Practical Sewing Blogs
Handmade by Carolyn, (photo above) has won so many awards. She inspired many modern sewists to again start making clothing and keeps them encouraged with her amazing range of apparel projects!
Colette’s Blog
The blog has loads of ideas but they have split their efforts to including a monthly magazine with loads of tips and several new patterns with each issue.
Marcy Tilton and her gang at the art barn track trends, display new fabric and take trips to Paris on her blog.
Design School Couture
These books have a number of highly exotic and sometimes quite difficult projects that manipulate fabric in new ways. Most people simply enjoy the books for inspiration but there is a Facebook page for people who actually do use the techniques outside the design school and are willing to share their experience collectively.
Designers – RTW Retail and Fabric
Ideas come from everywhere, but how to translate those into apparel? Some designers share their sources of inspiration and others produce work that inspires us to work with new materials, colors or styles.
Tory Burch Inspiration Blog is a little window into what a top designer is thinking about. She also launched an interesting active wear collection , Tory Sport, which uses interesting althetic fabrics inspiring others to start working with these technical fabrics in a way that allows their incorporation into street wear.
“Maker/Crafter” looking items from this line often have unusual details such as collars, pockets, embrodery, etc.
Anthropologyhttps://www.anthropologie.com
Amy Butler’s Inspiration Blog turned into an online magazine.