LibGuides: Fashion Merchandising and Design Subject Guide: Websites

NEW Resource~The Fashion and Race Database

The Fashion and Race Database was founded by Kimberly M. Jenkins, an Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at Ryerson University. This resource seeks to help students, educators, researchers, designers, business professionals and the pedestrian audience learn about the intersections of fashion and race. The goal for the database is to center and amplify BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) fashion scholarship, illuminate under-examined histories and address racism throughout the fashion system. What’s more, this platform will provide hands-on research and publishing opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students and showcase exciting work from established BIPOC writers and allies.

Fashion News

Apparel Search
This website provides news and information on relevant issues in the world of garments and fabrics.
Fashion Trendsetter
This resource offers articles and fashion news, trends, and collections.
Fashion Windows
This website has a unique “designers database” which offers extensive details about a large list of designers, along with monthly archives of past fashion news.
FirstVIEW
This website offers daily reports on fashion updates, an in-depth blog, and a description of the latest “street style.”
New York Times: Fashion and Style
New York Times is a well-known newspaper that provides accurate and recent articles and publications regarding all aspects of fashion.

Fashion Business

Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising
This resource can help students learn details about all degrees in fashion and the possibly careers that can derive from those degrees.
The Business of Fashion
Business of fashion is a resource that offers input on the fashion world from the business standpoint, helping researchers and entrepreneurs.

Fashion Images

Victoria and Albert Fashion Collection
Spanning 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.
Screen Search Fashion
This online resource provides a thematic guide to aspects of 1920s and 1930s fashion and dress as depicted in film from Screen Archive South East’s (SASE) collections.

Magazines

Elle
Elle is a bestselling magazine and their website offers fashion news, ‘street chic’, trend reports, reports on the red carpet, and a large collection of informational videos.
Gentleman's Gazette
This magazine offers everything there is to know about men's fashion, both current and historical.
i-D
Launched in 1980, i-D has built a reputation for being a consistent source of inspiration for all involved in fashion culture.
Paris Vogue
T Magazine
The New York Times style magazine.
Vogue
Vogue is a nation, and word, wide respected resource that has an immense amount of information regarding fashion culture, beauty, and fashion trends/shows. See the links to Vogue UK and Paris Vogue as well.
Vogue UK
WWD
WWD provides information about fashion trends, designs, fabrics, and culture.

Style

Fashion Group International: Designers through the Decades
This website offers information on the popular fashion designers and trends, organized by the decade.
Solemates : A Century in Shoes
Solemates has a unique “dial a decade” feature that gives you details about the shoes that were popular during a certain decade.
Texas Fashion Collection Digital Library
This digital library gives pictures and information on specific pieces of fashion that have been popular in a variety of countries, dating all the way back to the 1800's.

Fashion History

All Sewn Up: Millinery, Dressmaking, Clothing and Costume
This digital collection includes millinery, dressmaking, clothing and costume books from the UW-Madison collections. These books from the first half of the 20th century (1907 – 1940’s) include the history of clothing, styles of dress, fashion drawing, and design and construction of hats, clothing and costumes. Items in this collection will appeal to vintage clothing collectors, those studying costume design, fashion, and women’s history, and those who just enjoy reminiscing about days gone by.
The Met's Costume Institute Fashion Plates
Fashion plates from the collections of the Costume Institute and the Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Fashion plates, 1790-1929, 1700-1955 and men's 1880-1939 are collections of the contents of more than one hundred binders and boxes from the Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library, The Costume Institute, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The Met's Costume Institute Digital Collection
Texts and images from the collections of the Costume Institute and the Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Please note that access to some material in this collection is restricted to computers within The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Fashion Blogs

Gabi Fresh
Gabi Gregg set off on this journey to tackle the infuriating gap for plus size women. Her blog promotes body positivity while being impeccably stylish, vibrant, and colorful.
Phil Oh for Vogue
One of the most influential street style photographers.
WhoWhatWear
Everything you need regarding celebrity fashion.
Wendy's Look Book
A fashion-forward blogger with a passion for people, art, culture, and music brings all of it together. Wendy wears a lot of hats; she is a blogger, content creator, and a juvenile justice advocate who is just as passionately working towards helping foster children, because she understands the struggle, for she has been one.
Accidental Icon
Lynn Slater started the ‘Accidental Icon’ because of the dearth of fashion blogs catering to the needs of women over 50s, 60s and beyond.

Fashion Merchandising and Design Subject Guide