The most frequently-used databases
Digital library of art images from museums and other institutions.
Registration for an individual account is required for some features.
E-books and scholarly articles on fashion topics. It also offers an extensive image collection including 1400+ selections from CoPA (Commercial Pattern Archive 1868 to 2000) and a fashion museum directory.
Real-time access to retail data to make informed product, marketing and pricing decisions.
Provides data, statistics, insights, and perspectives for marketing in a digital world.
Trend reports & forecasting for fashion. Formally called “Fashion Snoops.”
Harper's Bazaar (US): 1867-Current
Harper's Bazaar (UK):
April 1930-Dec 1969
Harpers and Queen (UK):
Jan 1972-Dec 2000
Harper's Bazaar (UK):
Jan 2007-Dec 2007
Hoover’s, a subsidiary of The Dun and Bradstreet Corporation (D&B), offers proprietary business information Hoover's provides data on more than 85 million corporations, 100 million people, and 1,000 industries.
Original market research on product categories, consumer groups, and general trends. Mostly US and Europe-focused.
A profiling system to gain insights and to understand consumer’s media and product usage.
Access to nytimes.com website including most of the archive
There is a 3-user limit to this database -- please log off when you are finished
Fashion and trend forecasting service
FIT Library Research Guide providing information about how to access Simply Analytics through the New York Public Library. This database is a possible alternative to Demographics Now, which has been discontinued.
Contains every issue of Vogue from 1892 to present. Each issue can be browsed cover-to-cover in searchable full-text format. Each page and image is reproduced in high-resolution color with indexing, enabling images to be searched by garment type, designer, and brand names, among others. All covers, advertisements, fold outs and pictorial features are captured as separate documents,which are also indexed, searchable, and viewable in high-resolution color.
Trend reports & forecasting for fashion.
Full-text coverage of Woman’s Wear Daily from 1994 - current.
The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Spanning six decades of reporting on art in all media, Artforum offers features, reviews, and interviews relating to artists, exhibitions, publications, and other art world events / trends.
Scholarly coverage of design and crafts worldwide from 1500 BCE to the present day
Coverage from 1917-2008
Features 90+ years of breaking news, expert analysis, and imagery chronicling fashion market dynamics, design evolution, and business strategies. Standing as one of the longest-running fashion trade titles and a leading news resource for the fashion industry, this exclusive archive brings a focus on men’s fashion, an area largely unrepresented by digital archives until now. Highly influential in the industry, this publication contributed to the establishment of several early menswear fashion shows
The oldest still-published US shelter magazine, House Beautiful not only records the history of interior design, but demonstrates how broader social and cultural trends – e.g. women’s roles, family life, new technologies, and consumer behavior – have manifested themselves in domestic settings for over 125 years.
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