Fashion Design

Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. It is comprised of Berg Fashion Library, Fairchild Books Library, Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases, Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive and Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library.

**Trial for entire platform active through 5/8/2024.

Bloomsbury Visual Arts is an interdisciplinary hub designed for research and learning across design, art, architecture and related fields. It brings together our visual arts resources to provide a richly layered and cross-searchable platform which can be explored using the subject and collection tiles below. This new platform currently includes Bloomsbury Applied Visual Arts, Bloomsbury Design Library, and Bloomsbury Architecture Library.

Indexes over 500 journals that cover industrial design, interior design, fashion, graphic design, typography, packaging, etc., since 1973. Supplementary databases provide contact information for craft & design organizations, special collections of design & craft, design & craft education programs, and periodicals. Online help is available. Coverage is worldwide.

Platform collecting resources that connect Fashion studies to studies of race and power and de-center Eurocentric perspectives of fashion history more broadly. Please note that you must create an account to access this resource with their @pratt.edu email account.

This collection provides over 1,200 hours of videos that retrace the history of fashion, clothing, and costume worldwide, feature interviews with top fashion names, and cover major international events.

A comprehensive survey of current publications in the fields of visual and applied arts, including those covering modern and contemporary art, all aspects of design and craft, and scholarship on Western art history.

Provides domestic and international coverage of the scientific and technological aspects of textile production and processing.

A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Vogue offers a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

WGSN is a forecasting resource. Use it as an aid for your design research by accessing trend information, finding inspiration, and using design tools. Current students, staff or faculty members can register for a personal account.

Use your Pratt email address to create and access your account in WGSN.

For instructions on accessing WGSN, see the tab "WGSN" in this guide.

Please Remember: Login to Stylesight every 90 days to keep your account active.

Distinguished by its international coverage of scientific, trade, technical, and economic publications, World Textiles covers more than four decades of information relating to developments and innovations in the textile industry.

WWD is widely considered the ‘Wall St Journal’ of the fashion industry. The WWD Archive covers the 1st issue from 1910 to the present year. Issues are reproduced from cover to cover in high-resolution color. WWD is a unique record of the twentieth century US and international fashion and beauty business. The Archive preserves one of the industry’s most influential reads, tracing day-to-day news, opinion, and socio-economic trends, from runway reports to beauty product reviews.