Apparel Design & Merchandising Resources

The acting subject liaison at the Libraries for Design & Merchandising is:
Naomi Lederer
Morgan Library | (970) 491-0593 | (970) 491-5817 FAX
E-mail via "Content:" below

• CSU Deparment of Design and Merchandising Website
• Pathfinder for AM250
• Historic Costume (1900-1975)

Web Resources(listed on this page):

Associations	Fashion Designers
Book Suppliers	Images
College Programs	Merchandising
Employment	Museums and Galleries
Ethnic Dress	Preservation

Associations

• American Apparel and Footware Association (AAFA)
• American Marketing Association (AMA)
• American Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) (own Web site links to casino as of 5/8/8)
• American Institute for Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works
• Costume Society of America
• Canadian Apparel Federation
• International Association of Clothing Designers and Executives
• International Textile and Apparel Association
• United States Association of Importers of Textiles and Apparel

Book Suppliers

• Fairchild Books from the publishers of Women's Wear Daily, and a number of trade periodicals, an extensive database of book titles on fashion and merchandising.
• Fashiondex publications in the areas of retailing and textile & apparel technology.
• Textile Museum Shop online database of over 500 titles on textiles and related subjects sponsored by the Textile Museum, Washington, D.C.

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College and University Programs

Fashion School Review - lists fashion design schools and colleges FashionSchools.com - directory of Fashion Design Schools in the United States Academy of Art University - California Colorado State University Department of Design and Merchandising Cornell University Department of Textiles & Apparel Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising FIT- SUNY Fashion Institute of Technology Florida State University Dept. of Textiles and Consumer Science Indiana University Bloomington Dept. of Apparel Merchandising and Interior Design Iowa State University Dept. of Apparel, Educational Studies & Hospitality Management Michigan State University Dept. of Human Environment and Design North Carolina State University College of Textiles North Dakota State University at Fargo Dept. of Apparel, Design, Facility and Hospitality Management Ohio University School of Human and Consumer Science

Rhode Island School of Design Dept. of Apparel Design Savannah College of Art and Design Fashion Dept. Missouri State University Clothing, Textiles and Merchandising Dept. Texas Women's University Dept. of Fashion and Textiles University of Delaware Dept. of Fashion and Apparel Studies University of Minnesota Design, Housing & Apparel University of Missouri Textile & Apparel Management Dept. University of North Carolina at Greensboro Dept. of Textile Products Design and Marketing University of North Texas School of Visual Arts University of Wisconsin at Stout Dept. of Apparel Design and Development

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Employment

• Fashion.net updated postings usually for the current month. Also includes a section on getting a job in fashion.
• Women's Wear Daily fashion industry classified advertisements from the WWD Website- you will need to register for free to access the classified ads.

Ethnic Dress

• Art and Life in Africa (ALA) thorough site in content and in indexing, from the University of Iowa Dept. of Art and Art History with background on the groups and countries of the continent.
• Bata Shoe Museum, Tornonto includes images, maps, background and history of footwear through the ages. See the Ethnological, Circumpolar, and North American Indian sections, available from the Collections Page.
• Costumer's Manifesto Ethnic Dress Page personal Webpage with extensive links to sources for ethnic dress and costume.
• History of the Kimono Kimono Hypertext from JPNET (Japanese Language and Culture Network) at MIT includes extensive images of the male, female, and child kimono.
• Laplander or Saami Dress background on clothing and images of Saami dress and footwear from the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto.
• Polar Region Traditional Dress part of the "Costumer's Manifesto," a separate listing with an encyclopedic collection of links.

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Fashion Designers

• About.com Fashion Designers lists fashion industry links including an A-Z index of designers as well as a Photo Gallery.
• Biography and Geneology Master Index (updated biannually) comprehensive index to 12 million biographical sketches. Check Morgan Library holdings for individual sources. Available on campus or remotely to CSU faculty, staff and students.

Images

• Fashion Columbia Study Collection - Women's Costume Collection. Columbia College (Chicago). Selected images by designer, date, or keyword. Some items only have a description and no image. Many of the items with images include both a front and a back view. See also Men's and Ethnic Collections.
• Dictionary of Art Online full text version of the Dictionary of Art and Oxford Companion to Western Art with browsing and keyword search capabilities. The online version offers external links within the dictionary entries to authorative Websites of relevant museums, galleries and universities with full text images. Art Resources, Bridgeman Art Library, and Art Images have many thousands of images.

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Merchandising

• American Apparel and Footware Association (AAFA) lists numerous links to industry news and information, consumer information and events calendar.
• American Textile Manufacturers Institute (ATMI) searchable site with information for textile buyers as well as industry standards, trade and economic data.
• Census Bureau retail and wholesale trade data, foreign trade, economic census and population census, all full text, mainly in .pdf files.
• Fashion Windows includes numerous sources for visual merchandising, display and designer information, sponsored by a private company of the same name.
• FiberSource information of international fiber production, fiber news and statistics, and particular fiber types with corresponding manuafacturers. Sponsored by American Fiber Manufacturers Association / Fiber Economics Bureau, Inc.
• National Retail Federation includes background, membership and current news for the organization as well as industry news, links to relevant government publications and sources for the independent retailer.
• Office of Textiles and Apparel (OTEXA) trade news and data from the U.S. Department of Commerce - International Trade Administration.

Museums and Galleries

• American Textile History Museum
• CSU Gustafson Gallery
• CSU Historic Costume and Textile Museum
• Metropolitan Museum of Art: Antonio Retti Textile Collection and Costume Institute
• Museum at FIT [Fashion Institute of Technology, NY]
• Museum of Costume in Bath England
• Philadelphia Museum of Art
• Texas Fashion Collection at the University of North Texas
• The Textile Museum

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Preservation

• Caring for Your Treasures from the American Institute for the Conservation of Historic and Artistic Works, provides detailed instructions for decorative and plastic arts as well as a specific section on Caring for Your Textiles.
• Fabriclink includes an entire Fabric Care Center as well as a Consumer Guide, a Retail Forum and an online Textile Dictionary, Performance Term Glossary, and Fabric-isms.

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Webliographies and Megalists

• Apparel-Related Links [Cornell Univerity Department of Human Ecology]
• Costume Gallery
• Costume Page
• Costumer's Manifesto
• Digital Fashion Collections [University of Washington Libraries]
• Fashion and Entertainment Directory [Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising]
• Fashion-Era [Fashion Hisotry & Costume History Eras, Victorians to Haute Couture]
• Fashion Net
• FIT Library Internet Guides [Fashion Institute of Technology]
• Textile Institute - see their Virtual Library of links
• Textile Source
• Textile Web

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