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You can also do a keyword search in the Search Our Collections to find a book on your topic and then click on the subject headings that index that book to find similar titles.
Seek inspiration through the pinned collection on the Pintrest board by the Museum at FIT.
Get inspiration from a Digital Library Collection from book scans and other documents held in the the Brooklyn Museum Library.
Browser collection in the FIT Museum ranging from 18th century to present day.
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This research and teaching collection includes almost 9,000 items of apparel, accessories and flat textiles from the eighteenth century to present, including substantial collections of functional clothing, technical textiles, and ethnographic costume.
With over 13,500 objects this collection spanning 300 BC to present day items in this collection include printed furnishings, dress fabrics, tapestries, textiles, and more.
Browse a number of digital collections in LAPL including the Fashion Plates, Turnabout Theatre, Photo and Movie Posters collections for inspiration.
This collection ranges from 17th century to present day. The digital archive provides research materials for all 13,000 items (costume, underwear, accessories, etc.) in the collection and around 300 objects in chronological order.
This Google Arts and Culture project features more than 400 stories created by curators from institutions all over the globe.
For inspiration, explore 898,885 items digitized from The New York Public Library's collections. Collections include prints, photographs, maps, manuscripts, streaming video, and more. Fashion collections include the Andre Fashion Illustrations from NYPL's Picture Collection, Costume of the Ladies of England, Music Division Set and Costume Design Collection, and the Creator's Studio Fashion Illustrations.
Explore more than 30,000 art works in the Costume Institute Collection.
With over 30,000 artifacts, this collection goes beyond garments and includes jewelry, handbags, hair dryers, dress forms, hatboxes, suitcases, salesmen's samples, and thousands of fashion prints, photographs, and original illustrations. with in the time span between 1700s to the present day.
View sample highlights from footwear exhibits on display ranging from Chinese bound foot shoes and ancient Egyptian sandals to chestnut crushing clogs and glamorous platforms.
This museum holds collections of over 100,000 objects of contemporary and historic dress dating back to the 16th century. Explore the object image galleries of exhibits.
LACMA's collection contains work from pre-Columbian textiles to contemporary couture and includes over 35,000 objects representing more than 100 cultures and over 2,000 years of dress and human creativity in the textile arts.
With over 20,000 garments (980 online) and accessories belonging to Canadian people from the past three centuries. This collection includes garments from Montreal designers, manufacturers, and retailers; quilts, coverlets, and other hand-made domestic textiles.
Navigate this museum' online collection of nearly 200,000 works (clothing, accessories, photographs, drawings...), of clothing in France from the 18th century to the present day.
Browse this digital collection that includes items from the 17th century to present day, with an emphasis on progressive and influential designs from the major fashion centers of Europe.
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