Skip to Main Content

Fashion Design: Inspiration, Illustration, and Tools

Starting fresh

New design projects require new ideas. The FIT Library has hundreds of ways to feed your head with new ideas. Databases, ebooks, and websites on every kind of art and technology, forecasting services, retrospectives of old designers: we've done our best to present sources you can get to from home and on campus.

EMc/MS 10/21

Art as Inspiration

Select a color to see matching Classic Artworks - Google Art & Culture (free)

Google Art & Culture: Color in Classic Artwork

Online Trend Services

Zoom Into The Thread

Google Zoom Into Threads - McQueen EmbroideryArt Camera:
ZOOM INTO THE THREADS

High resolution images showing fine details
from Google Arts & Culture Collections

Image: Detail from Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen A/W 2016 (British Fashion Council)

Searching for ideas

cover of Madeleine Vionnet by Betty Kirke

Madeleine Vionnet, with patterns of her work

5th floor Oversize TT505.V56 K57

Vogue Italia Archive

Every issue from 1964-Current, including articles, ads, editorial content

cover of Mix magazine

Mix

4th floor PERS Desk

Materials experimentation