• Images and Museum Partnerships
Subscribers, start exploring the vast image bank now – enter a search term in the box above and tick the 'images only' box.
The Berg Fashion Library includes a colour image bank of over 5000 images images, including:
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2000 from the print Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion
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1600 from the Victoria and Albert Museum's internationally renowned fashion collection: read more
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600 images from MoMu Fashion Museum, Belgium: Read more
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230 sample images, from collections including the London College of Fashion and The Museum at FIT
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New! 1000 of 2000 images to come from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute collection: Read more
- New! 1000 images from the Commercial Pattern Archive database, CoPA, which will provide a unique tool for researchers and designers to recreate or date clothing from 1868 to 2000. Read more
We will be adding to the image bank on a regular basis. In 2012, we will continue to upload the 2000 images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute collection and the Commercial Pattern Archive database, CoPA.
NEW! Bloomsbury Publishing Plc has acquired fashion photographer Niall McInerney's image archive. Featuring over 600,000 high-quality images dating from the 1970s until 2000, this international archive documents key changes over a vibrant period in fashion history and will work alongside the Berg Fashion Library. The new resource will become available in 2013. Read more
NEW! Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. is delighted to announce a new partnership between the award-winning Berg Fashion Library and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. With this exciting addition to the Berg Fashion Library the Museum will be sharing c.2500 high quality images from their world-renowned costume and textiles collection. The images will go live on the Berg Fashion Library in 2013. Read more
The Berg Fashion Library enables users to locate images as well as reference and research materials on the subject of costume and dress. A core value of the Berg Fashion Library is to increase the accessibility of fashion objects held in disparate collections across the world through sophisticated search and browse. The Berg Fashion Library’s classification system makes it easier for students, scholars and curators to see clothing and related objects that they otherwise might not know existed, and to link to relevant content providing historical and cultural context. Thumbnail images from the museum collection are displayed within the site, and users are able to click through to the collection website for further information.
