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B031651 - Fashion History
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Academic Year 2022-23
Course year
First year - First Semester
Belonging Department
Architecture (DIDA)
Course Type
Single education field course
Scientific Area
ICAR/18 - HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE
Credits
6
Teaching Hours
48
Teaching Term
19/09/2022 ⇒ 16/12/2022
Attendance required
No
Type of Evaluation
Final Grade
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Teaching Language
Italian
Course Content
The course aims to provide students with basic knowledge on the origins and diffusion of the term "fashion" and on the transformations of the phenomenon in the following centuries, as well as on dressing habits from the earliest tailoring up to the 20th century.
Suggested readings (Search our library's catalogue)
Fundamental texts for exam training:
- Belfanti C. M., Giusberti F. (a cura di), Storia d’Italia. La moda, Annali 19, Torino 2003.
- D’Acchille T., Storia della moda. Dalle origini al department store, vol. I, Roma 2021.
- Riello G., Moda. Una storia dal Medioevo a oggi, Bari-Roma 2012.
One reading from a choice of the following texts:
- Belfanti C. M., La civiltà della Moda, Bologna 2017.
- Frisa M.L., Le forme della moda. Cultura, industria, mercato: dal sarto al direttore creativo, Bologna 2015.
- Gnoli S., Moda. Dalla nascita della haute couture a oggi, Roma 2012.
- Merlo E., Moda italiana. Storia di un'industria dall'Ottocento ad oggi, Venezia 2003.
- Motta G., La moda si fa storia. Borghesi, rivoluzionari, ruoli e identità nazionali, Roma 2017.
- Morini E., Storia della Moda XVIII-XXI secolo, Milano 2010.
- Muzzarelli M.G., Breve storia della moda in Italia, Bologna 2011.
At the end of the course, texts and handouts on the topics covered will be provided on the University's moodle platform.
- Belfanti C. M., Giusberti F. (a cura di), Storia d’Italia. La moda, Annali 19, Torino 2003.
- D’Acchille T., Storia della moda. Dalle origini al department store, vol. I, Roma 2021.
- Riello G., Moda. Una storia dal Medioevo a oggi, Bari-Roma 2012.
One reading from a choice of the following texts:
- Belfanti C. M., La civiltà della Moda, Bologna 2017.
- Frisa M.L., Le forme della moda. Cultura, industria, mercato: dal sarto al direttore creativo, Bologna 2015.
- Gnoli S., Moda. Dalla nascita della haute couture a oggi, Roma 2012.
- Merlo E., Moda italiana. Storia di un'industria dall'Ottocento ad oggi, Venezia 2003.
- Motta G., La moda si fa storia. Borghesi, rivoluzionari, ruoli e identità nazionali, Roma 2017.
- Morini E., Storia della Moda XVIII-XXI secolo, Milano 2010.
- Muzzarelli M.G., Breve storia della moda in Italia, Bologna 2011.
At the end of the course, texts and handouts on the topics covered will be provided on the University's moodle platform.
Learning Objectives
The aim of the course is to provide students with the critical tools to contextualize fashion phenomena and identify their peculiar characteristics. Students will have to be able to reconstruct the main phases of fashion history, grasping the processes of change and rebirth, relating them to the reference context.
Prerequisites
Basic historical and geographical knowledge of the periods, areas and main topics covered by the course.
Teaching Methods
The course is divided into frontal lessons and workshops. Educational visits to some contemporary fashion galleries or museums are planned.
Further information
The course is based on frontal lectures with the aid of PowerPoint and exercises, therefore attendance of lectures, although not compulsory, is strongly recommended. Non-attending students must arrange the course programme directly with the lecturer. During the course, teaching aids will be published on the University's Moodle platform.
Type of Assessment
Oral examination. During the oral exam, the student should demonstrate adequate knowledge of the entire program, chronologies, figures and works discussed in the course.
Course program
The first part of the course will be devoted to the emergence of a "clothing economy" in Europe in the modern and contemporary age, and to the reconstruction of the transition from small tailoring to "haute couture". The second part will focus on the reconstruction of the economic and social characteristics that allowed, during the 19th and 20th centuries, the evolution of the Italian textile and clothing sector into a "fashion system". Finally, the problems linked to the evolution of clothing consumption and distribution will be addressed, in relation to the main historical, artistic, anthropological and social phenomena associated with fashion from the second half of the 19th century to the present day.