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A unique collection at Chelsea Library

Chelsea Library has a fantastic collection of books focusing on fashion and costume, including a large archive of magazines.

The Costume Collection represents a wonderful source of ideas, information and practical advice on the subject of costume and fashion from the earliest times to the present, and looking into the future.

Fashion magazines

The library also holds magazines dedicated to contemporary dress, such as:

• Vogue - issues from as early as the 1920s
• Vanity Fair
• L'Officiel
• Tailor and Cutter
• Manufacturing Clothier
• La Belle Assemblee
• The Ladies' Cabinet - depicted contemporary fashion of the day in the nineteenth century

If you are a researcher, student of dress or just interested for pleasure, our contemporary and historical collection, used in conjunction with that of the nearby Victoria and Albert Museum in South Kensington, is a first class archive.

• You may also be interested in the Berg Fashion library, an online database of text and images of world dress and fashion throughout history.

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