Discover the Evolution of Fashion and Retail through the Women's Wear Daily Archive

The Women's Wear Daily Archive provides online access to the definitive fashion and retail publication, Women’s Wear Daily (WWD). The entire archive of WWD, previously unavailable in digital form, opens up new opportunities for research. This authoritative record of how the fashion industry developed over the twentieth century provides valuable primary source material for students across the disciplines of fashion, business, and history.

The Women's Wear Daily Archive allows users to explore influences on the fashion and beauty industry. It contains the full run of past print issues and supplements and will be updated biannually with more recent issues. Users can explore every page of every issue since 1910, scanned cover to cover, including all advertisements and images, in high resolution and full color, presented in page-image format with searchable text. Take research deeper by cross-searching with The Vogue Archive, arts indexes, historical periodicals, and newspapers.

* Our policy is to include each issue from the first and to scan from cover to cover. Due to the rarity of some of the original print volumes, however, there are some gaps (issues or pages).

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Features

Digital Backfile

Digital Backfile

Coverage spanning 1910 (first issue) to present day

Metadata and Searchability

Metadata and Searchability

Full-text searchable content

Document-Type Indexing

Document-Type Indexing

Easy retrieval of specific content such as advertisements, photographs, and illustrations

Full-Color Digitization

Full-Color Digitization

Cover-to-cover full-color digitization to maximize the visual content

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