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Documenting fashion practice at the Royal College of Art: the RCA archive and image resources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 June 2017
Abstract
What can an institutional archive tell us about the history of fashion education? The Royal College of Art's archive, in documenting the legacy of study and practice at the college, a key focal point of fashion education since 1948, illuminates in diverse ways the establishment and development of fashion design as an academic discipline. The print and digital collections in the RCA archive thus provide a rich resource that informs both contemporary practice and historical research, highlighting in addition issues raised by the increasingly digital access to this documentation for the archivist and the research community.
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- Research Article
- Information
- Art Libraries Journal , Volume 42 , Special Issue 3: Fashion Collections , July 2017 , pp. 130 - 139
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- Copyright © ARLIS/UK&Ireland 2017
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