Until December 13th VDA community has temporary access to Bloomsbury Publishing databases on Bloomsbury Fashion Central:
- Fairchild Books Library – features full-text versions from the world’s leading higher education fashion textbook publisher, Fairchild Books. Video presentation
- Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases – Cases are a popular and effective educational tool for students to learn and apply business concepts to real-life situations, strategies, and dilemmas. Video presentation
- Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive – this resource showcases more than 775,000 newly-digitized and high-quality images that feature forty years of contemporary fashion history along with a timeline, lesson plans, and videos to create a rich educational resource. Video presentation
- Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive – exhibits almost 3,000 spectacular fashion shows presented in Paris, London, New York, and Milan by 460 international designers, and covers the period 1979 to 2003. Video presentation
- Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library – is the first comprehensive online collection for the interdisciplinary study of dress and costume history, design and making. Video presentation
- Bloomsbury Digital Fashion Masterclasses – brings together unique video masterclasses from industry innovators giving you extensive insider expertise. Accompanied by written business case studies, this collection is designed to enhance your teaching and studies. Video presentation
- Bloomsbury Historic Dress in Detail –includes exclusive videos with complementary resources and articles, ideal for teaching and study. They explore historical context and materials, fastenings and garment details, how garments were made, and how they were worn. Video presentation.
Access methods:
1. Free access from VDA computers.
2. Remote access via EZproxy.
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You might be interested in:
Digital Fashion: Theory, Practice, Implications (Michael R. Spicher, Sara Emilia Bernat and Doris Domoszlai-Lantner (eds), 2024)
Draping for Apparel Design: 4th Edition (Helen Joseph-Armstrong and Susan P. Ashdown, 2022)
Islamicate Textiles: Fashion, Fabric, and Ritual (Faegheh Shirazi, 2023)
Style Wise: A Practical Guide to Becoming a Fashion Stylist (Jenny B. Davis, 2024)
Sustainable Fashion: Take Action: 3rd Edition (Connie Ulasewicz and Janet Hethorn, 2023).
Textiles: Concepts and Principles: 4th Edition (Virginia Hencken Elsasser and Julia Ridgway Sharp, 2022)
Textiles and Fashion: From Fabric Construction to Surface Treatments (Jenny Udale, 2023)
The Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Film and Television Costume Design: Vol. 1: Themes and Issues (Deborah Nadoolman Landis (gen. ed.), 2023)
f you have any feedback or questions, let us know by e-mail at vaida.jankauskaite@vda.lt.
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