The Best of 2024

What has everyone been reading this year? Take a look at some of our most viewed content.

Bloomsbury Fashion Central is a dynamic digital hub for interdisciplinary research in fashion and dress. Content is peer reviewed by industry and academic experts and includes interconnected major reference works, exclusive articles, scholarly books, case studies, biographies, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, textbooks, video content, runway and backstage photos from fashion shows, and tens of thousands of images from museums around the world.

This year we also added two new video collections: Bloomsbury Digital Fashion Masterclasses and Bloomsbury Historic Dress in Detail.

With such a large range of resources, where should you start?

We’ve picked some of the most viewed content for you to explore, all free to access until the end of January 2025.

• ‘Introduction’, Islamic Fashion and Anti-fashion: New Perspectives from Europe and North America, chapter from the Berg Fashion Library
• ‘The Textile Industry’, J.J. Pizzuto’s Fabric Science: 12th Edition, chapter from the Fairchild Books Library
• Alexander McQueen, Fall/Winter 1996 article from the Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive
• Ethnicity in Theatrical Fashion Shows: Chinoiserie in Galliano’s Work for Christian Dior article from the Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive
• Attracting Millennials to the Luxury Market business case from Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
• ‘Introduction II: Fashionable Masculinity: The Clothing of Matthäus and Veit Konrad Schwarz’, The First Book of Fashion, chapter from the Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library
• Anne-Christine Polet of Stitch video from Bloomsbury Digital Fashion Masterclasses
• Modernism and Fashion 1910-1939 video from Bloomsbury Historic Dress in Detail

Looking for teaching and learning resources? Ours are always free, and here are some of the most popular from this year:

• Subject Guide: Anthropology of Fashion
• Lesson Plan: How to Analyze a Fashion Collection
• Bibliographic Guide: The Role of Dress in Sexual Objectification

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Image credit: Taken from Bloomsbury Historic Dress in Detail video by Crow’s Eye Productions