FIT username & password required for access to Digital Library.

• WWD Online (Women's Wear Daily)  (has current information and photos, plus Archive back to 1994)

• EBSCO Databases - Multiple Databases Search [Open EBSCOhost Web]  (has articles from more general and popular magazines)

• WGSN-EDU (Worth Global Style Network)  (has news and lots of photos of current designer collections)

• Custom Newspapers [Gale]  (has New York Times, L.A. Times full text)

• DAAI: Design & Applied Arts Index [CSA Illumina] (good for accessories and costume designers)

• Art Full Text

• Art Full Text and Art Index Retrospective 1929-1984 [1929 - Current]

• Gale Virtual Reference Library

Most can be searched by using the designer or design company name as the keyword.

• costume designers biography

• costume designers [country or state]

• fashion designers biography

• fashion designers [country or state]

• theatrical costume designers

Also search in StyleCat  by designer name, e.g. Adrian, Chanel, Geoffrey Beene, etc.

• Articles and clippings filed by Designer.  Some biographical information, and a representative sampling of the designer's work.  Good for older, more established designers.  For current designers, or for more current information on older or more established designers, use the specialized databases in Digital Library listed above.  See the binder in Periodicals Services for a complete list of designers who are included in the files.

• These are some of the most frequently used books that contain brief biographical information on designers.  They are mostly encyclopedias and dictionaries.  For whole books about specific designers or to find additional copies of these books, use StyleCat  .  There is also a lengthy list of books about designers in the Fashion bibliography.

Calasibetta, Charlotte Mankey, and Phyllis Tortora.  The Fairchild Dictionary of Fashion.  3rd ed.  New York: Fairchild, 2003.
Reference Stacks    TT 503 .C25 2003

Callan, Georgina O’Hara.  The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Fashion and Fashion Designers.  Rev., expanded and updated ed.  New York: Thames and Hudson, 1998.
Reference Stacks    GT 507 .O53 1998

Contemporary Designers.  Ed. by Sara Pendergast.  3rd ed.  Detroit: St. James Press, 1997.
Reference Stacks    NK 1390 .C655 1997

Contemporary Fashion.  Ed. by Taryn Benbow-Pfalzgraf.  2nd ed.  Detroit: St. James Press, 2002.
Reference Desk, Section A    TT 505 .A1 C66 2002
Also available on Digital Library through Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Fashion Now 2:  i-D Selects 160 of its Favourite Fashion Designers from around the World.  Ed. by Terry Jones and Susie Rushton.  Köln: Taschen, 2005.
Reference Desk, Section A    GT 596 .F363 2005

Golbin, Pamela.  Fashion Designers.  New York: Watson-Guptill, 2001.
Reference Desk, Section A    TT 505 .A1 G6  2001

Kellogg, Ann T., et al.  In an Influential Fashion: An Encyclopedia of Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Fashion Designers and Retailers Who Transformed Dress.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.
Reference Stacks    TT 505 .A1 I5 2002

Reilly, Maureen E. Lynn.  California Couture.  Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2000.
Art Reference    TT 505 .A1 R45 2000

Schoeffler, O. E., and William Gale.  Esquire's Encyclopedia of 20th Century Men's Fashion.  New York: McGraw-Hill, 1973.
Reference Desk, Section A    TT 617 .S36

Steele, Valerie, ed.  Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion.   3 vols.  Detroit: Thomson/Gale, 2005.
Reference Stacks     GT 507 .E53 2005
Also available on Digital Library through Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Stegemeyer, Anne.  Who's Who in Fashion.  4th ed.  New York: Fairchild, 2004.
Reference Desk, Section A    TT 505 .A1 S74 2004

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