Theory of Fashion I
Teachers in charge
Assist. Prof. Petra Krpan, Ph.D.
Study, Module
Textile and Fashion Design - graduate, Module Costume Design
Textile and Fashion Design - graduate, Module Theory and Culture of Fashion
Course summary ∑ (L+s+p):
3 (1+2+0)
ECTS
6
Knowledge verification
writing exam
Precondition for testing
Lectures, literature, seminars, workshops, participation at museum and art-exibition events
Lecture type
lectures, seminars
Exercise type
audio practice, seminars
Subject content
Contemporary fashion theories (psychoanalysis, anthropology, cultural studies); Fashion as the system of signs; Historical sources of fashion; Art and fashion; Social differentiation and cultural integration; Ephemerity of fashion and symbolical representation; Fashion as ideological system; Subcultures and streetstyles; Democratisation of fashion; The language of fashion; Fashion and society of spectacle; Lifestyles and fashion transformations; Fashion and postmodernism; Anti-fashion.
Aim of course
The course is interdisciplinary approach to study of fashion system and examines appropriation the general and particular knowledge from theoretical perspective of fashion as specific culture of post-industrial society. Fashion theory includes very different humanistic and social sciences (cultural studies, anthropology, psychonalisis and sociology of fashion). Thje main goal is understanding the complex of intercultural and transcultural reality of the global age. The meaning of fashion phenomena in the total of manifestations and representations is ultimate purpose of the course.
Literature necessary for course
Mirna Cvitan-Černelić, Djurdja Bartlett, Ante Tonči Vladislavić (ed.), THE FASHION: HISTORY, SOCIOLOGY AND FASHION THEORY, Školska knjiga, Zagreb, 2002. Jean Baudrillard, SIMULATION AND REALITY, Jesenski and Turk, Zagreb, 2001. Gilles Lipovetzky, L'EMPIRE DE L'EPHEMERE, Gallimard, Paris, 1987. Dick Hebdige, SUBCULTURE: THE MEANING OF STYLE, Methuen, London, 1979. Roland Barthes, THE FASHION SYSTEM, Johnatan Cape, New York, 1985.
Supplement literature
Pierre Bourdieu, DISTINCTION: A SOCIAL CRITIQUE OF THE JUDGEMENT OF TASTE, Routledge, London, 1986. Ted Polhemus, STYLE SURFING, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996. Ingrid Loschek, MODE: VERFÜHRUNG UND NOTWENDIGKEIT, Bruckmann, München, 1991. Milan Galović, FASHION, Jesenski and Turk, 2001.