The Fashion Library is currently closed as part of the Rockwell Hall Renovation. You can still order Fashion Library material through KentLINK and pick it up at any library location. For assistance from a Fashion Librarian, email fashionlibrary@kent.edu.

The Fashion Library provides specialized resources in fashion design and merchandising to support the students and faculty of the Fashion School, the University, and the larger Community.

Research Tools

• Have a research question or need an online reference appointment?  Email fashionlibrary@kent.edu and a librarian will get back to you!
• KentLINK | OhioLINK | Journal Finder
• Databases (newspaper, journal and magazine articles & forecasting sites)
• Subject Resources on a variety of special topics including:
  • Black Fashion
  • Costume Design, Historic Patterns & Cosplay
  • Dress & Fashion History
  • Fabrics, Textiles & Sourcing
  • Fashion Careers & Entrepreneurship 
  • Fashion Communication
  • Fashion Diversity
  • Fashion Forecasting & Design Research
  • Fashion Industry Associations & News 
  • Fashion Technology
  • Fashion Theory & Reflective Practice
  • Jewelry
  • Sustainable, Circular & Ethical Fashion

Related Links

• The Fashion School
• The Kent State University Museum