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Forget Pinterest. Forget Tumblr. We’re about to kick it old school.  The Picture Collection of the New York Public Libraryand the Special Collections & FIT Archives of the Fashion Institute of Technology Library have collaborated in launching a digital archive of fashion drawings and sketches by André Fashion Studios.  

Made up over 5,000 original drawings, the collection titled André Studios 1930-1941: Fashion Drawings & Sketches in the Collections of the Fashion Institute of Technology and the New York Public Library, will surely be a thriving source of inspiration to designers young and old.  The best part?  Its completely FREE.  Comparable to the VOGUE archive that can run you up to $1500 a year, these images will be available to anyone that comes looking.  You’ll be able to browse, zoom, and send images straight from the source.  Check them out here.

“I was puzzled and intrigued at this level of hostility. In academia, it was the ‘F’ word,” says Valerie Steele about attitudes toward fashion in her years studying for a doctoral degree at Yale — when fellow students either dismissed, despised or ignored what they kept in their closets.

Now as director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Ms. Steele has brought the intelligence and rigor of her university education to the students at New York’s premier fashion college and to the exhibitions she has mounted over the last decade.