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.
Use an incognito browser to access this resource. Click to watch video.
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
Use the password listed for Doneger
Users are required to create a MY FS account
Use Mozilla/Firefox, Google Chrome, and Safari
Users are required to create an individual account:
1. Register for an account using link on our Library database page, using your FIT email.Register for an account here using your FIT email. Select “Design Clients.”
In the Company field, enter "FIT," and for job title enter "FIT Student" or “FIT Faculty”
You will receive an email from Sophicolor once your account has been approved.
Students must create an account and re-activate their account every 90 days: click to create or re-activate account
Locked out of your account for too many incorrect login attempts? Reset your password here.
To access WGSN Fashion login via the proxy and then with your WGSN username and password select the part of the site you wish to use from the top menu.
Use an incognito browser to access this resource.
Students must create an account and re-activate their account every 90 days: click to create or re-activate account
Locked out of your account for too many incorrect login attempts? Reset your password here.
To access WGSN Lifestyle & Interiors:
Use an incognito browser to access this resource
Contains images, 360 degree panoramas, and descriptions of physical and digital window displays in a real-time, searchable database of community-generated content that provides data on what retail environments look like around the world with coverage from 1931 to present.
1. Visit WindowsWear
2. Click “Join now” on the top right
3. Select "Academic" on the right
4. Under "existing members" select "FIT"
5. Create profile
6. Under "get started" select "student" or "faculty"
7. Use your FIT email and create a password
8. Click "join"
You will need to login to WindowsWear after authenticating via the proxy to use the site.
Fashion and trend forecasting service
To access Peclers(+):
Use activation code: JXWYEND7
Use your FIT email address
For "position" type student or employee job title
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)
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