Fashion: Websites

• Design Directory - a directory of resources and links created 'by designers for designers'.
• Fashion Forecast Services - information on the latest trends in fashion, including textiles, menswear, colours and accessories.
• Fashion Review Australia - a weblog which aims to provide the latest informtion on Australian designers and fashions. 
• Hello magazine
• Laundry guide to common care symbols
• Trendwatching.com
• Women's Wear Daily (WWD) - news, images, slideshows and videos available from this online magazine.  

• Intellectual Property Rights - information from the Australian Government.
• Creative Victoria - Business Victoria's support for designers

Creative innovation

Design Victoria - a Government initiative in collaboration with  RMIT and industry stakeholders to increase the competitive skills of designers in local and export markets, while developing the design innovation and excellence capabilities of small to medium enterprises in Victoria.

FIBER - The Online Journal of International Fashion & Apparel Industry - a journal that aims to showcase fashion and apparel markets around the world.  Podcasts are also available from the website.  Hosted by the University of Delaware. 

Fashion Incubator  - lessons from a sustainable fashion floor

L'Oreal Melbourne Fashion Festival

TCF Australia - Textile, Clothing & Footwear Resource Centre

• Podcasts from FIBER about the international apparel industry (FIBER is an online journal from the University of Delaware).
• Podcasts from BBC Radio 4 Woman's Hour - a range of subjects covered, from organic wool to Coco Chanel. Last updated 2010.

• Centre for Sustainable Fashion at the London College of Fashion. 
• Fashion & Style - the New York Times' fashion blog.
• Fa$hion for Profit - a blog by Frances Harder, the author of a number of books on fashion business.
• Justine Picardie - a fashion writer and researcher.
• Sea of Shoes - Jane Aldridge's blog.
• The Thoughtful Dresser - a blog posted by Linda Grant, author of a book by the same title (in the Library), which looks at fashion and why women dress the way they do. Not maintained since 2010 but with interesting entries. 
• Blog.mode: Addressing Fashion - this blog, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NY, is closed in 2008 but it has some fascinating entries.

• mytheresa.com - luxury fashions for sale on line
• theOutnet.com - discounted designer clothes and accessories
• RonHerman - US brands
• Forward - new design talent
• colette - the online shop for the Paris boutique
• Amelie Boutique - another French site
• Atelier-Mayer.com - vintage fashion

Clothing manufacture workers in developing countries are paid minimal wages and often work long hours in harsh – often dangerous – conditions. In the sportswear and garment industry, most of these workers are women.
http://www.oxfam.org.au/explore/workers-rights/oxfam-supports-workers-rights