Research Guides: Fashion Design: History

Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive

Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive
Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive exhibits almost 3,000 fashion shows presented in Paris, London, New York, and Milan by 460 international designers, and covers the period 1979 to 2003. Each video features extensive indexing and captioning to enable search, browse, and enhanced discoverability.

Bloomsbury Fashion Central
Provides cross-searchable access to interdisciplinary text and image content on world dress and fashion. Includes e-books, reference works, images, and more.

The Greenword Encyclopedia of Clothing through World History
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference GT507 .G74 2008
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Clothing through American History 1900 to Present
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference GT615 .G74 2008
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Costume and Fashion: From 1066 to the Present
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference GT730 .C37 2006
In an Influential Fashion: An Encyclopedia of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Fashion Designers and Retailers Who Transformed Dress
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference TT505.A1 I5 2002
Contemporary Fashion
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference TT505.A1 C66 2002
More than 400 designers, milliners, footwear designers, companies and textile houses.
Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion
Call Number: Cabell Library Reference GT507 .E53 2005
Over 600 articles on fashion, the industry, and the issues that have defined the field.
3 volumes
The Fairchild Books Dictionary of Fashion
Call Number: Reference (1st floor) TT503 .C34 2014
Over 15,000 entries, including apparel, accessories, and their components, historical and textiles terms that relate to contemporary fashion and the language of the fashion industry.