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FCS: Fashion Merchandising and Design

Welcome to the Guide for Fashion Design and Merchandising! I've pulled together a selection of resources that I hope will prove helpful for your research papers and projects.

Search Databases for Journals and Articles

Use the link below to perform a general search of the Library's list of Databases to find the fashion related MagazinesJournals and Scholarly Articles you need for research.

A-Z Databases

Selected Databases

Women's Wear Daily Archive

The Women's Wear Daily Archive preserves one of the fashion industry's most influential reads. Key moments in the history of the industry, as well as major designers, brands, retailers and advertisers are all covered in this publication of record. * 6-month embargo on new issues.

Vogue Archive

The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world's greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

Jet Magazine Archive

Jet Magazine Archive covers art, news, politics and other social topics with an African-American focus. It includes over 3,100 issues providing a broad view of culture, fashion and entertainment from its first issue in 1951 through 2014.

Esquire Magazine Archive 

Esquire Magazine Archive, 1933-2014, delivers coverage of the award-winning American men’s magazine in the areas of politics, men’s fashion, entertainment, fiction and pop culture. It includes more than 900 issues providing a broad view of 20th-Century American thought through cultural and current events.

Harper's Bazaar Archive

A searchable archive of the US (1867 to present) and UK (1930-2015) editions of Harper's Bazaar.  This resource chronicles over 150 years of American, British, and international fashion, culture, and society, supporting researchers by offering unique insights into the events, attitudes, and interests of the modern era.

Women's Magazine Archive

An archival research resource comprising the backfiles of leading women's interest consumer magazines. Issues are scanned in high-resolution color and feature detailed article-level indexing.  Among the research fields served by this material are gender studies, social history, economics/marketing, media, fashion, politics, and popular culture.

Entrepreneurship Database 

This database bridges theory with practice, covering a wide spectrum of resources useful to educators, researchers, students and practitioners. Provides a full toolkit of practical guides, templates, forms, sample business plans and tips from successful entrepreneur in a wide range of formats - from video to downloadable Word and Excel files, as well as traditional text and PDFs.

Business Source Complete 

Business database that indexes scholarly business journals and other sources, with full text for over 9,500 titles, including over 1,000 peer-reviewed business journals. Indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. 

Selected Magazines

Glamour

Online women's magazine published by Condé Nast Publications. 

Cosmopolitan

Contains information on fashion and beauty; women's health and well-being, as well as what is happening in pop culture and entertainment.

Seventeen

American bimonthly teen magazine headquartered in New York City. The publication targets a demographic of 13-to-19-year-old females.

Vogue

A monthly fashion and lifestyle magazine that covers style news, including haute couture fashion, beauty, culture, living, and runway. 

Teen Vogue

 A sister publication to Vogue, targeted at teenage girls and young women.

Flare 

Canadian online fashion magazine in print until 2016.

Allure

American women's magazine focused on beauty, published monthly by Condé Nast in New York City.

Elle

International women's magazine of French origin that offers a mix of fashion and beauty content, and society and lifestyle. 

Marie Claire

French international monthly magazine focused on topics such as fashion, style, hairstyles, beauty, women's issues, careers, and health.

Vanity Fair

American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States.

InStyle

American monthly women's fashion magazine founded in 1994.