Fashion

High End

Kerry Taylor Auctions – “Specialists in antique, vintage fashion and textiles.”

Anderson & Sheppard

Henry Poole

George Cleverley & Co.

Beverley Birks Couture Collection – “One of the world’s largest collections of haute couture.”

Blogs

Ask Andy About Clothes

Bryanboy

ContessaNally

Counterfeit Chic – Susan Scafidi

Heard on the Runway – Wall Street Journal

On the Runway – New York Times

Tavi Says: Fashion Dictates from a fourteen-year old

Fashion Icons: Tavi Gevinson: New York Fashion Week With Tavi – Fashion Television

Business

CamalgOri – Milan

Catwalking

Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection – Search for textile, dress, designer name (Alix Stone)

Centre for Fashion Enterprise – London. “Londonâ€™s pioneering business incubator that supports and nurtures emerging fashion design talent.”

Colette – 213 rue Saint-HonorÃ©, Paris. “Style design art food”

Cosprop Ltd. – “One of the worldâ€™s leading costumiers to the film, theatre and television industries” founded in 1965 by John Bright, has an extensive stock of over 100,000 original, replica and reproduction costumes and accessories.

Costume Gallery – “Online complete period fashion publications, including articles, images, catalogs, and books.”

Chanel

Costume Society of Great Britain

Costumer’s Manifesto – Tara Maginnis

Dellamoda

Designers

Agnes B T Shirts

Alice & Olivia – New York

Hardy Amies

Aminaka Wilmont – Marcus Wilmont and Maki Aminaka LÃ¶fvander

Christopher Bailey – Burberry. See Technology and the Trenchcoat: Burberry Finds Its Future by Mining Its Past video interview by Suzy Menkes, International Herald Tribune / New York Times, November 11, 2010.

Coco Chanel Designs – Victoria & Albert Museum

Jasper Conran – London

Christophe Coppens – Tokyo. “An innovative milliner, Coppens boasts an oeuvre of witty headwear that has gained him fame at home, where he counts members of Belgiumâ€™s royal family as clients, as well as further afield.” (“Mad as a Hatter, Charlotte Vaudrey, Frame Magazine, Nov/Dec 2006)

André Courréges – Paris

Alessandro Dell’Acqua

Diesel

Collette Dinnigan – Australian designer

Dior

Dolce & Gabbana

Duckie Brown

Eleykishimoto Ellesse

Engineered Garments – Daiki Suzuki’s menswear line.

Nicole Farhi – London

Bruno Frisoni – Shoes.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Nicolas Ghesquiere – Designs for Balenciaga

Elspeth Gibson

Romeo Gigli

Gina Shoes

Marithe and Francois Girbaud

Georgina Goodman

Josh Goot

Martin Grant

Rogan Gregory – The goal of his Edun line “is to create beautiful clothing while fostering sustainable employment in developing areas of the world.”

Louise Gray – London

Gucci

Anna Gulmann – Copenhagen

Alexandre Herchovitch

Joanne Hynes – Officially launched in October 2003. Joanne Hynes graduated in 2001 with an MA in Womenswear from Londonâ€™s Central Saint Martins College.

Peter Jensen – London

Eun Jeong

Jean-Claude Jitrois – Paris.

Betsey Johnson

Stephen Jones Millinery

Wolfgang Joop,

Kaliyana – Karina Ackert.

Donna Karan

Dice Kayek

Kelly B Couture -“Organic cotton: cotton grown, processed, and produced without the use of pesticides and other toxic chemicals.”

