Digital Initiatives
Treasures at Your Fingertips
The FIT Library has embarked on a number of exciting digital initiatives. Every day, new materials are added to our digital collections, whether it's video of fashion icons speaking on campus, or high-resolution digitizations of French fashion illustrations. Please explore some of our digital initiatives listed below.
FIT Institutional Repository
A platform created by the Gladys Marcus Library to showcase everything that makes FIT a unique educational institution. This open access digital archive is designed to collect, preserve, and provide access to the intellectual and creative output of the FIT community.
Archive on Demand
An online video platform of lectures, events, and instruction curated by the FIT Library.
The FIT Designer Files
A collection of tens of thousands of fashion images curated by the FIT Library over the course of decades. This collection includes magazine and newspaper clippings, runway shots, fashion illustrations and promotional materials. Access is restricted to members of the FIT community.
SPARC Digital
A platform created by the FIT Library's Special Collections and College Archives to showcase the rare and unique materials from our collections that have been digitized, including original fashion sketches, photographs, illustrations, and historic fashion plates.
Fashion Calendar Research Database
From 1941 to 2014, Ruth Finley published the Fashion Calendar, an independent, weekly periodical that served as the official scheduling clearinghouse for the American fashion industry. Digitized by the Fashion Institute of Technology, the Fashion Calendar is now searchable, graphable and mappable.
FITDIL
The FIT Digital Image Library (FITDIL) is an online digital repository of art history images for FIT's History of Art department. Access to the majority of content is restricted to members of the FIT community. Check here for more information.
FIT Authors
An initiative of the FIT Library to showcase the scholarship and creativity of the FIT community, as well as to promote our collections.
The Bannerstone Project
Led by Professor Anna Blume (History of Art Dept.), this initiative is a resource for the study of the aesthetically complex, anomalous ancient Native American lithics known as bannerstones.
The FITting Room
An augmented reality (AR) experience that allows users to “try on” rare and unique materials from the FIT Library’s Special Collections and College Archives (SPARC). With a variety of hats, scarves, and earrings featured in original fashion sketches by legendary artists, this AR experience brings historic source material to life.
