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Bloomsbury Fashion Central has a stylish new home - take a look!

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“Bloomsbury Fashion Central more than meets its promise to serve as the central source for interdisciplinary research on fashion and dress." — Library Journal

It's live!

Welcome to Bloomsbury Fashion Central's new home

We are delighted to present Bloomsbury Fashion Central in its new home!

The platform has been extensively enhanced with an array of new features in response to user research and these make it easier to navigate, search and browse across the collections and content types.

It also now integrates access to the Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive and has been designed to be the ultimate interdisciplinary hub for teaching, learning and research in fashion and dress.

Explore the new platform

Take a tour of the new platform

Join us as we guide you through the site highlights

To help you get the most out of the platform, click to watch a ‘Take a tour’ video which shows you everything you need to know about navigating the new site.

We will show you a range of new features and how to:

• Browse by five starter categories including Content Type, Organizations and Design Houses, People, Period, Place

• Explore Collection pages, for each of the Fashion Central collections - bringing together key content types and curated browse options

• Harness teaching tools and interactive learning resources to support course delivery

• Research around a topic using the improved Related Content and Recently Viewed features, or search for relevant keywords within books or encyclopedias

• Discover more than 17,000 images of fashion objects in museum collections globally

• Visit the Museum Collections pagegiving a visual sense of holdings before you explore contextual information and images

• Get to grips with iconic fashion shows using Fashion Show Image Collections and fashion show videos from which you can clip, search within transcripts and view descriptive captions

• Step into the world of fashion business using case studies and their Extended Teaching Notes

Watch the video tour

Experience the "euphoria" of reinvention and Dior's New Look

Read the new Featured Content on Invention and Reinvention

“Your dresses have such a new look”
- Carmel Snow, editor-in-chief of Harper’s Bazaar to Christian Dior

The New Look was the name given to a style of women’s clothing launched by Christian Dior in his first haute couture collection presented in Paris in 1947. We felt this was a fitting theme for our opening feature now that Bloomsbury Fashion Central has a new look of its own which we’re delighted to share with our users.

Dior’s New Look made its impact through a reimagination of form, style and structure and we hope that you will enjoy the redesigned visuals and experience when discovering our fashion resources once more.

Invention and reinvention embody the spirit of fashion and evolving approaches to the adornment of the body. We've therefore curated a selection of the best chapters, articles, videos and images from across the site which explore the topic - from the sparks of creative inspiration that lead to the reality of product innovation, to fearless rebranding and the ethical ingenuity of reuse and recycling.

Read about Invention and Reinvention

Help for users and how to contact us

• For more information or queries on how to use the platform, please visit our
How To Use page.

• For questions about access methods and the technical updates to the new platform visit the FAQs page.

• For all other queries or to request a free trial, please contact us at OnlineSalesUS@bloomsbury.com

Featured content image is courtesy of Getty Images.