Guides: Fashion: Academic/Scholarly Web Sources

Sources

We Wear Culture The stories behind what we wear by curators from around the world.
Vestoj A critical thinking forum where academia, museums and fashion industry work together.
Threadbared Discussion between two academics about the politics, aesthetics, histories, theories, cultures and subcultures of "fashion" and "beauty".
Dress Practice Collective (Student Led) A blog discussing fashion theory, events and resources.
Fashion Studies Journal (Student Led) A quarterly journal by students of the MA Fashion program at Parsons School of Design (New York).
Fashion Projects A platform to highlight the importance of fashion, especially “experimental” fashion within current critical discourses.
Address Fashion A journal for fashion criticism.
Dressed: the history of fashion A website and podcast series on the history and trends of fashion
Art21: magazine This magazine provides theme-centred quarterly issues.
Fashion History Timeline The Fashion History Timeline is an excellent resource for learning about how fashion, textiles, and other garments have evolved over time across the world. The timeline is a project of the Fashion Institute of Technology and began in 2015 as part of a class that created artwork analysis entries
Fashion2Fiber The Historic Costume & Textiles Collection is a scholarly and artistic resource of apparel and textile material culture. The 11,500+ holdings encompass a range of three dimensional objects such as textiles and articles of clothing and accessories for men, women, and children, including national dress costume, from the mid-18th century to contemporary 21st century designers.