Answered By: Laura Percival Last Updated: Jul 02, 2025 Views: 352
Answered By: Laura Percival
Last Updated: Jul 02, 2025 Views: 352
The main databases for a fashion student are:
- Drapers Online - Fashion retail industry news, trends and analysis (Note - you need create a personal account by visiting Drapers Online (website) when on campus and registering with your BCU email address).
- Fashion Monitor - News and contact details for the fashion industry. (Note - Only available on campus and you also need to register individually for this site via your email address).
- WGSN This fashion website contains downloadable images which may be used for teaching and learning purposes, as well as market and industry news, fashion retailing information and designer profiles. Please ignore 'Login' options on the top right hand corner, as you don't need to login here - just click on any content on the site.
- Art Full Text Featuring full-text articles, indexing and abstracts from an array of publications. It covers a variety of topics from fine, decorative and commercial art to photography, folk art, film and architecture.. (Best viewed using Chrome).
- Design and Applied Arts Index Coverage includes fashion, textiles, interior design, theatre design, industrial design, ceramics, glass, jewellery and photography.
- Passport Business intelligence on countries, companies, markets and consumers worldwide.
- Bloomsbury Berg Fashion Library Berg Fashion Library is the leading resource for students and researchers of fashion studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, with great visual and integrated content, it is invaluable for researchers in the areas of fashion, museum studies, cultural studies, anthropology and more.
- Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library Comprehensive online collection for the interdisciplinary study of dress and costume history, design and making and offers an indispensable scholarly and educational resource to support the study of dress history, costume studies and costume design.
- Bloomsbury Fairchild Books Library Browse and search ebooks covering construction, draping, fashion business management, history, illustration, journalism, marketing, promotion, theory, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion, textiles and more.
- Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases Search for case studies to support the development of essential business skills required in the fashion industry.
- Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive Watch from over 2,500 videos of fashion shows, with accompanying text, from London, Milan, New York and Paris between 1979 to 2003.
- Common Objective Business database for the ethical and sustainable fashion industry from the Ethical Fashion Forum.
- Fashion and Race Database Search or browse for information from a wide range of materials including essays, images, news stories and profiles on the subject of fashion and race.
- Vogue Archive Search or browse the American edition of Vogue magazine from the very first issue in 1892 to the present day.
- Women's Wear Daily Archive Search the digital archive of the US fashion magazine Women's Wear Daily (WWD). The digital archive includes cover-to-cover full-text access from 1910 to present, with a 6 month embargo on access to the latest content.
You can find out more about fashion resources on the subject guide.
If you would like help using any of these resources you can book a tutorial with Chloe Smith, the librarian for Fashion and textiles or ask at the Library Help Desk.
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