Fashion Design

Art & Architecture Complete is a robust art research database providing full-text art journals, magazines and books, plus detailed indexing and abstracts. Useful for artists, art scholars and designers, it covers fine, decorative and commercial art, as well as architecture and architectural design.

ARTstor is a nonprofit digital library of more than one million images in the arts, architecture, humanities, and social sciences with a suite of software tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. For off-campus access search with JSTOR. Licensed by HCC Curriculum Innovation Centers.

Offers fully cross-searchable access to a range of Berg content collections including the Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion online, e-books, reference works, images, and more. (Full-text)

Credo is an easy-to-use tool for starting research. Gather background information on your topic from hundreds of full-text encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, quotations, and subject-specific titles, as well as 500,000+ images and audio files and over 1,000 videos. *For fashion related content, check out the Fashion in Credo LibGuide: https://library.hccs.edu/LibGuides/Credo

Explore 58,207,016 artworks, artefacts, books, films and music from European museums, galleries, libraries and archives. Explore "Collections" for the Fashion themed Collection of items.

"Flip" through 28 of your favorite magazines, such as Time, Imagine FX, and The New Yorker. Learn to Use Flipster

The Fashion Archive at Houston Community College consists of approximately 506 digitized items from a 7,000+ piece physical collection that goes back to the 1740's including historical and contemporary garments, shoes, hats, bags, and other apparel accessories. The archive includes 3 collections (Historical, Traditional Costume and Alumni) emphasizing many locally based designers and couture pieces donated by Texas socialites.

Use this link from an HCC campus to register a WGSN account. Once registered, use that account to access WGSN from anywhere. If you are unable to come to an HCC campus to set-up your account, please contact your course instructor for assistance.

Women's Wear Daily is a fashion-industry trade journal and a leading resource for the fashion industry. WWD delivers information and intelligence on changing trends and breaking news in the men and women's fashion, beauty and retail industries with a readership composed largely of retailers, designers, manufacturers, marketers, financiers, media executives, advertising agencies, socialites and trend makers. (Wikipedia)