contains fashion specific dictionaries and encyclopedias. It's a great place to get definitions and overviews on a topic.
contains fashion specific dictionaries and encyclopedias.
has thousands of images from museum collections around the world. You can browse by Country of Origin, Museum, Medium and Time Period.
Designers get a lot of ideas from garments of the past. FIT's online sources provide great garment images. Artstor, museum sites, and the Berg Fashion Library include lots of clear photographs of clothes in museum collections. The Women's Magazine Archive, Vogue, and Harper's Bazaar can be found in ProQuest databases, and we have other great historic sources as well.
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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.
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The Asian Fashion Archive is a digital resource project, which highlights Asian fashion, culture, and history.
A database with the goal of centering and amplifying voices voices of those who have been racialized (and thus marginalized) in fashion, illuminate under-examined histories and address racism throughout the fashion system. Featuring resources, digital objects, biographical profiles, essays, directory and calendar of events
The Met's collection includes more than 40,000 items dating from contemporary fashion back to 4,000 B.C. ranging from recent couture to textiles and accessories that give insight into life from the pre-Columbian era.