Jens Laugesen – London

Mads Norgaard – Copenhagen

Malo

Isabel Marant

Catherine Malandrino

LF Markey – Louise Markey

Marni

Hannah Marshall

Joanna Mastroianni

Toni Maticevski – Australian

Meadham Kirchhoff – Edward Meadham and Benjamin Kirchhoff

J. Mendel

Carlos Miele

Michael Michalsky – Berlin

Anna Molinari – Blufin, Blugirl, Blumarine

Moncler

Roland Mouret

Munthe plus Simonsen – Copenhagen

Rag & Bone – New York

Christian Francis Roth –

Rupert Sanderson Shoes

Fausto Sarli

Proenza Schouler – Lazaro Hernandez and Jack McCollough

Raf Simons – Jil Sander

Af Vandervorst – Belgium

Diane von Furstenberg

DolceVita: Fashion – Italian fashion

fashion Resources

Espace Textile

FabricLink – “Web resource for fabrics and textiles.”

Fairchild Books – Source for books and visuals for the fashion, apparel, textiles, and retail industries.

Fashion Calendar – “

Fashiondex – the Apparel Industry Sourcing Site

Fashion Net

Fashion Television Channel

FashionUnited – Fashion news

Fashion Week Daily

Festival Mode and Design – Montreal. Held in August

Fabric Material

Forecasting

The Future Laboratory – London. “recognised internationally for its innovative approach to trend forecasting, consumer insight and brand strategy.”

Kurt Salmon Associates – Apparel consulting firm

McCann Erickson – Ad agency. Tom Julian is director of trends.

NPD Group – Market reserach firm located in Port Washington. Marshal Cohen is the chief industry analyst.

Tobe Report – “International fashion and retail consulting service.”

WGSN – Worth Global Style Network. “World’s leading online research, trend analysis and news service for the fashion and style industries.”

From Paris to Providence: Fashion, Art, and The Tirocchi Dressmakers Shop, 1915-1947

George Grantham Bain Collection – “Photographic files of one of America’s earliest news picture agencies. The collection richly documents sports events, theater, celebrities, crime, strikes, disasters, political activities including the woman suffrage campaign, conventions and public celebrations. The photographs Bain produced and gathered for distribution through his news service were worldwide in their coverage, but there was a special emphasis on life in New York City. The bulk of the collection dates from the 1900s to the mid-1920s, but scattered images can be found as early as the 1860s and as late as the 1930s.” Fashion-related examples include:

Trouser skirt, Paris

Pantallon gown, Los Angeles (1911)

Fridolyn Gimbel, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front

Ice-skaters on ice in Tuxedo Park, New York

Head and shoulders of model wearing “Chanticleer” hat of bird feathers (ca. 1912)

Women’s fashions: Fall fashion, 1913

Women’s fashions: Paris fashion, May 1911: fur and plumed hat

Women’s fashions: black faille gown by Lanvin (November 1915)

Women’s fashions: Poiret check suit (1914)

Fashions at Trouville (1913)

At Rockaway Hunt Meet — fashion mannekins

Glam

Harper’s Bazar Magazine – “Online collection of 19th Century articles, illustrations, and Victorian fashions taken directly from the 19th Century magazine, Harper’s Bazar (C.1867-1900).”

History of Costume – By Braun & Schneider – c.1861-1880

Infomat – “Fashion industry information services and search engine since 1996.”

Intute: Fashion & Beauty – Searchable database of arts & humanities web sites has a sizable annotated section of fashion resources.

Jessamyn’s Regency Costume Companion – David and Jessamyn Reeves-Brown.

Kamkyl – Menswear designed by Yvonne and Douglas Mandel, Montreal

Kyoto National Museum

Online Database – Contains 2,000 of over 5,000 works owned by the museum, searchable by keyword or category. A search for kimono yields over 200 results, with images. A category search for textiles yields over 900 results.

The Ladies: A Journal of the Court, Fashion and Society (1872) – Weekly London newspaper “offering scientifically precise fashion advice and demanding political rights for women”. Virginia H. Cope, University of Virginia English Department.

LeRage.com

Look On-Line – “Who, what, where, and why, of New York Fashion.” You can watch videos of fashion reports by Marilyn Kirschner and the hear interviews in the American Master of Fashion series (Ralph Rucci, Bill Cunningham, Elsa Klensch, Arthur Elgort).

