standing the logics of the contemporary fashion field
-Identify the creative models of the different fashion houses and their conception of time
-Explore the trends diffusion models
-Interpret a fashion silhouette
-Explain the construction of consumer behaviour

Syllabus:

-Fashion and modernity: contemporary relevance, ‘Zeitgeist’, and the desirability of the new.
-Fashion and society: the concept of trends, social distinction and selection, culture and subcultures.
-Fashion as a language: decoding silhouettes, the genre of fashion literature and fashion press.
-Fashion and consumption: fashion and gender, the emergence of ‘lifestyle’, fetishism.