Many databases include articles and information about clothing, costume and fashion history. Many, but not all of the relevant resources can be found under the term Art & Architecture in the Library of Congress Electronic Resources Online Catalog.
Some of the articles will be available in full-text formats, and others will require searching the Library of Congress Online Catalog to determine if the Library owns the journal or publication. For older titles, you may need to consult the Main Card Catalog, which is the authority for items published prior to 1980; many older items may be listed in the Online Catalog.
The subscription resources marked with a padlock are available to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress. If you are unable to visit the Library, you may be able to access these resources through your local public or academic library.
Accompanying the wealth of images in the Archive are more than 200 articles specially commissioned for the site. The last 30 years of fashion history are diverse and fascinating. These articles cover a range of topics, and they give detailed overviews of the fashion cities, catwalk shows, textiles, and beyond. More than 100 biographies are available for all Bloomsbury Fashion Central users and provide the perfect starting point for any fashion topic.
The career of Niall McInerney, the photographer of the Fashion Photography Archive, crossed four decades. The giant selection of images in the Fashion Photography Archive reflects the variety of shows, designers, supermodels, and celebrities that he captured during this time. In a series of short videos, Steele interviews him about what it was like to photograph catwalk shows, back stage, and street style -- and asks him for his insight into the shows of some of the world's best known designers.
Widely regarded as an authority in the fashion world, its focus has been on cultivating an elegant and sophisticated aesthetic for an affluent readership. The Harpers Bazaar Archive includes every page---including every advertisement---of every issue since its first issue in 1867. All pages are presented in full color and high resolution, and are fully searchable. All editorial content and pictorial features are captured as separate documents to allow for easy search and discovery. For advertisements, the featured company and brand names have been assigned to the document records where possible, and all image captions are captured to a high degree of accuracy, allowing precise retrieval of photographs and illustrations. Contributor names that appear in image credits are also indexed. This archive database provides a wealth of information to researchers and students interested in fashion, beauty, style, gender, and material culture over the past century and a half. Subject coverage includes: Fashion Arts Culture Style Travel Design Retail Beauty Marketing Advertising Gender Women's Studies.
Issues are reproduced from cover to cover in high-resolution color and presented in page image format with fully searchable text. All editorial content and pictorial features are captured as separate documents to allow for easy search and discovery. For advertisements, the featured company and brand names have been assigned to the document records where possible, and all image captions are captured to a high accuracy, allowing precise retrieval of photographs and illustrations. Contributor names that appear in image credits, such as photographers and stylists, are also indexed. This archive database provides a wealth of information to researchers and students of fashion, the retail business and twentieth-century material culture.