Lucire

Madeleine Vionnet – “Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) is recognized as one of the greatest dressmaker of the twentieth century”.

Libraries

Leslie Russell (1943 – ) – Hairdresser. He talks about Barbara Hulanicki.

Percy Savage (1926 – ) – Fashion PR and consultant

Manny Silverman – Fashion consultant. Interviewed by Anna Dyke 29 July 2005.

Lily Silberberg (1929 – ) – Pattern Cutter

Harvard University Library Open Collections Program – Among the digitzed catalogs in the full-text collection are:

Abercrombie & Fitch. 1913 styles – “Out-of-Door Clothes for Fastidious Women”. Digitized version of the 32 page 1913 catalog

Allen, Brock & Smith, Inc. (1913) – Women’s shoes

United Shirt and Collar Co. Catalogue of ladies’ collar and cuffs, chemisettes, cape and sailor collars [ca. 1900] – Troy, New York

Warner Brothers (1894) – Corsets

Jordan, Marsh and Company (1885)

B. Altman & Co. (1879-1880) – Full-text of the following catalogues: No. 34 (fall and winter, 1879/1880), No. 54 (fall and winter, 1886/1887), No. 116 (spring and summer, 1917) and Nov. 1926

Bea McPherson, KSU Museum and Fashion School Papers, 1978-1988

Shannon Rodgers and Jerry Silverman, Papers, 1825-1996 [1959-1994]

Library of Congress Catalog – Use the following subject headings:

Library of Congress Podcasts

Library of Congress Webcasts

For the Eyes of the Dear Leader: Fashion and Body Politics in North Korean Visual Arts – Lecture by Suk-Young Kim, 06/27/2007 (76 minutes)

Watsonline – Catalog of the libraries of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, including the The Irene Lewisohn Costume Reference Library, “one of the world’s foremost fashion libraries. Its collection includes approximately 30,000 noncirculating monographs, rare books, and periodicals, as well as design archives, sketchbooks, photographs, drawings, prints, and extensive files of clippings pertaining to the history and study of the arts of adornment throughout the world. The library maintains 50 current fashion periodical subscriptions, including a wide range of international magazines and scholarly journals.”

Worldcat

Magazines

Firstview – Fashion publication with tens of thousands of photos of the latest collections (portions of the site are for subscribers only)

CondÃ© Nast Publications

Costume

Daily News Record (DNR) – Fairchild Publications men’s fashion magazine

Elle

Elle – French version

Esquire: Style

Glamour

Glamour – Italian version

Hint Fashion Magazine

New Yorker Magazine – Provides full-text access to selected articles including:

The Next Generation of Fashion – “On Saturday, October 4th [2008], Judith Thurman hosted a panel with Louise Markey, Makoto Takada, and Joeri Van Yper. Here is a full-length video of the panel.”

The Shoot: How Mert and Marcus make everyone look magnificent (Letter from Ibiza) by Nick Paumgarten, September 27, 2004, about the photographers Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott.

World Style – Fashion magazine

Medici Archive Project: History of Costume and Textiles – Johns Hopkins University

Men Style – CondÃ© Nast

Metrofashion

Milieux: the Costume Site – Lauren Podolak’s collection of “”online costuming sources for historical, science fiction & fantasy costumers.”

MiniMidiMaxi: Canadian Fashion Stage

Moda Online – Italian fashion

Model Agencies

Boss Models

Elite Model Management

Ford Models

DNA Model Management

IMG Models

Major Model Management

Marilyn Agency

New York Model Management

Next Models

Next Models USA

Trump Model Management

Wilhelmina Models

Museums

Les Arts DÃ©coratifs – Paris

Brooklyn Museum of Art

Ethnology Collection:

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

National Design Awards

Costume Museum of Canada

Design Musuem – London

Matthew Williamson: 10 Years in Fashion

Tim Walker: Pictures

Manolo Blahnik exhibit

Fashion Museum – Bath (UK)

Style and Status: Imperial Costumes from Ottoman Turkey

Gathering the Jewels / Casglu’r Tlysau – “Over 20,000 images of objects, books, letters, aerial photographs and other items from museums, libraries and record offices in Wales.” Fashion-related images include:

Fashion plate from ‘Weldon’s Ladies’ Journal, Portfolio of Fashions’, c. 1935

Fashion plate from ‘Coming Fashions’, March 1930

Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute – New York

Collection Connection – “About 70 percent of the collection in an electronic collection registration system. Digital photographs were made of about 60 percent of the collection.”

