General Fashion Websites
- Elle.com
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Online version of fashion mainstay Elle magazine. Includes trend reports, runway, haute couture, ready-to-wear and more.
- Lucire
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International fashion magazine known for showcasing designers regadless of marketing budget or origin. Free, only available online.
- Style.com
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The online home of Vogue—with all of the expertise you'd expect. Search by designer, model, celebrity and more. Make sure to check out the Trend Report, Accessory Report, and Item of the Week!
NY Times Fashion & Style
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Elle Magazine Fashion
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Journals and E-books
- Fashion-ology: An Introduction to Fashion Studies
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E-book. Short, accessible introduction to the sociology of fashion. Want to understand the difference between clothing and fashion? Read it here!
- Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara
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E-book. Get a complete understanding of branding from haute couture to street wear. Wondering about the effects counterfeiting has on a brand? Read this.
- Fashion Retailing (Part One)
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E-book. Understand the fashion market in terms of rapid change and success or failure . Make sure to also see Fashion Retailing (Part Two).
- Fashion Theory
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Peer reviewed journal explores the intersection of culture and fashion phenomena including clothing as well as footbinding, tattoos, piercings, and much more.
- Teen Vogue
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Teen version of the classic fashion magazine. Don't miss the Teen Vogue website for more teen fashion and beauty trends.
- Vogue
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Long-standing fashion classic, often referred to as the "fashion bible". Make sure to come in to the Sylvania campus library to see the full-color print editions. In addition to Style.com (see General Fashion Websites), the UK Vogue website is also really excellent for trend reports, beauty reports and designer and show information.
Databases
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ARTstor
Includes approximately 300,000 images covering art, architecture and archeology. ARTstor's software tools support viewing and analyzing images through features such as zooming and panning, saving groups of images online for personal or shared uses, and creating and delivering presentations both online and offline. You must register to save any images for future reference and to use ARTstor's sophisticated presentation tools. You also must register to access ARTstor from off-campus.
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Biography Reference Bank
The best way to sort out the rumors from the truth: read authoritative biographical information. Databases containing biographies of about half a million people, from antiquity to the present.
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Communication & Mass Media Complete
Check here for information about print advertisements (magazine ads), etc. EBSCOhost. Full-text articles relating to all aspects of communication and mass media.
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EBSCOhost
Search from a wide range of research databases for magazine and journal articles. Updated daily.
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Grove's Dictionary of Art Online
Contains 45,000 full text articles on every aspect of the visual arts--painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture, decorative arts and photography--from prehistory to the present day, and a wide variety of image files. Updated daily.
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LexisNexis Academic Universe
Full-text of newspapers, wire services, and magazines from around the world, including the New York Times and Oregonian . Also provides company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases.
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Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection
A great source for background information about the psychology of beauty. EBSCOhost. Topics include emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry and psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. Most full-text titles in this database are indexed in PsycINFO.
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