Fashion Merchandising & Management

Historical fashion illustrations digitized from original sources. Browse by period: Empire, Georgian, Regency, Romantic, Victorian, Late Victorian, Edwardian.

Over 6,200 hand-colored, finely detailed fashion illustrations produced between 1780 and 1880 for British and American fashion magazines.

This collection contains ephemeral and archival collections from the Institute and its Irene Lewisohn Costume Institute Library, with subsets highlighting fashion plates, sketches, and exhibition binders.

The FIDM Museum Collections span more than 15,000 fashion objects dating primarily from the eighteenth century to the present, and 200,000 Special Collection artifacts. Collections include: women's haute couture and ready-to-wear, menswear, accessories, textiles, jewelry, fragrance, film costumes, and world dress, as well as fashion magazines, photographs, and design archives.

CoPA-Online contains over 55,000 scanned images (garments & pattern schematics) from 61,000 commercially produced patterns, dating back to 1847.

Includes suggested links for digital fashion and costume collections, fashion drawings and sketches, and textiles.