Log in and search LibrarySearch using keywords that describe your topic, then refine your results to books and book chapters.

• Combine your keywords with AND to find all search terms.

• Use OR to find any words or synonyms.

• Find “exact phrases” with quotation marks.

• Add an asterisk to part of a word to find different endings and plurals.

An example search: 

"fast fashion" AND (fabric OR textiles) AND sustainab* 

Try these keywords and subject headings to search for relevant books and book chapters:

Fashion design

You can also search for resources by a particular designer's name i.e. Rei Kawakubo or a type of fashion i.e. deconstruction, futuristic, romanticism.

Fashion business

Sustainability and ethics

Textiles and textile colouring

Browse the Library shelves using these call numbers (shelf location numbers).

Fashion design

• 391: Clothing 
• 391.009: Costume and Fashion History 
• 391.009: Australian Fashion History  
• 391.1: Costumes : Men - 
• 391.1: Mens clothing and dress  
• 391.2: Costumes: Women 
• 391.3: Costumes: Children  
• 391.4: Accessories  
• 391.413: Footwear Fashion 
• 391.44: Handbags  
• 646.2: Sewing 
• 646.32 : Mens clothing and construction  
• 646.4: Tailoring 
• 685: Leather, Fur and related products  
• 685.31: Boots : design and construction 
• 685.3102: Footwear Design and Construction  
• 745: Decorative Arts 
• 746-746.9: Textiles  
• 746.92: Fashion Design & Designers  
• 746.92: Fashion Show  
• 746.92024: Image Consultant  
• 929.6: Tartans  

Fashion business

• 658.834: Consumer behaviour   
• 658.87: Retail marketing 
• 659.15: Visual Merchandising 
• 687: Clothing production    
• 687: International Standards for clothing sizes  
• 687.0688: Fashion merchandising    
• 746.92068: Clothing trade, fashion merchandising

Sustainability and ethics

• 338.47687 Ethical fashion 
• 646.4 Remaking clothing
• 746.92 Sustainable fashion/ Environmental aspects of fashion

This video explains how to understand a call number to locate a book in the Library.

How to find a book in the Library (1:20 mins). RMIT University Library, YouTube.

See the Library’s e-Book guide for tips on using e-books.