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Fashion Design Webliography

Virtual Garment Center - http://www.garment.com/

A Web site designed for networking and resource development for the apparel, textile, and fashion industries. It includes a database of companies in these fields.

FabricLink - http://www.FabricLink.com/home.html

An extensive Web site on fabrics, including a history of fibers, descriptions of various fibers and the fabrics made from them, and care information, including stain removal.

Label Talk - http://www.textileaffairs.com/

Maintained by the Clorox Company, this Web site provides information on garment labeling for both consumers and professionals in the clothing industries, including the new FTC Approved Apparel Care Symbols.

Textile Museum - http://www.textilemuseum.org/

The Textile Museum located in Washington, D.C., covers 5,000 years of non-Western textiles. It provides examples from the museum's holdings as well as information about exhibits, information on the Textile Learning Center, and further links to Web sites concerning textiles.

Fashion & Costuming Resources - http://www.ala.org/acrl/resapr99.html

Published by the Association of College & Research Libraries, this Web site provides a directory and further annotated webliographies to the fields of historic and contemporary costuming, the fashion industry, and educational resources on these topics.

Fashion Net - http://www.fashion.net/

A superb Web site on the contemporary fashion industry, including a useful search engine directed to contemporary apparel and fashion designers.

The Fashion Directory - http://www.fashion.tripnet.se/

A Website with great examples of fashion advertising. It includes Photo Editorial of the Year for the previous decade, a large number of classic fashion ad campaigns, as well as links to top models, fashion photographers, and fashion designers. Also included is The Fashion Photography Bookstore.

Textile Society of America - http://textilesociety.org/

Maintained by the Curator of the Costume and Textile Collection at Cornell University, this site explains the purpose and activities of the society, including a job posting section.

Texas Fashion Collection - http://www.art.unt.edu/tfc/

The Texas Fashion Collection contains more than 12,000 items of dress housed at The University of North Texas. The nucleus of the collection is the haute couture work of top designers collected over the years by the Marcus family. The collection's catalog is searchable online, providing designer, date of creation, and description of each item. The Web site also provides an image browser, which includes over 300 images of items from the collection arranged by decade.

Infomat - http://www.infomat.com

Includes 350,000+ international designers, showrooms, retailers, manufacturers & suppliers of men's, women's and children's apparel, textiles and accessories.

leRage.com - http://www.lerage.com/

"The world of fashion shows, designers and latest trends." Contains over 73,000 images of designer's collections and their shows, including backstage photographs and fashion industry calendars. Requires free registration.

Croquis - http://www.taunton.com/threads/pdf/CroquisFamily.pdf

Taunton, publisher of Threads magazine, has made available a family of Croquis downloadable in Acrobat format. Six figures, from toddler to adult, are included.

See also "Copyright" in General Education -