Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and clothing.
The peer-reviewed content includes reference works, articles, e-books, business cases, bibliographic guides, thousands of images from the world's most famous museums, teaching and research resources.
The platform includes: Berg Fashion Library, Fairchild Books Library, Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases, Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive and Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library.
We are pleased to offer you the opportunity to fully access all these collections until 30th of April!
Berg, on the other hand, is a permanent resource, which IED has been subscribed to since July 2023.
Through Bloomsbury Fashion Central you will therefore be able to consult these new and interesting resources:
Fashion Business Cases: a digital resource that presents real-life cases on the challenges facing the fashion business, covering important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics and leadership;
Fairchild Books Library: contains more than 150 texts and multimedia resources ranging from the study of the fashion industry to journalism, marketing, styling, textiles, sustainable fashion;
Fashion Video Archive: in collaboration with YOOX-NET-A-PORTER, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive is an archive of almost 3,000 fashion shows presented in Paris, London, New York and Milan by 460 international designers and covers the period from 1979 to 2003;
Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library: the first comprehensive online collection for the interdisciplinary study of the history, design and making of dress and costume;
Fashion Photography Archive: Curated by editor-in-chief Valerie Steele, director of the FIT Museum in New York, this resource showcases more than 775,000 newly digitized, high-quality images featuring forty years of contemporary fashion history.
You can access the resources on site by clicking on the links we have inserted above for each resource.
Happy browsing!