Library – Has an online catalog

Robe “Delphos” Ã tunique courte – Venise, Mariano Fortuny, vers 1920-1930

Madame Charles-Pierre PÃ©coul (1784) – Jacques-Louis David. “Les dÃ©tails de la robe en satin, ornÃ©e de fines dentelles, sont transcrits avec minutie.”

Museum of Costume – Bath, U.K.

Museum of Modern Art – New York

Contemporary Japanese Textiles: Structure and Surface – November 12, 1998-January 26, 1999.

National Museum of American History – Division of Home and Community Life

Hispanic Designers

Men’s Clothing and Accessories: Selected References

Nederlands Textielmuseum – Dutch Textile Museum, Tilburg

Royal Ontario Museum

Au Courant: Contemporary Canadian Fashion Designer Files

San Diego Museum of Art

Dragon Robes of China’s Last Dynasty

National Museums of Scotland

– Has a database of “images, audio clips, video clips and 3D environments.” Search for such terms as European Costume, Dress, woman’s, tartan, Scottish Crafts Collection, Jersey, knitted, Fashion plates, etc.

Victoria & Albert Museum – London

Fashion, Jewellery & Accessories

Fashion Reading Lists.

1960s Fashion and Textiles

3D Fashion

Names

Hilary Alexander – London Telegraph

Bridget Foley – Executive editor of WWD. See See 100 Years of WWD Q & A with Bridget Foley, in Eric Wilson’s blog, On the Runway, New York Times, November 1, 2010. “In Hollywood, everyone is so afraid of being trashed. Everyone dresses not for the biggest event one can imagine, but for a mass television audience. That may be good for the houses to have their brands radiate across the globe, but I donâ€™t think itâ€™s really good for fashion. I am dying for someone to show up on a red carpet in one of Raf Simonsâ€™s T-shirts and skirts with a peplum. I mean, how gorgeous?”

Michael Roberts – Fashion and style director, Vanity Fair

Carine Roitfeld – Editor, French Vogue. See The Anti-Anna

Guy Trebay – New York Times

Anna Wintour – Editor, Vogue. See Just Asking: Anna Wintour: A Tastemaker in a Changing Time, an onterview by Rachel Dodes with Anna Wintour, Wall Street Journal, February 14, 2009. “I don’t think anyone is going to want to look overly flashy, overly glitzy, too Dubai, whatever you want to call it. I just don’t think that’s the moment. But I do feel an emphasis on quality and longevity and things that really last.”

National Textile Center University Research Consortium – Auburn, Clemson, Cornell, Georgia Tech, North Carolina State, Philadelphia University, University of California at Davis, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth

Natural Fibers Research and Information Center – Offers several searchable databases.

Rethinking Fashion: Fast Life, Slow Fashion: A New Theory of Fashion

Rethinking Fashion: Challenges and Solutions in Sustainability – November 5, 2007

Rethinking Fashion: The Corporate Conscience – October 23, 2007.

Net-a-Porter – Fashion website founded by Natalie Massenet in 2000 sells more than 50 luxury brands.

