STUDY PROGRAMME
Fashion and Textile Design

AFAM CODE
ABST47

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Style, history of art and costume

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Style, history of art and costume

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical

This course leads to the understanding of different contemporary aesthetic codes, thanks to elements of anthropology and semiotics. This course analyses the intersection of art, identity, politics, economy, and history from antiquity until today, with specific attention to the evolution of garments, accessories, shoes, and other body ornaments through the lens of historic, artistic, and social changes. Through the discovery of individual figures or themes in the fields of culture, art and fashion, the students can broaden their vision to include useful research references, and better define their inspiration.

This teaching is made of a single module of 6 CFA credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Identify the costumes, artistic elements, and aesthetic models of different historic periods, and relate them to the contemporary era.

• Analyse and decode the fashion phenomenon as an articulated visual language.

• Improve their iconographic analysis skills with an interdisciplinary approach, comparison among different sources, analytical tools and historical-critic interpretations.

Each class is dedicated to an iconic character, with the analysis of their historic context, style, aesthetic influence, visual communication and fashion throughout history.

This is a theoretical course.

In the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the projects that will be developed:

• Classroom lectures

• Discussions

• Presentations

• Use of multimedia material

• Individual study and research

• Field trips

• Assessment criteria may include:

• Oral exam

• Submission of research works, essays or projects

• Further details on the specific tests will be given by the professor

The professor will provide didactic material and bibliographic references during the course in the form of notes, as well as recommended readings and movies. A lot of this material, together with other in-depth study material, can be consulted online in MyNaba, in the Library section.