Fashion Catalog 2017

Incorporating the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Berg Fashion Library provides access to an expanding range of fashion resources. Updated three times a year to keep students and scholars at the cutting edge.

• A new home and updated look on Bloomsbury Fashion Central
• NEW! Exhibition Archive featuring Valentino: Master of Couture from Somerset House and Killer Heels: the Art of the High-Heeled Shoe from Brooklyn Museum
• Special Bonus Update! 16 eBooks over the first year of the relaunched site compared with our standard 3-5. Highlights include Dress History; Fashioning Memory and The Superhero Costume
• 13,000 color images from partners including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and more
• Lesson plans with links to online content and bibliographic study guides
• Full text eBooks of 90 Berg fashion titles, with more forthcoming
• Reference sources, including an A-Z of Fashion, The Dictionary of Fashion History, and a museum directory
• NEW! Updated Timeline shows the development of styles and silhouettes throughout history

Key Features and Benefits of Berg Fashion Library and Fashion Photography Archive

For researchers:

• Cite, share, and personalize content
• Hyperlinks: find works in the same subject or by the same author; link between text and endnotes or bibliography
• Growing bank of teaching and research resources
• Unified taxonomy enables inter-product linking

For librarians:

• Unlimited access via IP authentication and other standard access methods
• Library branding
• Flexible purchase options
• Full suite of standard library features, conforms to accessibility standards, MARC records, DOIs, usage stats (including COUNTER 4), online and telephone customer and technical support, promotional materials, and free trials

Now available! Curation by renowned fashion historian, Dr. Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York

Designed for students and researchers, the Fashion Photography Archive contains over 750,000 images,* never before published online. Hundreds of articles, audio, and video resources from expert commentators provide context and analysis.

• The Fashion Photography Archive captures the most iconic fashion moments from the 1970s until 2000, including the evolution of key designers such as McQueen, Westwood, Chalayan, and more. It includes runway, backstage, and street style images
• Resources for teachers and students, including a timeline, lesson plans for instructors and videos for students
• Biographies for all major designers
• Academic articles providing essential context on the following: key catwalk collections, specific themes or styles of dressing, fashion icons, single object analysis, and specific decades
• Chief Curator and Editor-in-Chief Dr. Valerie Steele, an internationally renowned scholar and Director and Chief Curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York has curated the core collection and will continue to commission original commentary on the world of fashion

Fairchild Books understands the needs of fashion students and instructors. With Bloomsbury Fashion Central, Fairchild Books goes digital, providing both an institutional subscription product – the Fairchild Books Library – and a go-to resource for instructors and students.

For students:

• Over 130 textbooks available digitally for rental or purchase, at a variety of affordable price points
• Free STUDIO access with purchase of book + STUDIO bundle

For Instructors:

• Request and access print and digital exam copies
• Instant access to instructor materials like Test Banks, PowerPoint presentations, and Instructor’s Guides
• Digital STUDIO media and assessment ancillaries are available free of charge with or sold separately from our best-selling classic textbooks

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