News

Apparel News

Business of Fashion

Esquire: Style

Financial Times: Fashion

Courrier International

International Herald Tribune: Style & Design – Look for articles by Suzy Menkes

New York Times

New York Times Fashion & Style

New York Times Style Magazine

Fashion Shows

Times Topics: Fashion and Apparel

Wall Street Journal – More and more of the WSJ articles are now available free to non-subscribers. Below is a selection of recent free fashion-related articles:

The Boomer Balancing Act: Retailers say new looks for middle-age women are both youthful and mature by Teri Agins, Wall Street Journal, November 3-4, 2007.

“Does This Shirt Make Me Look Too American?” – By Ray A. Smith, Wall Street Journal, August 18-19, 2007. “For men shopping for dress shirts, it can also mean squeezing into a tighter fit. British shirts are cut closer to the body: A “classic fit” Charles Tyrwhitt shirt fits the way an American brand’s “slim fit” shirt would. British shirts tend to have spread collars, compared to the long, pointy versions on many American shirts. They also come in less conservative colors, with unusual shades like orange and pistachio, and bold patterns of checks and plaids that can seem loud by American office standards.”

Washington Post: Style

World Global Style Network

Organizations

L’Association Nationale pour le DÃ©veloppement des Arts de la Mode (ANDAM) – French Culture Ministry association formed to support and promote young designers by providing grants to help them launching their own labels.

Association pour le developpement des arts de la mode

British Fashion Council – “Owns and organises London Fashion Week and the British Fashion Awards.”

Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana – Governing trade group for Italian fashion and organizer of Milan Fashion Week.

Costume Designers Guild

Council of Fashion Designers, Tokyo

Flanders Fashion Institute

Moda In – “Established in 1984 by the Italian Textile Association and the Italian Federation of Various Textiles and Hat Manufacturers to promote Italian and European textiles throughout the world.”

La Mode FranÃ§aise – 3,000-page on-line directory published monthly in French and English listing every name, address and event in fashion (labels, companies, museums, trade shows, etc).

National Retail Federation

National Textile Association

Paris Music Hall Collection – Costume designs and curtain designs for the music halls of Paris from 1920-1938 owned by the Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library at the University of Georgia.

Paris Voice

Peclers Paris – Agence de style internationale.

Photo Paris Mode

Photographers

Bill Cunningham – New York Times photographer known for On the Street candids

Life Photo Archive – Hosted by Google. Some examples of searches:

Hermes Dresses – Photographs by Gordon Parks

Boots Fashion – Photographs by Paul Schutzer

Dior – Photographs by Nina Leen.

French Fashion Models

Here are some striking images:

Staley-Wise Gallery – “Established in 1981 in Soho, the Staley-Wise Gallery opened with an exhibition of Horst photographs and continues to show the work of masters of fashion photography.”

Victoria & Albert Images

Amy Arbus

Richard Avedon

Bill Cunningham – New York Times photographer known for On the Street candids

Louise Dahl-Wolfe (1895-1989) – See the Louise Dahl-Wolfe Collection Finding Aid at the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona.

Patrick Demarchelier

John French (1906-1966) – There are hundreds of his photographs in Victoria & Albert: Images

Reference

From Concept to Consumer – By Gini Stephens Prings, Prentice Hall, 1999, 6th edition. Fashion, the clothing trade and fashion merchandising. “Domestic shoe production has declined so that there are only 379 manufacturers operating 461 plants in the United Slates with employment at approximately 48,200. The small amount of domestic shoe production left primarily of men’s shoes, is done in New England and the Midwest. These firms include better classic men’s shoes such as Johnston & Murphy, Allen-Edmonds, Cole-Haan, and Alden and moderate shoe lines such as Florsheim, Bass, Dexter, and Bostonians. In the future, it seems that weaker firms will continue to close while stronger ones will consolidate plants, invest in new technology to narrow the gap between foreign and U.S. labor costs.”

Vocabulary of Basic Terms for Cataloguing Costume – ICOM International Committee for the Museums and Collections of Costume.

