olsen, Francesca Granata, Jeppe Ugelvig, Lengua, Matthew Linde,
Shahan Assadourian and Taylor Thoroski.
softcover
44 pages
150 x 240 mm
2022
published by INTERNATIONAL LIBRARY OF FASHION RESEARCH
International Library of Fashion Research (ILFR) is a specialized fashion library founded in 2020 by Norwegian editor Elise By Olsen,
based in Oslo and partnered with the National Museum of Norway. It opened physically in November 2022 in the historic
Station Master’s House, offering free public access to an ever-growing collection of fashion-related printed materials—
from lookbooks and show invitations to ephemera dating back to the 1970s.
ILFR preserves ephemeral fashion print culture and brings it to life through exhibitions, talks, a Fashion Research Symposium,
public programs, and digital archives accessible globally.
Its collection has grown through donations from prominent fashion houses and publishers such as
Hermès, Comme des Garçons, M/M (Paris), and KD Presse.
Founded in Tokyo in 2010, twelvebooks is a distributor specializing in art books.
As the exclusive Japanese representative for selected international publishers, twelvebooks manages the distribution
and promotion of their publications with a vision of making art books more widely accessible.
twelvebooks is also involved in various art book initiatives, including organizing the TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR.
In November 2024, twelvebooks opened SKWAT/twelvebooks in Nishikameari, Katsushika, a space that offers public access to its storage warehouse.