Library: Fashion Merchandising: Multimedia

DVDs in the Library

McQueen by a film by Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedguie
Call Number: TT505.M37 M395 2018
Date: 2018
A personal look at the extraordinary life, career, and artistry of Alexander McQueen. Through exclusive interviews with his closest friends and family, recovered archives, exquisite visuals and music, it is an authentic celebration and thrilling portrait of an inspired yet tortured fashion visionary.
Textiles [videorecording] : dyeing and printing by Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Call Number: TT852 .T49 2012
Date: 2012
Computerization has taken fabric-printing to new levels, allowing for more designs, more colors, and softer fabrics. This program explores technological advances in printing and dyeing, giving a detailed look at flat-bed, carousel, roll-screen, and transfer method of producing patterns on cloth.
Fashion through the ages: the history of costume by / producer, George H. Russell ; author, Shirley Dye
Call Number: GT511 .F37 2004
Date: 2004

Fast Fashion: The Real Price of Low-Cost Fashion
The planet is being overwhelmed with clothes. Close to 56 million tons of clothes are sold every year. In Europe, the amount purchased has almost doubled since the year 2000. Thanks to fast disposable fashion, you can constantly renew your wardrobe. But producing clothes at such a low price has a very high environmental cost. This film explores the bad practices of the textile industry, the most polluting industry in the world after oil.
Framing Lesbian Fashion
A landmark 1992 film, Framing Lesbian Fashion looks at the evolution of lesbian attire and identity -butch/femme, flannel, androgyny, cross-dressing and drag, queer fluorescent, S/M and leather, lipstick and more. Featuring interviews with Sally Gearhart, JoAnn Loulan, Arlene Stein, Kitty Tsui and others, Framing Lesbian Fashion incorporates archival photos and personal stories to document the sociology and history of lesbian fashion as it existed in the early 90s, and still impacts the culture today.
Riveted: The History of Jeans
Discover the fascinating story of this iconic American garment. From their roots in slavery to the Wild West, hippies, high fashion and hip-hop, jeans are the fabric on which the history of American ideology and politics are writ large.