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AUP Library books are organized by Dewey Decimal Numbers - here are the basic Fashion Studies call numbers:

391 Costume & personal appearance
646 Sewing, clothing, management of personal and family life
687 Clothing and accessories
746 Textile arts

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Paris Fashion Museums

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Fashion Studies Journals

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Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty
Critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty is the first journal dedicated to the critical examination of the fashion and the beauty systems as symbolic spaces of production and reproduction, representation and communication of artifacts, meanings, social practices, and visual or textual renditions of cloth, clothing and appearance.
Fashion theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture
18 months of embargo
International Journal of Fashion Studies
The International Journal of Fashion Studies is a scientific peer-reviewed journal that fosters the worldwide diffusion of Fashion Studies. Fashion Studies is an interdisciplinary field of research that has been producing an extensive repertoire of theories, analyses and enquiries.
Vestoj: The Journal of Sartorial Matters
"Founded in 2009, Vestoj is an annual publication and crossdisciplinary platform that deals with critical thinking on fashion through theory, oral history, literature and visual content. It is focused on sartorial matters by bridging theory and practice in fashion." [Palais de Tokyo]

Fashion Studies Books

Clothing Poverty by Andrew Brooks
ISBN: 1786997398
Publication Date: 2019-10-15
Have you ever stopped and wondered where your jeans came from? Who made them and where? Ever wondered where they end up after you donate them for recycling? Following a pair of jeans, Clothing Poverty takes the reader on a vivid around-the-world tour to reveal how clothes are manufactured and retailed, bringing to light how fast fashion and recycling are interconnected.
Fashion: critical and primary sources by Peter McNeil (Editor)
Call Number: Non-circ 391.009 M478f
ISBN: 9781847882929
Publication Date: 2009-02-01
Winner of the Art Association of Australia and New Zeland prize for Best Edited Book, 2010. Fashion: Critical and Primary Sources is a major multi-volume work of reference which brings together seminal writings on Fashion. The geographical range of the essays crosses Europe, Asia and North America.
Fashion, Culture, and Identity by Fred Davis
Call Number: 391 D261f
ISBN: 0226138097
Publication Date: 1994-09-01
What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes and what they can do to us.
Fashion Studies: research methods, sites and practices by Christopher Breward (Foreword by); Heike Jenss (Editor)
ISBN: 9781472583185
Publication Date: 2016-01-28
The study of fashion has expanded into a thriving field of inquiry, with researchers utilizing diverse methods from across subject disciplines to explore fashion and dress in wide-ranging contexts.
Fashion Theory: a reader by Malcolm Barnard
Call Number: 391 B259fa
ISBN: 9780415413398
Publication Date: 2007-06-14
From its beginnings in the fifteenth century, intensified interest in fashion and the study of fashion over the last thirty years has led to a vast and varied literature on the subject. This collection of essays surveys and contextualizes the ways in which a wide range of disciplines have used a variety of theoretical approaches to explain, and sometimes to explain away, the astonishing variety, complexity and beauty of fashion. Themes covered include individual, social and gender identity, the erotic, consumption and communication. By collecting together some of the most influential and important writers on fashion and exposing the ideas and theories behind what they say, this unique collection of extracts and essays brings to light the presuppositions involved in the things we think and say about fashion.
Fashion Writing and Criticism by Peter McNeil; Sanda Miller
Call Number: 808.06 M478f
ISBN: 9780857854476
Publication Date: 2014-10-23
"Fashion Writing and Criticism provides students with the tools to critique fashion with skill and style. Explaining the history and theory of criticism, this innovative text demonstrates how the tradition of criticism has developed and how this knowledge can be applied to fashion, enabling students to acquire the methods and proper vocabulary to be active critics themselves."
Historical Dictionary of the Fashion Industry by Francesca Sterlacci; Joanne Arbuckle
ISBN: 9780810864191
Publication Date: 2008-01-01
The history of clothing begins with the origin of man, and fashionable dress can be traced as far back as 25,000 years ago.
Paris fashion a cultural history by Valerie Steele
ISBN: 9781474269711
Publication Date: 2017
Paris has been the international capital of style for 300 years. This fascinating book shows that the strength of the French fashion industry rests on the depth and sophistication of its fashion culture
Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion by Kate Fletcher (Editor); Mathilda Tham (Editor)
ISBN: 9780415828598
Publication Date: 2014-09-05
The clothing industry employs 25 million people globally contributing to many livelihoods and the prosperity of communities, to women's independence, and the establishment of significant infrastructures in poorer countries. Yet the fashion industry is also a significant contributor to the degradation of natural systems, with the associated environmental footprint of clothing high in comparison with other products. Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion recognizes the complexity of aligning fashion with sustainability.
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles by Kate Fletcher
Call Number: 746.92 F612s
ISBN: 9781844074815
Publication Date: 2008-03-14
Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys brings together for the first time information about lifecycle sustainability impacts of fashion and textiles, practical alternatives, design concepts and social innovation.

Reference Books

Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion by Valerie Steele
ISBN: 9780684314518
Publication Date: 2004-10-01
"Steele, director of the Fashion Institute of Technology Museum, has crafted, with the help of 325 contributors, an authoritative introduction to fashion, the industry, and the issues that have defined the field. Some 640 articles describe the colorful facets of couture and textiles, from fabrics of chintz, corduroy, and feathers to such garb as aprons, bikinis, and prison dress. There are color plates and nearly 600 black-and-white illustrations."
The fashion dictionary : a visual resource for terms, techniques and styles by Angus, Emily; Baudis, Macushla and Woodcock, Philippa
Call Number: REF 746.9203 An595r
ISBN: 9781780975696
Publication Date: 2015
The Fashion Directory covers hundreds of current fashion terms, techniques and details - from the types of embroidery or lace to definitions for clothing styles and stitching, from panniers and plackets to the difference between a batwing and a dolman sleeve.
The Handbook of Visual Culture by Ian Heywood (Editor); Barry Sandywell (Editor)
Call Number: REF 700.103 H622h
ISBN: 9781847885739
Publication Date: 2011-12-20
Visual culture has become one of the most dynamic fields of scholarship, a reflection of how the study of human culture increasingly requires distinctively visual ways of thinking and methods of analysis.

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Fashion Studies Databases

ARTstor This link opens in a new window
Berg Fashion Library This link opens in a new window
Berg Fashion Library is one of the leading resources for students and researchers of fashion studies. It also includes resources museum studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and more.
Find over 150 ebooks, 17,000 images of fashion objects from museums around the world, encyclopedias and more.
BHA and RILA This link opens in a new window
Europeana Fashion This link opens in a new window
"Explore fashion – historical clothing and accessories, contemporary designs, catwalk photographs, drawings, sketches, plates, catalogues and videos – from more than 30 European public and private institutions."
Fashion and Race Database This link opens in a new window
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"The Fashion and Race Database is an online platform filled with tools that expand the narrative of fashion history and challenge mis-representation within the fashion system."
Fashion History Timeline This link opens in a new window
"The Fashion History Timeline is an open-access source for fashion history knowledge, featuring objects and artworks from over a hundred museums and libraries that span the globe."
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Oxford Art Online and Benezit This link opens in a new window

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