The Fashion Library is currently Open-By-Appointment. You can  order Fashion Library material through KentLINK and pick it up at any library location as well. 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