Fashion History: Visual Research

Increasing your visual "vocabulary" will help you develop design ideas.  Any sort of image can provide inspiration and sources of images are limited only by your imagination.  

Some images may be protected by copyright -  ALL images from the UIW library's electronic resources are protected by copyright.

Copyright Research Guide

•   Artstor

◊   Contains more than one million searchable images. 

◊   Set up an account to save images to folders.  Use your university e-mail address to create an account.

◊   See the Artstor LibGuide for more information on using the database effectively. 

•   Bloomsbury Fashion Central

◊   Set up an account to save searches.  Use your university e-mail address to create an account.

•   Vogue Archive

       ◊   Contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (U.S. edition), 1892 to the present.

•   Oxford Art Online  

       ◊   Only one user can access at a time. 

•   Credo Reference 

◊   Has an Image Search function.   

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has instituted an open access policy for images of works it believes to be in the public domain.  You

can use these images without requesting permission or paying a fee.  Look for this symbol: 

•  Metropolitan Museum of Art