Fashion

Safeguarding the Legacy of Style

Ideal for:

Accurate Management of History
Transforming Access to Fashion Archives
Improving Accessibility
Increasing Collaboration
Ensuring Longevity Of Your Collections

The accurate management of design archives, trend and collection histories is pivotal for preserving the rich heritage of the fashion industry. Paper-based processes often impede progress, resulting in inefficiencies, limited accessibility, and increased environmental footprint.

At Microform, we offer a comprehensive solution designed to empower fashion stakeholders. Our document scanning and digitisation services are meticulously tailored to elevate your archival practices, ensuring accessibility, efficiency, and the preservation of fashion history.

Digitise for Enhanced Fashion Heritage

In the fashion industry, digitising documents can significantly improve accessibility and preservation.

With the rise of digital technology, the way fashion institutions manage, preserve, and share their collections is undergoing a transformation. Digital archives, virtual fashion exhibitions, and online collections enable people from around the world to experience and engage with diverse fashion expressions and historical designs without geographical constraints.

Microform’s Heritage Department is leading this transformation, offering specialised digitisation services that help fashion institutions protect their valuable designs, enhance public engagement, and streamline their operations.

By digitising collections, fashion institutions can ensure the longevity of their pieces while making fashion more accessible to a global audience. This not only ensures the preservation of fragile or perishable items but also provides access to fashion heritage, fostering greater appreciation and understanding across different communities.

Professional Digitisation Services You Can Trust

Microform supports fashion organisations by digitising their records, ensuring long-term preservation and easy access to critical data.

Microform’s Heritage Department combines years of expertise with comprehensive, end-to-end digitisation services tailored to each institution's needs. Our team ensures high-quality results across a wide range of projects, from planning and digitisation to metadata creation and secure storage.

Prioritising the security and integrity of digital files, we offer robust data backup solutions. Digitising with us not only preserves valuable historical assets but also enhances accessibility, fostering greater engagement and education for a wider audience.

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/ Benefits of Digitising

Protect Design Heritage

Digitising fashion archives preserves valuable design documents and historical pieces, safeguarding them from physical deterioration.

Expand Global Access

Online access to digitised fashion collections allows a global audience to appreciate and engage with fashion heritage.

Enhance Research and Innovation

Digitised archives provide valuable resources for research and innovation in fashion design, supporting new creations and trends.

/ Why choose Us?

It’s a family affair

We’re proud to fly the flag for family-run businesses, and although our team has grown significantly over the last 60 years, we still bring a personal touch to everything we do.

Complete protection

To ensure your materials are safe in our care, we implement strict security measures and undergo regular disaster recovery assessments.

Specialist heritage facilities

The storage, preparation and digitisation of your heritage materials is carried out in our purpose-built single-level, temperature-controlled studio area measuring over 10,000 feet.

Respected and respectful

Our skilled, knowledgeable and experienced handlers and technicians are known for their meticulous handling of heritage materials – treating them with the respect they deserve at all times.

Gentle preservation

We use cutting-edge technology and advanced techniques to provide one of the UK’s most specialist digitisation services for your rare, precious and fragile heritage materials.

Services by us, for you

Our flexible services are fully tailored to ensure organisations meet their key objectives regardless of the type or quantity of materials.

/ Reviews from our Customers

Microform are one of the best companies that I have had the pleasure of working with in a long time. They work as part of the extended team, so communication isn’t an effort; it is a natural part of the process of getting the job done and delivering results.

Alison John Registration Services Manager, Warwickshire County Council

I love REG...the slick, quick and accurate re-production of any register entry is great, none of the staff at this office would go back to life without it!

Anne Atherton Superintendent Registrar, St Helens Registration Service

We have found the REG system a joy to manage and work with. Not only does it give us easy, speedy access to the certificates, we can now also offer a more professional, timely service to the public. All the staff have been impressed by how easy it is to use.
Microform Imaging have been a great company to work with, delivering excellent service and creating a unique, bespoke partnership.

Dawn Titherington Superintendent Registrar, Blackpool Council

Due to our repository being off site it was vital that we looked at alternative ways to work. Working with Microform and the REG system they had designed has transformed the way we work. No longer do staff have to leave the office to access registers on a daily/hourly basis all records are accessible instantly. Staff have welcomed the system and have full confidence in how to search, edit and print certificates. It has enabled us to offer a 2 hour turnaround certificate service for a premium fee increasing our income. Working with Microform has been a pleasure and one of most successful partnerships.

Gillian Greeson Superintendent Registrar, Wigan Council

REG has transformed the way in which we produce certificates. The process is simplified and streamlined and together with our ongoing indexing project has enabled us to achieve the efficiency targets required by the local authority.

Pat Evans Superintendent Registrar, The Register Office, Liverpool

From the first meeting we had to discuss our requirements with Mo, all the way through to now, communication in all forms have been exceptional. I very much doubt you could improve the quality of customer care and satisfaction. The relationship with Rachel throughout the project gave exceeded all my expectations, she has made the project a pleasure and stress-free experience. The level of professionalism and ''can do'' attitude she has shown from day one has been amazing and made what could have been a time of worry and concern for me, in to a feel-good working experience. Microform go the extra mile to make life easier!

Robert Harrison IT Director and Partner, HGF

I was thrilled to bits with the hard drive containing the scans of all my scrapbooks and would like to thank you very much for doing such a splendid job and for treating them with such great care.

Sir Stirling Moss