Fashion Media Videos

2000 Years Of Clothing
From the fall of Rome through the invention of microfibers, take a visual journey through two thousand years of clothing! This valuable reference places milestones in textile technology and fashion innovation within a historical context on this large, full-color poster.

The American House
The American House lets popular architectural styles “tell their stories” and explain why they remain popular today. The Tudor style explains its roots in the Roaring Twenties and reveals its beginnings in Medieval designs. A series of Neo-Classic buildings trace their roots to ancient Greece and speculate about why they remain popular thousands of years later. Each style gives viewers visual clues to help identify its style.


Clothing Care
Teach the basics of cleaning clothes so that they wear out on you, instead of in the machine. Watch step-by-step instructions on sorting, washing and drying clothes. Take your students behind the scenes at a dry cleaner to discover it’s not really dry at all.

Clothing Fibers
Travel three continents on video to learn the basics of the most worn textile fibers: cotton from fields in the American southwest, linen from the Belgian flax industry, and silk from the Chinese silk industry, still shrouded in secrecy. Learn about synthetic fibers and understand how fiber influences fabrics.

Color For Interior Design
Where do you begin to design the rooms in which you live? How about asking “what colors do I want to live with?” But how do you put them together in a pleasing way? How can you tell which colors harmonize and which clash like warring relatives? Learn how to use colors like a pro to create beautiful color schemes for interiors.

Eye For Design
Eye For Design is a course in everyday aesthetics. Its lessons go beyond mere “decorating” or “picking a wardrobe” and into the basics of perception, beauty, and the ecology of environments. Viewers learn that developing an “eye for design” involves understanding a few basics of perception.

Fabric Lab
Fabric Lab is a re-usable workbook/swatch kit that teaches the basics of yarns and fibers, weaves and knits, dyes, and finishes. Each kit will last several years and includes a workbook and a set of 20 fabric swatches.

Fashion, Fads, And Freedom
Clothing choices play a role in almost every social problem from school violence and drugs to poverty and gangs. To many, the word "fashion" means Paris, models, and high prices. In reality, fashion is basic self-expression for the only animals on the planet who wear clothes.

Flattering Fashions
The six classic principles of design are shape, line, color, balance, proportion and texture. Understand how they apply to clothes and develop a personal style that highlights your best features. Ignore them and risk looking out of sync or unbalanced.


How The World Dresses
Join us for a video tour of how the world dresses and explore the amazing diversity of clothing worldwide. Learn about ourselves by exploring everyday clothing in Japan, Korea, India, Thailand, Morocco, Egypt, and others. Open your clothing and fashion courses to embrace the whole world with this important new title.

Interior Lighting
Lighting has something like the power of life and death over interior design. Well planned lighting can bring a room to life, and thoughtless lighting can kill even the most creative interiors. Light has the power to influence emotions, so lighting for a house is part technology and part psychology. Simply altering a light source can make people feel better about a room or task.

Inventing The Home
Travel back with us to the days when houses had no bathrooms and clothes closets were unknown. Learn how new technology combined with human dreams shaped the modern house and its inhabitants. Listen to a modern house tell its life story from fireplaces and outhouses to microwaves and satellite dishes. This video is useful for courses in housing, household management, or the history of everyday technology.

The Secret Life Of Rooms
Explore the true fundamentals of interior design. Color, proportion and furniture styles are the heart of interior design, but its soul lies in the relationship of people to things and spaces — we call this "the secret life of rooms." Learn the psychology of interiors, explore how people relate to the spaces in which they live, and study how we use things to extend our selves. We shape our rooms, and our rooms shape us.

Styles Of American Furniture
This CD-ROM is like having your own museum of American furniture. Fifty five beautiful slides showcase examples of American furniture and teach the vocabulary of style and design. The slides illustrate and explain styles that influence today's furnishings: Federal, Windsor, Chippendale, Queen Anne, Victorian, Neo-Classical, and Modern. Use this digital slide show to teach an introduction to American furnishings, cultural literacy, or design history.

Understanding Fabrics
This video is a fast-paced introduction to fabric science. Your students will learn about fabrics that repair broken hearts, stop bullets, fight fire, stop water, protect against outer space, and enable people to fly.

Using Color: Creating Color Harmony
Using Color teaches the basics of creating color harmony and color schemes for interiors, wardrobes, and wherever color matters. Color in Everyday Life is about the psychology and theory of color, while this program is a practical “how to” program that shows how to use color to shape environments.

Visual Design Basics
Visual Design Basics is a primer in visual literacy. It teaches the true fundamentals of visual design in seven sections: lines, shapes, angles and curves, rhythm, proportion and scale, balance, and groups and colors.


The Way We Dress
Explore the meaning and psychology of clothing. Viewers examine how clothing has changed from handcrafted garments made for a specific person to an industry of ready-to-wear clothes made for "market segments." The video explains how our idea of "dressing up" has changed drastically in the past twenty years and how fashion is a system of signals.

What Is A House
This video explores the basic meaning of shelter. It explores the forces shaping contemporary housing and shows that a house is far more than a box we live in. Viewer will see that a house is a collection of symbols that announce identity; it is nothing less than a dream turned into bricks and boards. A fascinating and provocative look at the "why" of a house.

Why Shirts Have Buttons
Many histories of clothing give a century-by-century account of what people wore. We have a better idea ­ start with what we wear right now and trace it back to its often fascinating and entertaining beginnings.