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NEW: Selvedge Online
- SelvedgeOnline magazine dedicated to textiles.
Fashion Reserves
Research Current Fashion Trends
- WGSNTrend analysis and coverage of the fashion industry. Create a free individual account for full access.
Research World Fashion History
- Bloomsbury Fashion CentralE-books and articles on fashion and dress. (Included in Search Everything)
Sourcing Journal
- Sourcing JournalFocused on sourcing and manufacturing in the apparel industry.
E-Books on Fashion
We Wear Culture - Google Cultural Institute
- We Wear Culture - Google Cultural InstituteGoogle's collaboration with some of the greatest fashion collections in the world. Explore over 400 stories by curators from leading institutions across the world
Selected Surveys of Fashion
The Fashion Book by Call Number: GT596 .F38 2013
Fashion: 150 Years by Call Number: GT596 .S44 2012
Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, 10 vols. by Call Number: REF GT507 .E54 2010
Fashion: The Definitive History of Costume and Style by Call Number: REF GT511 .F365 2012
A Queer History of Fashion by Call Number: TT507 .Q62 2013
Fashion in Detail 1700-2000 by Call Number: TT504 .F38 2013
Designers / Design Houses
Yves Saint Laurent + Halston by Call Number: TT505.S24 M43 2015
Alexander Mcqueen by Call Number: TT505.M347 A4 2015
Marimekko: in Patterns by Call Number: NK1035.F53 M372 2014
Attitudes by Call Number: TT505.C456 M69 2013
Emilio Pucci by Call Number: TT505.P83 F75 2013
Giambattista Valli by Call Number: TT505.V356 G53 2013
Charles James by Call Number: TT505.J36 K63 2014
Dries Van Noten by Call Number: TT505.N67 D74 2014
Shiatzy Chen by Call Number: TT505.W3553 S53 2014
Etro by Call Number: TT505.A1 E87 2014
Dior Impressions by Call Number: TT505.D5 D44 2013
Roger Vivier by Call Number: GT2130 .V58 2013
Fashion Sketching
Illustration Now! Fashion by Call Number: TT509 .I4 2013
Fashion Illustration for Designers by Call Number: TT509 .H16 2011
Advanced Fashion Drawing by Call Number: TT509 .D62 2010
Portfolio Presentation for Fashion Designers by Call Number: TT507 .T345 2010
Fashion Illustration Techniques by Call Number: TT509 .F345 2008
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Video Tutorials
- LinkedIn LearningVideo courses taught by industry experts on software as well as business and creative skills.
Get High-Quality Images
Image collections to support fashion design:
- WGSN Image LibraryImages from the catwalk, retail, vintage, as well as fabric swatches, flats, colors, brushes and fills, as well as prints and graphics.
Websites
M2M
Made to Measure (M2M) is a new fashion video network. M2M covers the world of fashion and style – past, present and future — through fresh and culturally relevant storytelling. M2M features original programming, classic fashion films and runway shows from the world’s top designers. M2M’s original series and documentaries highlight the people, issues, trends and events that have defined and transformed the fashion landscape.
Council of Fashion Designers of America
The Council of Fashion Designers of America, Inc. (CFDA) is a not-for-profit trade association whose membership consists of more than 400 of America’s foremost womenswear, menswear, jewelry and accessory designers.
Trend Hunter
With 60,000,000 monthly views, TrendHunter.com is the world's largest, most popular trend community. Our head office is based in Toronto, Canada, and we are fueled by a global network of 155,000 members and 3,000,000 fans.
WGSN Tumbler
Refinery29
A modern woman's destination for how to live a stylish, well-
- FIT Timeline and Research HubOpen-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe.
Color Tools
- WGSNWGSN has color libraries including Pantone. It is difficult to navigate to. Choose All Markets in the upper menu and then Create and then Design Resource and lastly Color Libraries. You can create your own palette in the Color Play section if you first set up a free account using your MassArt email as your username.
- Pantone Color FinderBrowse Pantone colors and convert them to HTML, RGB, and CMYK values for digital and print.
Pantone +Plus Series Color Bridge by Call Number: REF Z258 .P36 2016Fan decks located in the Reference section of the library. Must be used on site.
Fashion Collections/Institutes
- Fashion Museum, BathThe Museum of Costume was opened in the Assembly Rooms on 23 May 1963. It was founded by Doris Langley Moore, a designer, collector, writer and scholar, who gave her famous private collection of costume to the city of Bath. The Museum of Costume changed its name to the Fashion Museum in summer 2007. The Fashion Museum is owned by Bath and North East Somerset Council and is managed by the Heritage Services section. It is housed in the Assembly Rooms building, which is owned by the National Trust.
- LACMA Costume and TextilesThe department houses more than twenty thousand objects, representing more than one hundred cultures and two thousand years of human creativity in the textile arts. Particularly well represented are European Renaissance and European and American textiles, accessories and fashionable dress. The department has outstanding collections of Islamic, South and Southeast Asian, and Asian material, including two major Iranian sixteenth-century carpets—the Ardabil and the Coronation.
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume InstituteLimit search to Department Costume Institute.
- New York Public Library Andre Studio Collectionxplore an exciting period in the history of fashion through this spectacular collection of drawings and sketches produced by the New York firm André Fashion Studios in the 1930s and early 1940s.
- Victoria and Albert Fashion CollectionSpanning four centuries, the V&A’s Fashion collection is the largest and most comprehensive collection of dress in the world. Key items in the collection include rare 17th-century gowns, 18th-century ‘mantua’ dresses, 1930s eveningwear, 1960s daywear and post-war couture. Plus a growing number of pieces from 21st-century designers.
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Fashion Journals at MassArt
Bride's
Costume: the Journal of the Costume Society
Elle
Glamour
GQ
Ornament
Taunton Threads
L'Uomo Vogue
Vogue
Vogue Italia
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WWD-Women's Wear Daily
Print journals are located on the 13th floor of the library.
Citation Help
Online
MLA Handbook, 9th Edition by Call Number: REF LB2369 .G53 2021
The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th EditionCall Number: REF Z253 .C453 U558 2024
