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Heavenly bodies : fashion and the Catholic imagination |
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The Geographies of Fashion : Consumption, Space, and Value |
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Green Fashion : Volume 1 |
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Textiles and Clothing Sustainability : Recycled and Upcycled Textiles and Fashion |
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| 646.4 | Patternmaking |
| 746 | Textiles |
| 746.92 | Fashion Designers |
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Vivienne Westwood | Patternmaking | Steampunk | Sewing |
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Print Journals
International Textile Report
Fashion Quarterly (Hawke's Bay)
Fashion Quarterly (Tairāwhiti)
Harper's Bazaar
Marie Claire
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Simply You : Style Guide (Hawke's Bay)
Simply You: Style Guide (Tairāwhiti)
Textile Fibre Forum : The Fibre Magazine of the Australian Region (Hawke's Bay)
Textile Fibre Forum (Tairāwhiti)
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Vogue (Hawke's Bay)
Vogue (Tairāwhiti)
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Fashion Theory
Analysis of fashion culture ranging from foot-binding to fashion advertising.
Journal of Fashion Marketing and Management
Technical Textiles International
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Australia/NZ Reference Centre
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Index New Zealand (INNZ)
Indexes and abstracts selected New Zealand serial publications, including newspapers and 300 journals about New Zealand and the South Pacific. Subjects include general interest material, social research, current affairs, the arts and humanities. Coverage is from 1987. No full-text.
New Zealand National Union Catalogue - Te Puna
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email| studysupportak@eit.ac.nz
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Multidisciplinary database providing full-text of nearly 2,000 general reference publications back to 1975. Includes full text reference books, biographies, primary source documents, and an image collection of photos, maps and flags. This database is updated daily via EBSCOhost.
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Science Direct Social Sciences and Humanities Journals Collection (College Edition) (includes Business)
Provides access to peer-reviewed full-text journals not available elsewhere online. Subjects include Business, Management, Accounting, Economics, Finance, Psychology, Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities. To limit your search to find full-text only, go to Advanced Search and select Subscribed publications and Open Access articles.
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email| studysupportak@eit.ac.nz
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Recommended Websites
Elle
Insider guide to fashion’s most fabulous.
Remix
Showcasing the very latest international and New Zealand trends in fashion, culture, tech, music, film, art, entertainment, beauty & grooming and lifestyle.
The New Zealand Fashion Museum
NZFM is an online museum dedicated to the curation of New Zealand's rich fashion past, making it relevant for the present and future.
ideaschool---fashion
EIT's ideaschool
staff and students work.
Everyone is aware of YouTube but as a student of EIT you also have access to the below resources to locate quality content.
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Click here to see eTV, a new resource you can access from the Library. The On Demand section lets you view and download recordings from TV and videos kept in the Library and Shop.The Live Channels feature lets you live stream TV channels. Use My eTV to store your favourite programmes, personal details and saved searches.
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eTV Programmes
Designer People: Zandra Rhodes
Ever Wondered? Fashion & Textiles
Christian Dior Couture Fall/Winter 2013-14 Show
LinkedIn Learning has a large number of video learning resources in business, design, marketing, photography, video, music, animation, education, IT, software and much more.LinkedIn Learning can be used to improve your technology skills, or other skills required as part of your coursework - take a look or talk to your tutor to discuss what might complement your learning.
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