Research A Designer - SUNY Korea - A Guide to FIT Resources - LibGuides at Fashion Institute of Technology

Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History: Haute Couture (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Charles James gown from the Costume Institute

Haute Couture / Heilbrunn Timeline of Art

Encyclopedias & Dictionaries

Gale eBooks (GVRL) This link opens in a new window
Searchable e-books providing quick information on a variety of topics including business, history, countries of the world, science, education, multicultural studies, social science, and more.
Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
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.

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ABC-CLIO eBook Collection This link opens in a new window
ABC-CLIO contains hundreds of e-books covering a multitude of popular culture topics, including cinema, literature, sports, and research topics. An audio device feature is included for every article/book.

Google Fashion

Google Fashion

How to pronounce the hardest names in fashion

Fashion Designer Names (Harpers Bazaar UK)
InStyle: Fashion Designer Pronunciation Guide
How to correctly say 51 commonly mispronounced names in Fashion

Access to FIT Online Resources

All databases are available only to current FIT students, faculty and staff. An FIT username and password is required to access them.

Fashion & Costume E-Journals & Databases

Artstor This link opens in a new window
Digital library of art images from museums and other institutions.

Registration for an individual account is required for some features.
Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
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.

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Business Source Complete - EBSCO Interface This link opens in a new window
Contains full text articles, abstracts, and citation indexing for scholarly business journals from 1886 to present. Searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,300 journals.
Harper's Bazaar Archive This link opens in a new window
Harper's Bazaar is the world’s oldest continuously published fashion magazine, with coverage starting in 1867 to present with additional access to the UK edition from 1929-2015, both of which are fully indexed and searchable.

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
Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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.
WWD Archive (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of Woman’s Wear Daily from 1910 - current (6 month delay on new issues)
WWD Online (1994-Current) This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage of Woman’s Wear Daily from 1994 - current.

Europeana Collections
Europeana Fashion brings together the digitized collections of more than 30 European public and private institutions.

Also try our full list of Fashion & Accessory Design databases and our Fashion Industry databases as well as our E-Book databases.(BFL:Berg Fashion Library, GVRL, ABC-CLIO, etc.)

Designer files & FITDIL (FIT digital image library)

FITDIL
Log in is only required for content restricted to FIT users. All other users can access our open Library collections by going to the top toolbar to Discover, Experience and Search. FIT username and password required for complete access.

Search FITDIL for Designer Files including articles, newspaper clippings, advertisements, etc. dating from the 1970s to the present.

[Search OneSearch for descriptions of available designer files.]

For Images of a Designer's Collections in general or by season: try our LookBooks collection

(See Runway Coverage for more details) and for Forecast services (see Trend Services)

Search the Conde Nast collection on ArtStor

Search the Condé Nast collection on ArtStor.

The Condé Nast Archive (c.33,000 images) is a leading repository of photography, featuring fashion, celebrity, and lifestyle shots from publications such as Glamour, Vanity Fair, and Vogue, dating from the 1890s to the present. The glamour and star power of fashion is represented in the commercial work of Edward Steichen and Horst P. Horst, through to contemporary takes from the runways of international style capitals, including the work of Patrick Demarchelier. The Fairchild Photo Service, comprised of more than three million photos gathered over six decades, is the fashion world’s preeminent image gallery.