Schools

Academy of Art University – San Francisco

Bunka Fashion College – Tokyo

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design – London

Domus Academy – Milan

Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) – Los Angeles, San Franciso, San Diego and Orange County

Fashion Institute of Technology – New York

Fashion School at Kent State University

Institut FranÃ§ais de la Mode (IFM) – Paris

Istituto Marangoni – Milan

Kent State University School of Fashion Design and Merchandising

London College of Fashion

Otis College of Art and Design – Los Angeles

Parsons the New School for Design – New York

Polimoda – Florence

Rhode Island School of Design – Providence, Rhode Island

Royal Academy of Fine Arts – Antwerp

Savannah College of Art and Design – Savannah, Georgia

Shows

British Vogue Fashion Shows

Dublin Fashion Week

ENK International Trade Shows – The Fashion Coterie show is held in September.

Fashion Footwear Association of New York – December.

Fashion Shows – New York Magazine

Festival Mode and Design – Montreal in August. (Place Ville Marie).

International Shoe Fair – Düsseldorf.

London Fashion Week – Organized by the British Fashion Council.

Men’s Apparel Guild In California (MAGIC)

Mercedes Benz Fashion Week

MICAM – International shoe fair held in March and September in Milan.

New York Magazine: Fashion Shows

New York Times: Fashion Shows

Pitti Immagine uomo – Men’s wear trade show held each January in Florence

Premiere Vision Preview: New York

Style.com: Fashion Shows – You can view collections.

World Shoe Association Show – February in Las Vegas.

ShopVogue

Amber Collection

Damson Collection

Stardoll – Dress up virtual paper dolls. Choose from hundreds of personalities including:

3D Body Scanner – “Cornell researchers are using a body scanner to study the complex problems of clothing design and fit.”

Universities

Drexel Historic Costume Collection – Searchable database of archival data and detailed graphics for the physical collections housed in the Nesbitt College of Design Arts and the Drexel Museum, Drexel University, Philadelphia.

Harvard Center for Textile and Apparel Research (HCTAR)

Tirocchi Dressmakers Project – Based on the Rhode Island School of Design Museum exhbition From Paris to Providence: Fashion, Art, and The Tirocchi Dressmakers Shop, 1915-1947.

Twentieth Century Design: Ethnic Influences – By Belinda T. Orzada, apparel designer and Assistant Professor in the Department of Consumer Studies at the University of Delaware.

Vintage

Allan and Suzi

Elle W Collection – 864 Lexington Ave., New York, NY

Encore Resale – 1132 Madison Ave., New York City (212 879-2850)

Fashiondig

INA – New York. Four locations: Soho:101 Thompson St. (212.941.4757); Nolita: 21 Prince St. Between Mott and Elizabeth (212.334.9048); Uptown: 208 E 73 St. Between 2nd and 3rd (212.249.0014); and Soho Men: 262 Mott St. Between Prince and Houston (212.334.2210).

Kerry Taylor Auctions – quot;Specialists in antique, vintage fashion and textiles.quot;

Michael’s: the Consignment Shop for Women – 1041 Madison Ave., New York City (212-737-7273)

RustyZipper

VintageVixen

Visual Arts Data Service – Based at the Surrey Institute of Art & Design, it provides access to image databases from the London College of Fashion, the Design Council Archive and several other collections.

Vogue TV – “Exclusive fashion videos of catwalk shows, designer parties and front row experts.” Expert views from such fashion notables as Harriet Quick, Anna Bromilow, Alexandra Shulman, Lucinda Chambers, Liz Thody, Vanessa Gillingham.

Wall Street Journal: Fashion Video

When the Girls Came Out to Play: The Birth of American Sportswear by Patricia Campbell Warner, professor, theater, UMASS Amherst, February 15, 2007.

Wire Image: Fashion

Woolmark Company

Wrapped in Pride: Ghanaian Kente and African American Identity – Smithsonian Institution. "Kente is made by the Asante and Ewe peoples and is the best known of all African textiles."

YouTube – Search by designer name and Spring or Fall, for example Marni Spring Summer 2007

ZooZoom Fashion Magazine

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