Fashion (including cosmetics): Industry Magazines and Resources
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The library has a wealth of resources to help broaden your knowledge and understanding of the industry:
- Key industry magazines and journals.
- Key industry resources, look out for case studies, fashion business resources, sustainability and ethics, and find industry contacts and influencers.
- Sustainability and ethics resources.
- General news resources.
Some of the sources below you will access via BCU library subscriptions and some will be freely available online.
Learn to assess the credibility of your sources in our online course: Navigating the Library (Moodle).
Industry magazines and journals
Industry specific magazines and journals for knowledge of your sector and inspiration. If you are looking for academic/scholarly or peer reviewed journals, see the academic journals and articles page.
- Black Ballad Black Ballad is a UK based lifestyle platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of black British women.
Industry Resources
Look out for case studies, fashion business resources, find industry contacts and influencers.
- Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases This link opens in a new window
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Search for case studies to support the development of essential business skills required in the fashion industry. - Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive online collection for the interdisciplinary study of dress and costume history, design and making, and offers an indispensable scholarly and educational resource to support the study of dress history, costume studies and costume design. - Business of Fashion This link opens in a new windowDaily news, analysis, commentary and features for the fashion community. Register for free access to articles and alerts. Please note that as BCU does not subscribe to Business of Fashion, free registration does not include access to case studies, online courses, special edition issues, livestreams and events.
- Drapers Online This link opens in a new windowOnline full-text access to Drapers plus supplementary news, commentary and features on fashion business, fashion companies and fashion retail.
- Fashion Monitor This link opens in a new windowDiscover fashion contacts and influencers and keep up to date with the latest fashion news and events.
- Just StyleThe online news, insight and research portal for the apparel and textile industry - you can access it via Nexis
- Vogue Archive This link opens in a new window
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Search or browse the American edition of Vogue magazine from the very first issue in 1892 to present day.
Sustainability and Ethics
Resources on sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry.
Some library subscriptions included, as well as some freely available resources.
Remember to evaluate information you find online and assess credibility, for help see our online course: Navigating the Library.
- Common Objective This link opens in a new windowBusiness database for the ethical and sustainable fashion industry from the Ethical Fashion Forum.
- Fashion Transparency IndexReview of the 200 largest global fashion brands and retailers, ranked according to how much they disclose about their social and environmental policies ...
- The Industry We WantMeasures the state of affairs of the garment and footwear industry for shared accountability and transparency.
- NatrueInternational Natural and Organic Cosmetics Association, is a Brussels-based international non-profit association whose mission is to protect and promote authentic natural and organic cosmetics for the benefit of consumers worldwide.
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General news
General news sources, national and international, local and regional.
- Nexis This link opens in a new window
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Search or browse Nexis for news, business and companies information including from UK and International local and regional newspapers - Gale OneFile News This link opens in a new window
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Browse or search for articles from UK and international newspapers