Fashion databases
Fairchild's Books Library
"Fairchild Books Library provides content that covers a full spectrum of topics in fashion including construction, draping, fashion business management, history, illustration, journalism, marketing, promotion, theory, pattern making, styling, product development, sustainable fashion, textiles, and more."
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
"[T]his digital resource is global in focus and presents real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion, tackling important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership."
Journals available via our databases.
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Covers business issues, fashion trends, retailing developments, international ready-to-wear, couture presentations & market overviews. For retailers & manufacturers of women's apparel, accessories, fibers & textiles.
Vocational Studies complete
International Journal Of Fashion Design, Technology & Education
| Publishes articles on fashion design and education, pattern cutting, manufacturing technology, and apparel production, as well as newly developed technology, theory, educational practices and techniques in the fashion and textile industries. |
Academic Search Premier
Fashion Theory: The Journal Of Dress, Body & Culture
Provides an international & interdisciplinary forum for the analysis of cultural phenomena ranging from foot binding to fashion advertising.
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre Plus
For people interested in fashion and beauty as well as the professional fashion designer and retailer.(US)
Apparel Retail Industry Profile: Australia
Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Apparel Manufacturing
Articles about beauty, fashion, and media personalities.
Discusses current events and ideas, combining domestic and international news analysis with cartoons, sports, fashion & arts, profiles, short fiction and poetry.
Fashion Industry; Apparel Industry
Contemporary & relevant to Australian women today with experts in every field (ie fashion/beauty; home /craft /gardening /cooking).