Since 2022, the Westminster Menswear Archive has been documenting the development of the Massimo Osti Studio. As part of this documentation, a sample of each production garment produced in the first year of the Massimo Osti Studio will be accessioned into the Westminster Menswear Archive.

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Following initial discussions between Lorenzo Osti and Professor Andrew Groves in March 2022, the Westminster Menswear Archive has been documenting the development of the Massimo Osti Studio and providing both historical and contemporary contextual research in relation to their activities.

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Traditionally, fashion museums normally only accession garments into their collections years after their date of production, so that their aesthetic, societal or critical value has already been established. However, as the processes of design, production, and consumption have radically changed in the last decade with the emergence of direct to consumer consumption and the rise of limited edition drops, this approach can mean that collections are unable to document the relationship of these processes to the final garments that are produced.

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As active participants in this process, the Westminster Menswear Archive has gained a far more comprehensive understanding of the aesthetic, cultural, and industrial contexts that have informed the garments that the Massimo Osti Studio is producing. This knowledge allows for a far more in-depth contextualization of the garments that will be housed in the archive, which will be available to researchers and students so that it may inform their work.

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This methodology has been central to the activities of the Westminster Menswear Archive and was itself informed by the garment archive created by Massimo Osti at the beginning of his career. The widespread use of garment archives by designers was a relatively hidden activity at the time, but the practice was central to the establishment of Westminster's MA Menswear course in 2016, which launched concurrently with the archive. It provided students with access to over 2000 archival garments, including a large number of examples of Massimo Osti's work, to support their understanding of materials, fabrication, and design methodologies.

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Robert Newman, who is now Head of Design for the Massimo Osti Studio, was among the first cohort of students to graduate from the course, and was able to use the archive to inform his own design processes. It is therefore fitting that the garments he is now producing for the Massimo Osti Studio will be accessioned into the Westminster Menswear Archive to inform and inspire the next generation of designers.