91119 - Fashion Curation

Academic Year 2020/2021

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

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

MONDAY 9AM-12PM - THU 4-7PM VIA TEAMS.

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

WORKSHOP FOR ATTENDING STUDENTS + SPECIAL LECTURES BY INTERNATIONAL CURATORS SUCH AS ERICA DE GREEF AND POOKY LEE WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THE UNDERSTANDING OF THE LATEST TRENDS IN INTERNATIONAL FASHION CURATION.

http://www.ericadegreef.co.za

https://www.instagram.com/pooky_lee/?hl=it

This course adheres to the Identikit project which, developed in collaboration with the Savignano sul Rubicone Photography Festival (SI Fest), is aimed at celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2021

Readings/Bibliography

ATTENDING STUDENTS: A DEDICATED BIBLIOGRAPHY WILL BE GIVEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE COURSE

NON ATTENDING STUDENTS:

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

Lessons, Digital Sources, videos, student presentations

Workshop: (for attending students only)

Assessment methods

Attending Students: Individual Presentations; Specific Workshop; Participation to the Class.

Non Attending Students:Final Test Multiple Choice based on the readings; 31 questions.

Teaching tools

Lessons, Digital Sources, videos, student presentations

Office hours

See the website of Simona Maria Segre Reinach