The best of 2025

What has been trending on the platform this year? Here’s the content that made the biggest statement in 2025.

This year on Bloomsbury Fashion Central, over 1,000 images from the seminal Central St Martins Graduate fashion shows on Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive were enhanced by new metadata. The shows marked truly formative moments in fashion history and now students and researchers can experience them too, by navigating a treasure trove of archive photographs with ease and discovering new insights along the way.

You can also explore new articles, books, flashcards, garment study videos, lesson plans, bibliographic guides, and an exclusive series of articles called Recreative Reflections – all added in 2025.

These resources are available now to help engage and inspire in the classroom. Get to know them in more detail by revisiting some of our featured posts from earlier this year.

Curious about which content has been capturing the most attention during this busy year? Here is a selection of our most-used content, all free to access until the end of January 2026.

• ‘Introduction: Body Dressing’, Body Dressing: Dress, Body, Culture 1st Edition, chapter from Berg Fashion Library
• ‘Alexander McQueen Fall/Winter 1995’, article from Bloomsbury Fashion Photography Archive
• ‘The Textile Industry’, J.J. Pizzuto’s Fabric Science: 12th Edition, chapter from Fairchild Books Library
• ‘Maison Martin Margiela, Spring/ Summer 1990’, article from Bloomsbury Fashion Video Archive
• ‘Bottega Veneta’, business case from Bloomsbury Fashion Business Cases
• The Sixties and Seventies: Style Tribes Emerge 1960-1980, Survey of Historic Costume, chapter from Bloomsbury Dress and Costume Library
• Anne-Christine Polet of Stitch, video from Bloomsbury Digital Fashion Masterclasses
• Historical Background: The Pros and Cons of Working with Portraiture: The Portrait of Dido Elizabeth Belle, article from Bloomsbury Historic Dress in Detail

And which teaching and learning resources have instructors and learners been turning to this year? Free-to-access and authored by experts, try adding these popular options to your teaching toolkit:

• Subject Guide: Anthropology of Fashion
• Lesson Plan: How to Analyze a Fashion Collection
• Bibliographic Guide: Anthropology of Dress and Fashion

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