Fashion & Accessory Design

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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Access to:

• Berg Fashion Library
• Fashion Photography Archive
• Fairchild Books Library

Coverage of world fashion from 1500 BCE to present, including books, scholarly articles, and an extensive image collection including the V&A Museum's fashion collection (1600 images); the Philadelphia Museum of Art (2800 images); the Bath Fashion Museum (970 images); the Commercial Pattern Archive (2200 images); the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute collection (2000 images); and the MoMu Fashion Museum, Belgium (600 images).

 

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You must register for BoF Professional's student membership using an FIT email address. Click here to register for "BoF Professional for Students"

Full text access to Costume journal from 2000-current.

 

New users must register for a free account.

A digital tool to explore and work with all 3,500 colors in the Coloro system, allowing you to play with them in different ways.

Full-text coverage of DAZED magazine from 1991 - current.

Trend reports & forecasting for fashion. 

Ebony magazine coverage from 1945-2014.

 

 

 

 

 

Real-time access to retail data to make informed product, marketing and pricing decisions.

New users must request an account -- send an email to EDITED via [email protected] from your FIT email address, providing the name of your major, year of study, and graduation date (month and year are fine); check your email for a reply and login details.

Faculty -- please indicate you are an instructor for access beyond one semester.

 

Esquire magazine coverage from 1933-2014.

 

 

 

A digital repository consisting of over 100,000 images, including FIT student and faculty work, exhibitions, and instructional resources.

 

 

Includes textbooks.

Ebooks covering a full spectrum of topics in fashion including construction, draping, fashion business management, history, illustration, journalism, marketing, promotion, theory, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion, textiles, and more.

Full-text versions of books from the fashion textbook publisher, Fairchild Books.

 

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Curated by Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT in New York, this resource showcases more than 775,000 newly-digitized images that feature forty years of contemporary fashion history. Images range from runway and backstage to street-style fashion, and from key designers’ shows from the last forty years.

 

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Users are required to create a MY FS account 

Trend reports & forecasting for fashion. Use Mozilla/Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari and Internet Explorer (version 10 and up only - older versions of Internet Explorer are not compatible).

Open Access resource on fashion history with entries and essays on a wide range of topics such as the fasion of specific periods, garments, films, and artwork.

Spanning almost 40 years, this collection includes over 1,200 hours of videos of runway shows, designer profiles, and documentary films including coverage of the major fashion weeks in Milan, Paris, New York and London, as well as Miami swim and New York bridal collections.

Search tool that offers the option to search across a customized list of multiple Gale databases at the same time.

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.

Peer-reviewed, scholarly, popular, and trade publications across business-related topics, including company information, accounting, business theory, economics, management, marketing and more from 1980 to present.

Offering more than 14,000 titles including peer-reviewed, scholarly, general interest, and trade publications on an array of topics including science & medicine, business, economics, literature, drama, politics, careers, technology, and more from 1980 to present.

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

Largest resource for access to articles from scholarly publications (some full text)

 Provides access to citations from 11 publications in the Intellect Fashion Collection

Source for the latest in intimate apparel fashion design, engineering and construction methods.

A material database with access to innovative, sustainable materials and technologies from 75+ industries.

New users may set up an account by clicking on “Log In” at the upper right corner and following the prompts. 

TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE DUE TO COVID: Material Connexion accommodates visits Monday through Friday from 4 – 6 pm. Click to book an appointment directly into their system.

 

Search multiple databases at the same time: All of the "Gale OneFile" options, "Gale eBooks" and "Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints."

Searches 8 Databases at once:

• Dissertations & Theses @ Fashion Institute of Technology‎
• The Harper's Bazaar Archive‎ (1867 - current)
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times‎ (1851 - 2014)
• The Vogue Archive‎ (1892-current)
• The Vogue Italia Archive‎ (1964 - current)
• The Wall Street Journal‎ (1984 - current)
• Women's Magazine Archive‎ (1846 - 2005)
• The Women's Wear Daily Archive‎ (1910-current)

Extensive cotton color swatch collections

Register for an account here using your FIT email. Select "Design Clients." 

In the Company field, enter "FIT," and for job title enter "FIT Student" or "FIT Faculty" 

You will receive an email from Sophicolor once your account has been approved.

 

 

 

 

SPARC Digital is a platform created by FIT's Special Collections and College Archives to showcase the rare and unique materials from our collections that have been digitized. Our goal is to make our collections more widely available online to the FIT community and the general public.

Coverage of scientific and technological aspects of textile production & processing.

This collection will bring together at completion over 1,200 hours of videos that retrace the history of fashion, clothing, and costume worldwide. Students and researchers can access a remarkable collection covering the major fashion weeks in Milan, Paris, New York and London, as well as Miami swim and New York bridal collections. Topical segments visit events like the Met's Costume Exhibits, CFDA Awards, and feature interviews with top designers, models, and celebrities of the fashion world.

Trend Council is a professional design tool widely used in the fashion industry to report on the latest and future; colors, materials, silhouettes and more. They offer clear and concise visualizations on the upcoming and latest trends for designers, print studios, textile companies and manufacturers.

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.

Contains every issue of Vogue Italia from 1964 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.

Trend reports & forecasting for fashion 

Students must create an account and re-activate their account every 90 days: click to re-activate account

 To access  WGSN Lifetyle & Interiors and WGSN Insight:

Consumer, marketing, retail, and innovation trends

Students must create an account and re-activate their account every 90 days: click to re-activate account

 To access  WGSN Insight:

Register for a WWD Digital Daily account using your FIT email address. Once registered, the daily edition of WWD will be sent to your email.

New registrations take 3-9 days to become active.

Access WWD Digital Daily through this WWD Digital Daily  link and not through WWD Online.

Reset your password using this link.

Full-text coverage of Woman’s Wear Daily from 1994 - current.

 

Contains images, 360 degree panoramas, and descriptions of physical and digital window displays in a real-time, searchable database of community-generated content that provides data on what retail environments look like around the world with coverage from 1931 to present.​
1. Visit ​WindowsWear
2. Click “Join now” on the top right
3. Select "Academic" on the right
4. Under "existing members" select "FIT"
5. Create profile
6. Under "get started" select "student" or "faculty"
7. Use your FIT email and create a password
8. Click "join"
You will need to login to WindowsWear after authenticating via the proxy to use the site. 

Contains an archive starting in 1883 to 2005 for eleven magazines typically marketed to women, with high-resolution color scans and feature detailed article-level indexing. Titles and specific coverage includes:

- Better Homes & Gardens (1922 - 2005)
- Chatelaine (1928 - 2005)
- Cosmopolitan (1926 - 2004)
- Essence (1970 - 2005)
- Good Housekeeping (1885 - 2005)
- Ladies’ Home Journal (1883 - 2005)
- Parents (1926 - 2005)
- Redbook (1903 - 2005)
- Seventeen (1944 - 2005)
- Women’s Day (1937-2005)
- Women’s International Network News (WIN News) (1975-2005) 

Full-text coverage of Woman’s Wear Daily from 1910 - current.