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Fashion Library 

Fashion Design & Merchandising Resources: Fashion & Design Industry

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About.com, Women's Fashion
Review the tabs on the left to connect to articles about fashion, fashion trends and previews, buyers guides and other fashion resources. The main page includes the first paragraph of, and links to, a number of changing fashion-related articles.

Apparel Search
This website serves as a “directory designed specifically for members of the clothing & fashion accessories industry.” The website provides links to hundreds of resources including businesses and associations (U.S. and world), schools, publications and trade shows as well as information on a variety of topics including customs regulations, care labels and clothing conversion charts.

California Apparel News, Apparel News.net
This is a subscription site, however, some material is accessible to visitors. California Apparel News’ website includes brief news and fashion articles and includes a trade show calendar.

Clothing Model
Clothing Model caters to members of the modeling industry and provides an online directory to modeling agencies by name and location (U.S. and world) as well as other services catered to models.

Council of Fashion Designers of America
The CFDA is a nonprofit trade association of fashion and accessories designers. Visitors may read about the CFDA Awards as well as scholarship and internship opportunities.

Display and Design Ideas (DDI)
This is a subscription site, however, some material is accessible to visitors. Display and Design Ideas’ mission “is to help retailers maximize sales through effective store design and visual presentation.” This website features a selection of past articles accessible through topics including in-store marketing, architectural materials, signage and graphics and visual merchandising.

Fashion Showroom
This website by the Fashion Syndicate Press sells fashion runway photographs to the press. Sample photographs may be viewed for free, although individual images are not downloadable. Photographs are organized by city, season and specialized subjects.

Fashion Trendsetter
Fashion Trendsetter is a fashion forecasting, trend reporting and news e-zine with fashion information from the major trade fairs, trend reports & forecasts. Visitors may go to style notes, fashion trends, color trends, fashion events and fashion shows. The fashion show section provides links and select images from designer shows.

Fashion Windows
This is a membership site, however, a few areas of the site may be accessed without subscription. This site focuses on fashion and visual store merchandising and it includes a number of “trendspotting” articles and links.

FirstVIEW
This is a subscription site, however, some material is accessible to visitors. This website provides international fashion show photographs. Visitors can follow the Photos link to collections, which are divided by collection type and then designer and/or country. Free access is generally provided to less recent collections. Designer contact and brief biographical information is also available.

Fuk.co.uk
This UK-based fashion site provides blogs, news articles and discussion threads on all aspects of fashion. Click on the Catwalk tab in order to access runway photographs and videos from London Fashion Week, Graduate Fashion Week, and Alternative Fashion Week.

Hoovers
Hoovers is a provider of business information. While a subscription is required to access all of the site’s features, visitors may search for specific companies and find addresses, overviews, key numbers, key people, competitors and business rankings.

InfoMat: Fashion Industry Information Services and Search Engine
This is a membership site, however, many sections may be accessed without subscription.
This fashion industry website offers directories to manufactures, suppliers and retailers and others in the fashion industry. Visitors will find images from fashion shows by following the On The Runway link.

JuniorFashion: Children’s Fashion News
This is a British parenting magazine and includes a Fashion tab that links to brief articles and images of current children's fashion trends.

Men.style.com
The brother site to Style.com and the “online home of Detail and GQ,” this website makes available men’s runway photographs from current and past seasons as well as current articles, forums and blog-links to topics in men’s fashion and shopping. Under Runway Shows select from the drop-down menu of designer names to view the latest collection. When viewing a designer, visitors can click on the "See all " link to access past fashion shows as well. In order to access the forums, viewers must subscribe, but subscription is free.

Metrofashion
This website provides fashion news articles as well as a selection of many recent runway photographs (not separately printable).

Mudpie Design Trend Studios
Mudpie Design is a British children’s fashion forecasting and graphics service. Although forecast material must be purchased, visitors can view some sample pages by clicking on the Trendbooks link and then selecting one of the tabs at the top of the page: Cutiepie (babies), Minipie (children), Mudpie (tweens and juniors), Mpk Female (young adult) or Mpk Male (young adult). Under each tab the viewer may click on the About button to see sample pages. Images however, cannot be enlarged or printed separately.

New York Magazine: Fashion
New York magazine features extensive on-line fashion resources including news articles, blogs, and an events calendar as well as topical videos and slideshows. Street style is highlighted in the well-known Look Book link which features photographic portraits and brief interviews with stylish New Yorkers. Click on the Shows, Designers or Models links and search alphabetically to bring up helpful profile information as well as runway photographs.

Pantone, Inc.
Pantone, Inc. is promoted as the “world-renowned authority on color and provider of color systems and leading technology for the selection and accurate communication of color.” Pantone products include color forecasting. Visitors may view a number of trend articles for past and upcoming seasons by following the products link to fashion and home and then to the trends link. The webpage offers members the ability to download free articles about color. Membership is free.

PromoStyl
This forecasting agency website provides brief teaser pages designed to promote their trend materials. These teaser pages focus on specific markets in womenswear, menswear and childrenswear and may be useful for researchers.

Showroom Access
Registration is free but required for site access. This website is designed to provide “buyers and other fashion trade members. . .a way to discover international high-end and up-and-coming fashion designers.” Visitors may access collections by designer’s names.

Style.com
The “online home of Vogue and W,” this website makes available thousands of runway photographs from current and past ready-to-wear and couture shows as well as current articles, forums and blog-links to topics in fashion, beauty and shopping. From the homepage, click on the Search tab in order to conduct a Runway photo search (by designer, season and trend) or a Designers, Models and Celebrities photo search (by name). In order to access the forums, viewers must subscribe, but subscription is free.

The Fashion Group International
Organizational membership is required for access to parts of the website. FGI is a nonprofit professional organization dedicated to the fashion, apparel, accessories, beauty and home industries. Its mission includes advancement of women in these industries. The website includes information about events, career counseling and other aspects of membership.

Trends West: L.A.'s Retail Notebook
Trends West is an L.A. trend-spotting company, which promotes itself to the fashion industry. Visitors can follow the ‘retail notebook’ link to view a few sample pages of recent past issues of the company’s monthly Report. By following the ‘other services’ link, visitors can also to view sample pages from publications in different categories such as girlswear, denim, accessories and swimwear.

U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration, Office of Textiles and Apparel
The U.S. Office of Textiles and Apparel provides information and data relating to international trade including trade show dates, import quotas and information on trade agreements.

Women's Wear Daily (WWD)
This is a membership site, however, a few areas of the site may be accessed without subscription. Fashion Design and Merchandising students and faculty should have access to this site through designated computers.