The Fashion Archivist by Roski Yard

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I’m joined by Ingeborg Harms, one of Germany’s leading fashion writers, cultural critics, and thinkers, for a conversation about Jil Sander; her personality, her vision, and the ideas that continue to make her work so relevant today. Our conversation grew out of Jil Sander by Jil Sander , the 2024 book created by Jil Sander in close collaboration with its author,...

Send us Fan Mail In today's episode, I'm joined by Sigrid Ivo, curator of the Ivo Collection, one of the world's most significant collections of bags. Spanning more than 500 years of history, it includes over 5,000 pieces and began in 1996 as a small museum in her parents' home. A decade later, it had grown into the Tassenmuseum Hendrikje, the Museum of Bags and Purses in Amste...

Send us Fan Mail Archive Notes is a series of short editorial episodes that accompany our long-form conversations, bringing together observations, research, and reflections. In this first edition, Freya Roski reflects on the curiosity that led to The Fashion Archivist . From a lifelong habit of collecting and sourcing to recording voice memos whenever she encountered an intriguing designer, garmen...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I’m joined by Myriam Schaefer, the designer behind the Balenciaga City bag; a creation that emerged in 2001 and went on to become one of the most iconic objects in contemporary fashion and a defining cultural symbol of its era. Widely regarded as one of the most important handbag designers of her generation, she has spent decades shaping the fashion industry fr...

Send us Fan Mail In the second part of our conversation, Milan Vukmirović continues tracing decades of fashion thinking, moving deeper into his experiences across editorial and design contexts, including his time at Jil Sander in the early 2000s. We explore how fashion systems shift over time, how archives inform creative decisions, and how looking beyond surface aesthetics reveals the structures...

Send us Fan Mail The Fashion Archivist Podcast, hosted by Freya Roski, explores fashion through research, conversation, and archival material.  Each episode combines interviews, monologues, and deep dives with previously unseen or unheard material to examine how fashion knowledge is formed, shared, and interpreted today. The series looks at the people, ideas, and systems that shape contemporary fa...

Send us Fan Mail In the first part of our conversation, Milan Vukmirovic reflects on his personal path into fashion, from his education and early formative years to the beginnings of his career in the industry. Milan Vukmirovic is a former Creative Director of Jil Sander, Design Director at Gucci under Tom Ford, co-founder of the Paris concept store Colette, Creative Director for Trussardi and Por...