Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2017
The Centre for Fashion Studies was established at Stockholm University in Sweden, in July 2006 through a generous donation from the Erling Persson Family Foundation, connected to clothing manufacturer H&M.
Fashion Studies at Stockholm University is an independent, theoretical discipline with an interdisciplinary approach looking at the past, present and future, and it includes different areas of critical discourse within the humanities and social sciences. Stockholm University Library plays a key role in research and education conducted at the university, and the library works in close collaboration with all disciplines to provide adequate support to researchers and students in a rapidly changing information society. In this article I will focus on and describe the process of acquiring fashion literature at Stockholm University Library from 2006–2013.
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2. Ibid.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid.
5. Key textbooks mentioned in the article text are Y. Kawamura. Fashion-ology: an introduction to fashion studies (2005), E. Wilson. Adorned in dreams : fashion and modernity (2003); and R. Barthes. The language of fashion (2006).
6. “Savile Row Tailoring” Wikipedia. Accessed February 8th 2017. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savile_Row_tailoring
7. H&M Press release, June 17th 2009: Jimmy Choo sprider lyx och glamour på H&M i höst
8. “The New Shoe Smell: Jimmy Choo Gets Its Own Fragrance” Popsugar, October 6th 2009. Accessed February 8th 2017. http://www.popsugar.com/beauty/Jimmy-Choo-Gets-Its-Own-Fragrance-2009-10-06-131544-5475208
9. For further discussion of the influence of ‘Sex and the City’ television programme, see chapters 7 and 9 of Akass, Kim and McCabe, Janet, ed. Reading Sex and the City. (London : I.B. Tauris, 2004)Google Scholar.
10. Hamish Bowles, “Fashion: Fashioning the century”, Vogue, May 2007, 239.
11. Mazzeo, Tilar J.. The secret of Chanel No 5 : the intimate history of the world's most famous perfume, (New York : HarperCollins, 2010) 82–111 Google Scholar.
12. The titles mentioned in the article text regarding rare material are E. Rimmel. Le livre des parfums (1870) http://libris.kb.se/bib/12477431, and G. W. Septimus Piesse. The art of perfumery and the methods of obtaining the odors of plants : with instructions for the manufacture of perfumes for the handkerchief, scented powders, odorous vinegars, dentifrices, pomatums, cosmetics, perfumed soap, etc.; to which is added an appendix on preparing artificial fruit-essences, etc. (1862) http://libris.kb.se/bib/12477483.