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HA118 Magazines assignment

This guide is a tool to help students and library staff with the Researching Fashion Periodicals & Lookbooks assignment for HA118.

Finding designers in magazines

The FIT Library has hundreds of fashion magazines that include coverage of runway shows. However, most fashion magazines aren't indexed, so it's tough to find a specific subject in them. The goal of this assignment is for you to flip through lots of pages to get a feel for the period.

To find specific articles quickly, the Library has electronic resources that index the most well known titles such as Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue Italia, and WWD.
 - Use the database index to find issues with designer coverage, then go browse those issues!
 - Four unindexed titles with great runway coverage include:
      - Collezioni                                 - Fashion Show
      - Gap Press Collections             - Hola!                               
      - Town & Country (two issues a year)
 
- When looking through the list of magazines below, pay attention to the issue dates for the decade you seek. Titles currently published are listed in red.

Forecasting & Trends (includes Runway) by Decade

Womenswear by Decade