Research Guides: FASH 303: Design Theory and Illustration: Home

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Print Fashion Magazines

Browse print fashion magazines for inspiration.

Find them on the 1st floor of Cabell Library at the back of the stacks near Starbucks, arranged alphabetically by title rather than by subject like the books.

Fashion magazines in print include:

Collezioni
Elle
Harper's Bazaar
L'Uomo Vogue
Textile View
Vogue
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Art Browsery

Look. Learn. Create.
Visit the Art Browsery on the 4th floor of Cabell Library to see a selection of new visually rich books available for checkout.

Arts Research Librarian

Carla-Mae Crookendale

(she/her)

Contact:

cmcrookendale@vcu.edu
(804) 827-0367
Cabell Library, Room 121-L

Subjects: Arts, Performing, Arts, Visual

WGSN

WGSN (Worth Global Style Network)
Focusing on the areas and intersections of fashion, style, and commerce, WGSN provides a global view on trends in design. Its archive contains millions of images from the runways, the street, retail outlets, and design sketches.

Use WGSN to browse for:

Apparel companies specializing in prints
Prints & Graphics trends
Color trends
Color Library & Original Artwork

Company Research Resources

Plunkett Research Online
Analysis and market research for important industry sectors. Includes trend analysis, statistics, organizations, company profiles, information for job-seekers, and ability to create custom reports.
Dow Jones Factiva
Comprehensive, full-text up-to-the-minute news and business source from Dow Jones and Reuters. Includes national, international, and regional newspapers, both current content and archives, periodicals, podcasts, newswires, and more.
Data Axle
Data Axle, formerly ReferenceUSA, provides research on businesses including data summaries by neighborhood, city or state and by type or size of business. Users can conduct market research for similar or competitive businesses in a specific locality.
PrivCo
Business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family-owned, private equity-owned, venture-backed, and international unlisted companies.
Business Source Complete
Bibliographic and full-text content from peer-reviewed business journals, covering all disciplines of business including marketing, management, accounting, banking, finance, and more.
ABI/INFORM Complete
Abstracts, full-text journals and periodicals on business, finance, and management topics. Includes all content in ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Dateline, and ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry. Includes full-text access to The Wall Street Journal.

Company Research Guide
More resources for researching a company.
Doing Company Research: A Resource Guide (Library of Congress)
This guide is designed to give someone searching for company information a place to start with a few ideas and strategies for finding company information.

Company Research Tip

Research Tip: Look up a company's corporate website for additional information (e.g. Gap Inc.).

Pattern & Color Research

Use the guides linked below to research color and pattern:

Browsing for Books

Use these call numbers to browse for books at the Cabell Library:

GT 500-2370 (1st Floor) -- Costume and Fashion; pattern books, history, terminology
NK 1160-1590 (3rd Floor) -- Decorative Arts. Decoration and Ornament. Design
NK 8800-9505.5 (3rd Floor) -- Textile history and design
TS 1300-4865 (4th Floor) -- Textile industry, fibers and machinery
TT 500-695 (4th Floor) -- Fashion: designers, dictionaries, handbooks, patterns, and more