LibGuides: Image / Moving Image Sources: Fashion

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Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive
In partnership with YOOX-NET-A-PORTER, Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive exhibits almost 3,000 fashion shows presented in Paris, London, New York, and Milan by 460 international designers, and covers the period 1979 to 2003. Each video features extensive indexing and captioning to enable search, browse, and enhanced discoverability.
Fashion Photography Archive
Curated by Editor-in-Chief Valerie Steele, Director of the Museum at FIT in New York, this resource showcases more than 775,000 newly-digitized and high-quality images that feature forty years of contemporary fashion history along with a timeline, lesson plans, and videos to create a rich educational resource.
Vogue Archive
A complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
WGSN
Research, trend analysis and news for the fashion and style industries.

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Alexander Street Press Videos
Access to 4 video collections from Alexander Street Press: Filmakers Library Online, Teachers TV from Education in Video, World History in Video & World Newsreels Online: 1929-1966
BoB: Box of Broadcasts
On demand TV and radio for education, with an archive of over 2 million TV and radio broadcasts. Accessible in the UK only

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Kanopy
30,000+ educational documentaries and classic films from leading producers. A wide range of subject coverage (e.g. Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Education, Health and Sciences) You can watch anytime, anywhere and on any device including via media streaming apps.

Alexander Street Press, Kanopy, Artfilms and Box of Broadcasts all have a great deal of fashion-related content. Kanopy has a fashion section, with over 300 fashion videos, Artfilms has a Design/Fashion section, which includes Masters of Fashion, a multi-part series on fashion designers. Box of Broadcasts has films and programmes covering a whole range of subjects that can be used for inspiration. Take a look at the public playlists on fashion for an idea of what is available. And Alexander Street Press has over 2000 fashion-related videos from the 1970s up to more recent times, including for example The Year in Fashion 1985-2014.