Fashion

• Background Information
• Journal & Article Indexes
• Citation and Style Guides

• Web Collections
• Textiles
• Fashion Designers

Quickly find books or videos by searching our Library Catalogue using keywords, titles or authors.


Sample Subject Searches:

• Clothing and Dress
• Textiles
• Dressmaking
• Clothing factories
• Clothing trade
• Costume
• Pattern Design
• Fashion designers
• Fashion drawing
• Fashion history
• Fashion merchandising
• Fashion social aspects
• Men's clothing
• Sewing

• TT 490-695 Clothing Trade
• GT 530-560 Costume History to 500
• GT 575 Costume History Medieval 500-1500
• GT 583-596 Costume History 16-20 century
• GT 500-2370 & TT 490-695 Fashion
• TT 500-678 Garment cutting
• TS 1300-1782 Textile industries

• Art Index
• ARTstor
• Oxford Art Online
• Business Source Premier

• Academic Search Premier
• Canadian Business and Current Affairs CBCA (Business)
• Canadian Newsstand
• Canadian Periodical Index (CPI.Q)
• JSTOR

Fashion Journals

• Kwantlen's Fashion Journal Collection - For print versions you will find the phrase "Kwantlen Polytechnic University Print Journals after the title and a notation stating which campus it is on. The titles of the electronic versions are followed by a link to the article index which will open the journal directly. If you're not sure if a journal is scholarly (often called "academic" or "peer-reviewed"), look at our checklist.

• Beverley Birks Couture & Accessories Collection also includes examples of early 19th century fashion prints taken from Journal des Dames et des Modes
• La Couturiere Parisienne - period costume, from the Middle Ages up to the early 20th century including rococo fashion and patterns from the mid-nineteenth century.
• The Museum of Costume of Bath, England provides a link to the Dress of the Year collection beginning in 1963.
• The Victoria and Albert Museum Fashion Jewelry, and Accessories Collection covers fashionable dress from the 17th century to the present day
• The Costumer's Manifesto is the most comprehensive website of its kind, an on-line version of the History of Fashion and Dress
• Bata Shoe Museum
• Solemates: the Century in Shoes
• Ling Lung Women's Magazine: Shanghai, 1931 to 1937 A collection of 417 searchable images from nineteenth-century fashion journals (1806-1914), organized by stylistic period

• British Vogue - daily news & blogs
• Designers Connect: An Independent Fashion Source for Toronto, Vancouver, Montreal and New York
• London Fashion Week
• New York Times - Fashion & Style
• Style.com
• Women's Wear Daily

Sites

• Intute:best of the web - Fashion
• Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising : Kool Connections - Industry Links
• Sourcing the Muse : The journeys of eight Australian fashion designers from inspiration to creation
• Behind the Label
• London College of Fashion
• Design for a Living World [Flash Player] http://www.nature.org/design/ The Nature Conservancy commissioned high-profile designers such as Isaac Mizrahi, Kate Spade, and others to produce textiles, furniture, jewelry, handbags, and decorative objects that were sustainable and used materials and methods from local craftspeople around the world.

• Anya Hindmarch
• Balenciaga
• Betsy Johnson
• Chanel
• Donna Karan
• Helmut Lang
• Issey Miyake
• Lanvin
• Alexander McQueen
• Prada
• Yves Saint Laurent
• Paul Smith
• Elie Tahari
• Dries Van Noten
• Vivienne Westwood

• Allison Wonderland
• Aritzia
• Catherine Regehr
• Cheri Milaney
• Dorothy Grant
• Jason Matlo
• Lululemon
• Maiwa
• Mustang Survival
• Obakki
• Roxanne Nikki
• Sugoi
• Zonda Nellis

• APA - American Psychological Assoc. guidelines
• MLA - Modern Language Assoc. standards

TIP: Don't believe everything you read! Evaluate web sources very carefully for their accuracy, authority, and currency. Here are some evaluation criteria to help you

• American Apparel & Footwear Association
• Apparel BC
• Canadian Apparel Federation
• Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA) .
• Internet Centre for Canadian Fashion & Design
• International Textile and Apparel Association - the Global Organization of Textile and Apparel Scholars
• Sewn Products Equipment Suppliers Association