75606 - CULTURE AND THE IMAGINARY OF FASHION

Conoscenze e abilità da conseguire

Obbiettivo del corso è analizzare l'implementazione e le performance visive della moda in vari media: il museo, l'accademia, e l'industria della moda come formula integrata per manifestazioni espositive. Verrà affrontata la legittimazione della moda come fenomeno culturale e il ruolo delle manifestazioni espositive come formati in grado di presentare nuove idee su mode nuove e mode storicizzate.

Contenuti

Clothing is among the most visible and meaningful ways in which we express our identities. At the same time, our clothes are material items produced and consumed through an ever-expanding global fashion industry. This course will explore the various social, cultural, economic, political, and visual meanings associated with the representation of fashion , combining anthropological and historical methods.

Testi/Bibliografia

Preliminary Readings Before the Class:

1. S.Segre Reinach (2016) "Ethnicity" in Cultural History of Fashion vol. 8  Bloomsbury. (pdf attached)

2. A.M. Leshkowich (2003) 'The Ao-dai goes global' in Re-Orienting Fashion, edited by S. Niessen, A.M. Leshkowich, C. Jones, Oxford, Berg. (the book can be consulted in the Rimini Library Unibo), pp.79-116.

3. 'Introduction: Europe and the People without Fashion' in L. Welters and A. Lillethun Fashion History. A Global View, Bloomsbury, London and New York, 2018, pp. 1-10.

4. D.N. Green and S. Kaiser "Fashion and appropriation" in Fashion, Style & Popular Culture, 4, 3, 2017 (pdf attached)

 

Metodi didattici

Lessons, Students presentations, workshops

Modalità di verifica e valutazione dell'apprendimento

The examination will ensure the achievement of the following objectives:

- critical awareness of the complexity of the representation of fashion

- survey and analysis of the main conceptual contents examined;

- ability to establish well-founded relations between the different aspects of the program.

FINAL EXAMS

A. Attending Students only: COSTUME MEETS FASHION PROJECT.

Students will elaborate a personal interpretation of Vietnam Dress Ao-Dai on the international stage.

a.1 AO-DAI Individual Portfolio  

a.2 Essay Test during the course on the preliminary readings indicated above.

The final grade is based on the average of the two tests, essay and portfolio

B. All other students written EXAM (Test)

Written Multiple Choice Test (31 questions) based on the following readings:

1. Bruzzi and Church-Gibson (eds) Fashion Culture Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. Introduction

2. Lise Skov and Marie Riegels Melchior: Research Approaches to the Study of Dress and Fashion

3. E. Wilson Adorned in Dreams: Introduction + chapter 4

4. D. Gilbert A new world order? Fashion and Its Capitals in the twenty-first century in Fashion Culture Revisited: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. Bruzzi and Church-Gibson. Routledge.

Strumenti a supporto della didattica

Thematic introductions; classroom presentations by students.

Orario di ricevimento

Consulta il sito web di Simona Maria Segre Reinach