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Officially opened May 8th 2003. FTM is the first museum in the
UK dedicated to contemporary fashion and textiles.
Fashion
Net
A fashion-specicific
search engine featuring news, message boards, job listing and hot-links to
fashion and beauty sites.
Fashion UK [F-UK]
First View
Comprehensive coverage of the new collections.
The most recent requires a subscription, but much is available for
nothing.
London
Fashion Week
Lucire
The world's
leading pure-play online fashion title.
Lumiere
Paris-based fashion site.
The Textile
Institute
American site
including good links to world-wide resources, including a "virtual
library".
Worth Global Style Network
Vast and splendid collection of all-thing Fashion
and Textile related, including designers' shows and links. A personal User Name
& Password is required to register (free), please ask at the Enquiry
Desk.
Yahoo
Categories
Large collection of
Fashion & Textile related sites arranged by category.
Designer's & Retailer's Homepages
For quick examples of designers' work probably the
best site is First View:
Designers.
Below are listed
the individual Home Pages of designers and fashion retailers: some are
much better than others.
Agnes
B
Giorgio Armani
BCBG
Bebe
Benetton
Company: includes the controversial advertising campaigns
Hugo
Boss
Cesarani
Chanel
Christian
Dior
Gucci
Joop
Helmut
Lang
Oasis
Yves St.
Laurent
Paul Smith
Prada
[Due to open soon]
Louis Vuitton
British Interior Textiles
Institute
European Textile Network
Fabric
Link [US]
Educational resource
for fabrics, apparel, home furnishings and care, including something called The
Fabric University
The Fashion and Textile Museum
The Textile Institute
Textile Resources
Wool:
the Woolmark Site
History of Costume
Bath Museum of Costume
(incs. The Fashion Research Centre)
The Costume
Gallery
Looks rather dated,
but is excellent for images of the history of costume.
The Fan Museum
The Victoria & Albert
Museum
Listed below is a small selection of commercially available electronic journals. For the full range of electronic journals provided through Birmingham City University Libraries, arranged by title, subject and service provider, see Electronic Journals.
Dress:newsletter of the
Costume Society of America.
Elle: access to the various
international editions of Elle.
Marie Claire
Style2000
Vogue
[UK]
Zoozoom.com
Send comments to john.ridgway@bcu.ac.uk