Albright Fashion Library x Gilt
Brief
The team at Albright Fashion Fashion library wanted to reach newer, younger, up-and-coming clients—and launched a promotion with Gilt.com geared toward the latter’s fashion-obsessed, affluent customers. My brief was to capture this one-of-a-kind style mecca through words and images for the millions on our email list.
This dazzling fashion showroom, home to a comprehensive yet impeccably edited collection of some 20,000 items, is an essential stop for the fashion elite. You’re invited.
The Albright team will help you create a head-to-toe look that will be chic, bold and truly right—one that will turn heads and get you noticed and photographed at your next big function.
The space delights the eye with rows of metallics, brilliant reds and fur accessories, wardrobes of jeweled accessories and handbags, and much more throughout the 7,000-square-foot showroom.
Creative director Patricia Black heads a team of dynamic staff who understand the emotional landscape of fashion: the stylist’s inspiration, the costumer’s muse, the target of the consumer campaign, or the spirit of the newest “It” girl.
Clients throughout the industry trust Black’s strong point of view and ability to deliver exactly what they need, within any budget. The Daily Beast has called Black “fashion’s miracle worker.”
New York magazine named Albright Fashion Library “Best One-Night Stand with a Stylist” in its 2011 “Best of New York” issue. “Every outfit at Albright Fashion Library is an exclamation point,” writes The New Yorker’s Patricia Marx.
About Albright Fashion Library
Offering an archive of classic looks—from Chanel suits to Saint Laurent gowns, from Gucci belts to Manolo Blahnik mules—as well as contemporary looks by some of the most exciting young designers working today, Albright Fashion Library’s encyclopedic holdings dazzle and inspire. Using her superb eye and extensive connections in the industry, fashion guru Irene Albright has amassed an unrivaled cross-section of high fashion both archival and cutting-edge. Every day, stylists, editors and designers visit the 7,000-square-foot showroom to make use of the comprehensive collection.
Working with some of the best—and most opinionated—talent in film, editorial fashion, advertising and theater, creative director Patricia Black and her talented team help clients source inspired looks for photo shoots, films, performances or special events. Whether a celebrity needs an Edwardian-inspired dress for the red-carpet premiere of her new historical epic, or a cosmetics brand needs a rack of pieces in hues that perfectly complement its new bronzer, Black’s team is committed to meeting any need. Stylish professional women—on Wall Street as well as in publishing and the entertainment business—seek out the LIbrary’s expertise for their own red carpet occasions, or just for a special evening out. The team will dress day-of clients from head to toe in under one hour.
While the fashion-savvy love perusing the racks of looks and accessories (there are more than 3,000 pairs of current designer shoes, luxury bags and jewels to consider), they return again and again for the Library team’s deep expertise, peerless taste and collaborative spirit. Welcome to fashion wonderland.
— Brian Healy, Gilt City Editor