Fashion Design

Elle.com

Online version of fashion mainstay Elle magazine. Includes trend reports, runway, haute couture, ready-to-wear and more.

Lucire

International fashion magazine known for showcasing designers regadless of marketing budget or origin. Free, only available online.

Style.com

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!

Fashion-ology: An Introduction to Fashion Studies

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

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)

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

Peer reviewed journal explores the intersection of culture and fashion phenomena including clothing as well as footbinding, tattoos, piercings, and much more.

Teen Vogue

Teen version of the classic fashion magazine. Don't miss the Teen Vogue website for more teen fashion and beauty trends.

Vogue

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.

• 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.
  
• 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.
  
• EBSCOhost
  Search from a wide range of research databases for magazine and journal articles. Updated daily.
  
• Grove 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.
  
• 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.
  
• 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.
  

American Apparel and Footwear Association
American Apparel Producers Network
Fashion Group International, INC.
Hosiery Association
International Costumer's Guild
National Textile Center University Research Consortium