World Fashion Database, a library for tracing clothes

Why it surfaced

The site treats fashion research like a public reading room: its opening collection follows ten Diana-related looks while separating places, periods, cultures, image rights, sources, and correction history. Its promise to preserve not just which clothes look similar, but why the identification can be trusted, gives the archive unusual editorial discipline.

A bilingual fashion archive that connects historical photographs to clothing provenance, cultural context, construction details, and possible modern recreations.