Berg Fashion LibraryOffers comprehensive coverage of dress and fashion around the world by providing access to interdisciplinary and integrated image, book and journal content.
Key content available now:
The Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion (2010; 10 volumes)
E-Book collection: full text of approximately 60 Berg fashion monographs with regular updates
An extensive colour image bank with thumbnails that link through to enhanced content. This includes 1,600 images from the V&A Museum’s internationally renowned fashion collection; 2,000 images from the print encyclopedia; 600 images from MoMu Fashion Museum, Belgium; and 200 sample images, from collections including the London College of Fashion and The Museum at FIT
Extra reference resources, such as an A-Z of Fashion* and The Dictionary of Fashion History by Valerie Cumming, C.W. Cunnington and P.E. Cunnington
Links to E-Journals: cross-searchable functionality with Berg fashion e-journals Fashion Theory, Fashion Practice, and Textile for mutual subscribers
Classic and Modern Writings on Fashion: 67 seminal pieces and primary documents on the subject of fashion
Museum Directory
Links at article level to articles in Oxford Art Online
From August 2011 onwards, 2,000 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute collection
Further Encyclopedia articles and new E-Books
Lesson plans and other teaching resources