Volumes & Issues

Category: fashion

  • The world in pattern

    Walking past the new book shelf this week, I found a book I really like.   In V&I, I often have talked about the history of design, the history of cloth, the history of fashion, and how closely important they are to the cultures within which they exist. This book gives a rough history of…

  • Read Threads: Fashion sources for 14th century Europe

      Hi, all! Welcome to a new series. My passion is fashion history before 1700, so I thought it would be fun to write a series on both good and bad fashion history sources. These posts expand upon the FIT Library’s research guide on the subject of fashion history: FIT Library research guide on fashion…

  • Sketching for Inspiration

    Welcome back, everyone!   This talk features an FIT author! Professor Sharon Rothman will be here to talk about her new book, The Fashion Designer’s Sketchbook. In it, Rothman discusses 4 different types of creative journals, each of which feeds the author’s work at a different stage in the development of a fashion line. Her…