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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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- 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"
-On the BoF home page click "join now"
-Scroll down just a bit and click on "Are you a student? Activate complimentary access."
-Include Fashion Institute of Technology as your school
-Enter name of a course you are taking or teaching
-Add your graduation date
-You will be asked to re-validate your email address each year.
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.
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.
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).
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
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.
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.
FIT Library-created index to textile industry newsletters.
Temporarily unavailable.
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:
- login via the proxy and then with your WGSN username and password
- select the part of the site you wish to use from the top menu under "Fashion"
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:
- login via the proxy and then with your WGSN username and password
- select the part of the site you wish to use from the top menu under "Fashion"
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.
Full-text coverage of Woman’s Wear Daily from 1994 - current.
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)