Fashion & Accessory Design

E-books,scholarly articles, extensive image collection including 1400+ selections from CoPA (Commercial Pattern Archive 1868 to 2000), fashion museum directory.

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

• Register an account as "student" or "staff"
• Include Fashion Institute of Technolgy 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.

Full-text coverage of DAZED magazine from 1991-current

Trend reports & forecasting for fashion. 

Available on-campus only

New users must request an account -- send an email to EDITED via support@edited.com 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.

FITDIL is an Internet-based digital repository database of approximately 64,000 digital images intended for both research and instructional use by FIT students and faculty. Limited access for guest users.

 

 

Images ranging from runway and backstage to street-style fashion, and from key designers’ shows from the last forty years.

 

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).

 

This collection includes over 1,200 hours of videos that retrace the history of fashion, clothing, and costume worldwide, covering the major fashion weeks in Milan, Paris, New York and London, as well as Miami swim and New York bridal collections.

Search multiple databases at the same time.

E-books with quick info on a variety of topics.

Trade publications and scholarly articles, 1983 - current.

General-audience, trade publication, and scholarly articles on a wide range of subjects, 1980 - current.

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

 

 

 

 

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

 

Material Connexion accommodates visits Monday through Friday from 4 – 6 pm. Click to book an appointment directly into their system.

 

Firefox must be used - database does not work in other browsers

1. Visit the website through our Library database page

2. Create an individual account on Peclers(+) using your FIT email

3. Check your FIT email for your activation link from Peclers(+)

4.  Log in with using your Peclers(+) account after authentication through our databases to access the service

 

Use this link to reset your password

Search multiple databases at the same time.

Searching eLibrary Elementary, Gannett Newsstand Complete, New York Times Historical (1851-2009),Vogue Archive, Wall Street Journal (1984 - current) at the same time

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.

Scholarly and general articles

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.

 Available on-campus only

Every issue from 1892-Current, including articles, ads, editorial content

 

Trend reports & forecasting for fashion 

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

Articles 1994 - present, full text issues in PDF format, directory, runway photos, videos etc. Includes FN (footwear) DNR (menswear) Beauty Inc. and other Fairchild publications. More limited free version available.

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"

· 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)

 

 

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