Basics
Business database including information on companies, industries, and products. Includes full text of WWD: Women’s Wear Daily and indexes FN: Footwear News, 20/20, and some other fashion trade publications.
Industry overview database, featuring five year outlook, supply chain analysis, and SWOT analysis.
International industry reports.
Industry reports with an emphasis on consumer research.
Staying Current
Current business and news database. Includes major national newspapers.
Make your own account through Rutgers.
Make your own account through Rutgers.
List of Fashion Industry Trade Magazines and Websites (Charles C. Sherrod Library, East Tennessee University)
These are on the open Web. Some are free, others subscription.
Business of Fashion (website)
Some freebies, but professional subscription runs $19.95 per month.
GQ.com (Gentlemen’s Quarterly)
Fashion magazine for men. Subscription item, but some free current content.
For Your Other Research Needs
General academic and popular magazines and journals.
Art Index Retrospective (H.W. Wilson)
Covers Art Index from 1929 to 1984.
Database of over 2 million images in art and art history.
Every issue of Vogue since its beginning.