Fashion
Includes a section on Costume History which covers Museums of Costume. General museums & galleries with fashion collections are not listed as these should be covered elsewhere. Small selection of individual designers and retailers without annotations. Not included are magazines which are little more than advertisements for the print products.
See also Textiles, Footwear, Art, Health & Beauty, Photography
Starting Points
About.com
Good range of resources and links.
http://www.fashion.about.com/style/fashion
Fashion Angel
Gateway to sites which have received the 'Angel of Fashion’ award. The whole site is searchable & provides links to beauty, designers, magazines etc.
http://www.fashionangel.com
The Fashion Directory
An interesting site providing images from classic fashion editorials, taken from French, Spanish & UK Vogue amongst others, and classic designer advertising campaigns.
http://www.fashion.tripnet.se
Fashion-era
Fashion-era contains 90 content rich, illustrated pages of Fashion History, Costume, Clothing, Textiles and Social History.
http://www.fashion-era.com
Fashion.Net
Searchable site providing a good starting point with links to other sites. Sections on Beauty, Designers, Magazines & Shopping.
http://www.fashion.net
Fashionweb
Do not use Back button to Return to this webguide, simply 'Single Click on the Right Mouse Button when the cursor is over the Back button, and select Fashion Webguide'.
Searchable with links to other sites providing a 'fashion environment’ covering all aspects of fashion.
http://www.fashionweb.co.uk
Fashion Windows
This Internet database focuses on visual merchandising and mannequins - especially in Dallas, Texas - but there is also a useful section on designers.
http://www.fashionwindows.com
Worth Global Style Network WGSN Daily News can be found in the e-journals section.
Online news and information service for the fashion and style industries. Access is via individual cards detailing user name and password. These are available from course directors at LCF, CSM and LCP and in the library at Chelsea.
http://www.wgsn-edu.com
Galleries & Museums
Costume Gallery
Extensive site of 400 pages and 1800 images aimed at students, designers and those involved in textile manufacture and research.
http://www.costumegallery.com
Museum of Costume
Provides a 'tour’ of the collection via a slide show, image gallery and regular featured items. Also provides information on the Fashion Research Centre at Bath.
http://www.museumofcostume.co.uk
Victoria & Albert Museum
Access to the dress collection and to Fashion in Motion.
http://www.vam.ac.uk
Selected Sites
London Fashion Week
Official site for London Fashion Week.
http://www.londonfashionweek.co.uk/
FirstVIEW
Images from the latest collections from Milan, Paris, London & New York. Most recent collections are available on
a subscription basis (at LCF) and previous collections are freely accessible.
http://www.firstview.com/home.html
Gen Art
An America not-for-profit organisation based in New York & Los Angeles involved in promoting emerging talent. 'Online Runway’ provides images from new designers.
http://www.genart.org
The Mix
http://www.global-color.com/
Premiere Vision
http://www.premierevision.fr/
Promostyl
A forecasting company providing a taste of fashion trends for the coming seasons.
http://www.promostyl.com/
Beverley Birks Couture Collection
Web site of the Beverley Birks haute couture & accessories collection. Works organised by couturieres country of origin. Also includes early 19th Century plates from Journal des Dames et des Modes.
http://www.camrax.com/pages/birks0.htm
Costume Page
Resource list which links to over 2,000 costume related sites. Useful groupings including Making & Wearing and Accessories. Also links to more general fashion resources.
http://members.aol.com/nebula5/costume.html
History of Costume
http://www.siue.edu/COSTUMES/history.html
La Couturiere Parisienne Costume and Fashion Site
Covers the study and making of costume from 18th, 19th & early 20th centuries. Includes information on social context, sewing patterns and technique and fashion images from 1500-1928.
http://www.marquise.de/
Index of American Design
Comprises over 17000 watercolours of American decorative arts objects from the colonial period to the nineteenth century including costume. Provides links to wider resources of the National Gallery of Art.
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/iad.htm
Regency Fashion Page
Includes fashion plates, portraits and illustrations of regency clothing and shoes for men, women and children.
http://locutus.ucr.edu/~cathy/reg3.html
Agnes b
http://www.agnesb.fr/
Armani
http://www.giorgioarmani.com/
Coco Chanel
http://www.chanel.com
Gaultier
http://www.jpgaultier.fr/
Ghost
http://www.ghost.co.uk/
Tommy Hilfiger
http://www.tommy.com/
Jean Muir
http://www.jeanmuir.info/
Paul Smith
http://www.paulsmith.co.uk/
Vionnet
http://www.vionnet.com/
Benetton
http://www.benetton.com/
Debenhams
http://www.debenhams.com/
Diesel
http://www.diesel.com
Gap
http://www.gap.com/
Guess?
http://www.guess.com/
Levi’s
http://www.levi.com/
Marks & Spencer
http://www.marks-and-spencer.com/
E-Journals
Elle International
http://www.elle.com/
Fashionlive
One of the earliest fashion e-zines, first launched in 1997. Good general coverage of designers and collections.
http://www.fashionlive.com/
Fashion uk magazine
Online magazine covering fashion and beauty. Useful new designers and designer profiles.
http://www.widemedia.com/fashionuk/fashion/index.html
Hint Magazine
Contemporary fashion and lifestyle magazine.
http://www.hintmag.com/
Jane Magazine
http://www.janemag.com/2001/athome.html
Marie Claire
Internet version of US fashion magazine.
http://marieclaire.com/
N'touch
The Internet's first fashion magazine produced by BA Fashion Promotion students at the London College of Fashion.
http://ntouch.linst.ac.uk/
SoWear
New York based fashion magazine, directory and store dedicated to promoting emerging talent in fashion.
http://www.sowear.com/
Style.com
A very comprehensive fashion magazine produced by CondeNet. Excellent coverage of collections which can be searched by season, designer and trend. Fashion and celebrity coverage.
http://www.style.com/
Visionaire
A taste of the avant-garde Visionaire publications.
http://www.visionaireworld.com/
Vogue
Online version of UK monthly. Daily news, interviews, job opportunities plus limited access to the archive from
1946-92.
http://www.vogue.co.uk/
WGSN Daily News
Online news and information service for the fashion and style industries. This section is separate from the main WGSN service.
http://www.wgsn.com/public/wgsndaily
Womens Wear Daily
Free online version of American fashion retailers daily newspaper. Offers headlines, classified ads links to other sites & subscription details plus preview of full online version.
http://www.wwd.com/
Nominated Resources
Web sites and other web-based resources nominated by users of this site will be posted here.
Fashion Capital
Fashion Capital offers up to the minute fashion industry news and other items of interest to fashion professionals. Registration is free.
http://www.fashioncapital.co.uk/
Show Studio
Show studio is a fashion broadcasting initiative that invites leading creatives from the fields of art, fashion and design to collaborate on new work and transmit live events online.
http://www.showstudio.com/
Vintage shirts
Replicas of mens' shirts for use in period costume dramas.
http://www.vintageshirt.co.uk
Photographic libraries
A photographic library directory containing information on fashion photographers & stylists, advertising and editorial shoots.
http://www.photographiclibraries.com