Research Guides: Fashion Techniques and Design (F113): Databases

WGSN This link opens in a new window
The leading online trend-analysis and research service providing creative and business intelligence for the apparel, style, design and retail industries. It delivers accurate trend forecasting and analysis up to two years in advance.

WWD Online
**For OFF-CAMPUS access, please create a user account using your George Brown College email address here: https://uls.wwd.com/organization/signup/73

Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
Encyclopedia and image database covering visual arts and design from prehistory to the present (worldwide in scope but strongest in Western art).
Scott’s Ontario Directories This link opens in a new window
Search company information on 75,000 Ontario companies, by product type, industry classification number, company name, geographic and demographic characteristics.
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Vogue Archive (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists, and illustrators of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
WWD Women's Wear Daily Archive (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
The Women's Wear Daily Archive allows users to explore influences on the fashion and beauty industry. It contains the full run of past print issues and supplements and will be updated biannually with more recent issues. Users can explore every page of every issue since 1910, scanned cover to cover, including all advertisements and images, in high resolution and full color, presented in page-image format with searchable text.

Windowswear Pro
This unique fashion database analyzes 43528 windows from 605 brands in 14 cities around the world. It tracks design inspirations, and colour, style and mannequin trends globally.