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Berg Fashion Library  

A digital library of images and academic texts in fashion studies.

 

Overview 

Berg Fashion Library provides staff and students with a complete image and text-based resource in fashion studies, with the breadth and depth to add context to research in this specific discipline.

 

Coverage by Topic

Digital collections listed alphabetically by subject area 

 

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Introduction

Bloomsbury Fashion Central

Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress.

It is comprised of Berg Fashion Library, Fairchild Books Library, Bloomsbury Fashion, Business Cases, Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive, Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library and Bloomsbury Digital Fashion Masterclasses. 

 

 

Introduction to Berg Fashion Library 

The Berg Fashion Library is a leading resource for students and researchers of fashion studies. Interdisciplinary in nature, with great visual and integrated content, it is an invaluable resource for researchers in the areas of fashion, museum studies, cultural studies, anthropology and more. 

Content is peer reviewed by industry and academic experts and includes interconnected major reference works, exclusive articles, scholarly eBooks, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images from museums around the world to create a rich educational resource.             

Content highlights

 

  • Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, consisting of 2,000 images and more than 800 in-depth articles, explores the dressed and adorned body cultures and throughout history. Cross cultural and multidisciplinary in approach, it provides readers with an appreciation of the richness and complexity of global dress. 

 

  • Reference Works - besides the Encyclopedia, our reference works also include Classic and modern Writings on Fashion, the A-Z of Fashion, and The Dictionary of Fashion History.

 

  • 200+ academic eBooks that cover important classic and modern writings on fashion.

 

  • Museum exhibitions from museums around the world including the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and Somerset House.

 

  • Image partnerships over 17,000 colour images from prestigious partners such as the Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, Mode Museum, and the Commercial Pattern Archive.

 

  • Teaching and Learning Resources including lesson plans and bibliographic guides

 

Berg Fashion Collections