RESOURCES
Explore a curated list of what to read, listen to and watch, to learn more about your clothes.
Fashion Transparency Index
Website
The world's largest fashion brands and retailers reviewed and ranked according to their disclosure on social and environmental policies, practices, and impacts.
The True Cost
YouTube
The True Cost is a groundbreaking documentary film that pulls back the curtain on the untold story and asks us to consider, who really pays the price for our clothing?
Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF)
Website
A research, education and knowledge exchange centre at the University of the Arts London, focused on fashion's ecological, social, economic, and cultural agendas.
Ellen Macarthur Foundation
Website
A charity committed to creating a circular economy, which is designed to eliminate waste and pollution, circulate products and materials (at their highest value), and regenerate nature.
Fashion Your Future: Think more like a fashion designer
YouTube
This talk takes the idea of design thinking and translates it into a series of very practical tips that you can employ yourself, every day to help you think more optimistically in times of uncertainty and ambiguity.
Fashion History Timeline
Website
Fashion history knowledge featuring objects and artworks from over one hundred museums and libraries that span the globe. It includes well-researched, accessibly written entries on artworks, garments, and films.
WGSN
Website
The world's leading consumer trend forecaster providing global trend insights, expertly curated data and industry expertise to understand consumer behaviour and lifestyles.
The September Issue
Film
A behind-the-scenes look at Vogue's legendary editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team of larger-than-life editors, as they create the must-have bible of fashion: The September Issue.
The Business of Fashion Podcast
Podcast
An essential daily resource for fashion creatives, executives and entrepreneurs in over 200 countries.
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Film
Diana Vreeland wasn't just a tastemaker; she created the whole idea of tastemaking. She was the oracle of style, a woman who defined the way we looked at couture. Across a career that spanned half a century, she edited Harper's Bazaar and Vogue, discovered Lauren Bacall (and innumerable others) and was style consultant to Jackie Onassis.
7 Days Out
YouTube
During Paris Fashion Week, the Chanel team hustles to put the finishing touches on an extravagant runway show designed by fashion icon Karl Lagerfeld.
Threaducation
YouTube
A YouTube channel that teaches you more about the fashion industry from histories of famous designers to fashion show reviews, industry updates, and more.
Legislation Tracker
Website
A list of global textiles legislation surrounding people and environmental topics. Track legislation that is adopted, in review, proposed or upcoming.
Trashion
YouTube
This documentary exposes the hidden export of plastic waste to the Global South, fuelled by the growing production of cheap, synthetic clothing made by brands in the Global North.
High Fashion to High Vis
Website
A report on Australia's fashion and textile ecosystem, discussing the economic and workforce contribution, current challenges, and future development.
Fundamentals of Garment Design by BUNKA
Ebook
Overview of fashion, fashion history, garment classification, production processes, tools and more.
Bloomsbury Fashion Central
Website
A digital hub for research in fashion and dress. Content includes major reference works, exclusive articles, scholarly eBooks, 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.
Global Fashion Image Library
Vogue Archive
Dries
Film
For the first time, fashion designer Dries Van Noten allows a filmmaker to accompany him in his creative process and rich home life. For an entire year, Reiner Holzemer documented the precise steps that Dries takes to conceive of four collections, the rich fabrics, embroidery, and prints exclusive to his designs.
Romy Talks Fashion
Podcast
Conversations and stories with people from the fashion industry with the goal to peel the layers back and get to the bottom of what really happens in the mysterious spheres of fashion.
The Chiffon Trenches - André Leon Talley
Book
From the pages of Vogue to the runways of Paris, this “captivating” (Time) memoir by a legendary style icon captures the fashion world from the inside out, in its most glamorous and most cutthroat moments.
Glossy: The inside story of Vogue
Book
Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue.
Dior and I
Film
A tantalising "behind-the-seams" glimpse at the making of Raf Simons' first haute couture collection for Christian Dior in 2012. Established in the fashion world as a minimalist designer, Simons has both his reputation and the legacy of Dior on the line when appointed Creative Director of the iconic Parisian brand.