My fashion isn’t

This image of the exhibition, “Ballgowns: British Glamour since 1950” belongs to the Victoria & Albert Museum, since it was taken by an in-house photographer for the museum.

FIT lives at the intersection of art and business, and of preservation vs. use. One topic that is crucial to each of these questions is, “Who owns the rights to that?” I’m thankful to say that our sister institution, the Victoria & Albert Museum, has come up with some guidelines to address these questions:

http://blog.europeana.eu/2014/01/who-owns-fashion-europeana-fashion-releases-ipr-guidelines/

(I would normally put a gorgeous image from the Berg Fashion Library here to illustrate my point, but it wouldn’t really be legal, so you’ll have to click through here. But you can only use BFL if you are an FIT student, staff or faculty person.)

In the study of fashion, images are a central resource. Our resource, the Berg Fashion Library (part of Bloomsbury Fashion Central), provides a huge library of images for students and faculty to work from.

You can find out a lot more about how to find good images for your inspiration or other research here:

http://fitnyc.libguides.com/images

This issue of “who gets credit for what?” is such an important part of creative, business, and scholarly life that we have a research guide about it:

http://fitnyc.libguides.com/intellectualproperty

Go make fashion and own it! And happy 2017!