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Welcome to the fashion research guide! Using the left navigation, you'll find advice on where and how to find resources specific to this discipline. Remember you can always contact flaxman@saic.edu if you need any help.

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Consider these databases as best bets when doing your fashion research.

FOR ARTICLES, READINGS + IMAGES

Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
Integrated text and image content on world dress and fashion throughout history. Includes the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, ebooks, an image bank, and more.
Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
Browseable and searchable content from the American fashion magazine Vogue, including covers. 1892 to the present.
Women's Wear Daily Archive This link opens in a new window
Definitive fashion and retail publication providing primary source material for fashion, business, history and the development of the fashion industry over the twentieth & twenty-first centuries. 1910 to the present.
Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library This link opens in a new window
1,200 hours of vivid video capturing the many faces of fashion—including nearly 40 years of worldwide fashion shows, designer profiles, and documentary segments.