The Articles of Interest podcast covers a broad range of concepts including the rise of casual wear, the environmental impact of the textile industry and why womenswear doesn’t have pockets. Together, the episodes link thematically, each one to the next, like a daisy chain. Think of it as a podcast concept album … on clothes.
A decade-by-decade history of fashion as a lively and dynamic manifestation of twentieth-century culture. Covers the chronological changes in womenswear, menswear, and childrenswear, and looks at the dissemination of style and the mechanisms of change,at the relationship between fashion and the visual, applied, and performing arts, the intertwined relationship between fashion and popular culture, the impact of new materials and technology, and the growing globalization of style. (Also in print: GT596 .C65 2015)
Provides cross-searchable access to interdisciplinary text and image content on world dress, fashion and textiles. Includes e-books, reference works, images, and more.
An open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe. The Timeline website offers well-researched, accessibly written entries on specific artworks, garments and films for those interested in fashion and dress history. Created by art history faculty and students at FIT.
Outlines the social and cultural history of fashion thematically, and contains a wide range of global case studies on key designers, styles, movements and events.
Feature concise essays with profiles of the key designers, break-out stories about the most avant-garde projects and interviews with the leading lights of the art-fashion crossover phenomenon.
Menswear Revolution investigates the transformation of men’s fashion through the lens of shifting masculinities, examining how its increasing diversity has created new ways for men to explore and express their identities.
Visit the Diversity in Fashion page on the Fashion Design Research Guide for resources that include various perspectives such as non-Western, BIPOC, and queer. Featured Resource: The Fashion & Race Database - Centering and amplifying marginalized voices in fashion, illuminating under-examined histories, and addressing racism throughout the fashion system.
Adobe Creative Cloud Express is an easy-to-use graphic design software that empowers users to quickly create images, web pages and videos. (Log in with your VCU eID for access)
The History of Modern Fashion
A Cultural History of Fashion in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Art/Fashion in the 21st Century
Menswear Revolution: The Transformation of Contemporary Men’s Fashion
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