Fashion & Design

Fashion

Art and Culture Network - Fashion design - A cross-disciplinary gateway to the world of contemporary arts. The section on design arts covers fashion, advertising, and graphic, industrial, information and interior design.

British Vogue Fashion shows - News updates and photos from key collections back to the Autumn/Winter 2001-02 season.

Costume Gallery - Hosts over 10,000 web pages, 45,000 images, and two databases of fashion and costume history

Fashion and Costume history resources - Link to resources for the history of fashion and costume, from the University of Arizona Library.

London College of Fashion Archive - from VADS

The Spectacular female body - Subtitled "Dress, fashion and modernity in Victorian women's magazines". Illustrated essays on the reform of women's dress in the 19th century and a seminar adapted from a lecture that was presented at the Locating the Victorians Conference, hosted by the Science Museum, London, in July 2001. Copyright Kay Boardman.

Body Modification

Bodies of culture: a world tour of body modification - Exhibition showing historical examples of body modification including tattooing, piercing and body painting.

Tattoos, piercings and body markings - National Geographic feature, with photographs by Chris Rainier.

Design & Designers

Art and Culture Network - Design arts - A cross-disciplinary gateway to the world of contemporary arts. The section on design arts covers fashion, advertising, and graphic, industrial, information and interior design.

Time: The Design 100 - The Design 100 compiled in 2007 by Time magazine and featuring sections on Virtuosos, Interiors, Textiles, Furniture, Architecture, Shopping, Packaging, Fashion etc.

Philippe Starck - Website produced by Andrew Davis examining the variety of projects that Starck has been involved in from the mid-sixties to 1991.