91119 - Fashion Curation

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Fashion Studies (cod. 9067)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Fashion Studies (cod. 6059)

Learning outcomes

It will be discussed the legitimization of fashion as a cultural phenomenon and the role of exhibitions as a unique format in which to present new ideas on both old and new fashions. The staging and visual performance of fashion will be analyzed within different media: the museum, the academy, and the fashion industry as an integrated formula for exhibition display.

Course contents

History of Fashion Curation; Analysis of major fashion exhibitions; New models of representing fashion (store, digital, museum, catwalk).

SPECIAL LECTURES BY INTERNATIONAL CURATORS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE LATEST TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL FASHION CURATION.

Readings/Bibliography

Steele, V. "Museum Quality", Fashion Theory 12, 1, 2008, pp. 7-30.

Breward, C. "Between Museum and the Academy", Fashion Theory 12, 1, 2008, pp. 83-94.

Geczy, A. and Karaminas, V. "Fashion and Art. Critical Crossovers in Geczy and Karaminas (eds) Fashion and Art, Berg, London and New York 2012.

Steele, V. "Fashion" in Geczy and Karaminas (eds) Fashion and Art, Berg, London and New York 2012.

Riegels Melchior, M. "Introduction: Understanding Fashion and Dress Museology" in Fashion and Museums edited by Riegels Melchior and Svensson, Bloomsbury, London and New York 2014.

A.M. Vanska and H. Clark, Fashion Curating: Critical Practice in the Museum and Beyond (Introduction only) Bloomsbury 2014.

Luca Marchetti and Simona Segre Reinach, Exhibit!Fashion on Display: Exhibitions and Brand Spaces, © 2020, Pearson Italia, Milan-Turin.

Teaching methods

Lectures, Videos, Websites of major fashion exhibitions

Assessment methods

Written Test (Multiple Choice, 31 questions)

Office hours

See the website of Simona Maria Segre Reinach