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Berg Fashion Library
Berg Fashion Library provides integrated text and images on world dress and fashion covering historic periods. The resource includes the Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, e-books, e-journals, museum directories, reference works, images and a timeline of global fashion: Antiquity - Present.
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
Global in focus---bringing fashion business to life with real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion. Develop essential business skills required to tackle important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership.

The Fashion and Race Database
The Fashion and Race Database is an online platform filled with 'open-source tools' that expand the narrative of fashion history and challenge mis-representation within the fashion system.

Material Connexion
The Material Connexion online database provides almost 10,000 material profiles that include images and information including properties, processing, and sustainability. A short and simple database tutorial for guidance is available on how to search materials based on a list of helpful criteria, saving your materials for a project and more.
Mintel
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Mintel Academic offers comprehensive research reports on consumer markets and products in U.S., related demographic data and analysis, and articles on trends in global consumer markets.
Vogue Archive
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Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US Edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.
WGSN
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A trend forecasting company providing global trend insights, curated data, and industry expertise on consumer trends.
Women's Wear Daily Online (WWD)
Full access to the Women's Wear Daily website. Only 10 Columbia users can access the website at one time.
Note: Register for an account using your Columbia College email address.
Women's Wear Daily Archive (1910 - 1 year ago: Proquest)
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Information on the history and business of twentieth-century fashion through the digitized archive of WWD, the leading fashion-industry trade paper since 1910.

FASHION AND ART

Artstor
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Features images from some of the world's leading museums, photo archives, scholars, and artists. It is a comprehensive image resource available for educational and scholarly use, with many rare and important collections available nowhere else.

ARTstor | Fashion and Costume Guide
Highlights Artstor content related to fashion and costume, including images of historical fashion, costumes, designers, and fashion shows.

Fashion Studies Online: The Videofashion Library
Videos that retrace the history of fashion.
Sourcing Journal
Global resource for staying up-to-date with company news, in-depth expert analysis and Q&As with industry fashion, retail, apparel and textile leaders--also features a section to discover new job opportunities.

BUSINESS

Business Source Elite
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Indexing and full text for periodicals and news sources covering all aspects of business, including news, economic reports, company profiles, and market research reports. Look for the COMPANY PROFILE link in black band at top of page.
Business Insights: Essentials
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Provides company and industry information, articles, and statistical data.
Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
Global in focus---bringing fashion business to life with real-world cases on challenges facing the business of fashion. Develop essential business skills required to tackle important issues such as sustainability, technology, ethics, and leadership.
New York Times (Proquest) (1980-present)
An American daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide influence and readership. Nicknamed "the Gray Lady," the Times has long been regarded within the industry as a national "newspaper of record."
Nexis Uni
Includes news coverage, legal cases, and business information.
Statista
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A large, user-friendly statistics portal with a global scope. Find infographics, in-depth dossiers and reports, and Powerpoint slides, along with original source details.
Wall Street Journal Online (1984-present)
An American business-focused, English-language international daily newspaper based in New York City.

RESEARCH TIP: For more business information -- see the Research Guide for Introduction to Management and Entrepreneurhip