Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture
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Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture at FutureLearn Overview
Duration | 4 weeks |
Total fee | ₹2,763 |
Mode of learning | Online |
Official Website | Go to Website  |
Credential | Certificate |
Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture at FutureLearn Highlights
- Duration 4 weeks
- Weekly study 3 hours
- 100% online Learn at your own pace
Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture at FutureLearn Course details
- Curious about how the fashion industry has transformed and shaped Western culture over the last 150 years?
- This 4-week course delves into the fashion world and investigates fashion as both a cultural phenomenon and a creative industry.
- You'll explore the interaction between fashion, society and business with top fashion designers and professors from Institut Français de la Mode.
- Where does fashion actually come from? You'll start the course by answering this question and learning about modern fashion and its contemporary relevance.
- You'll explore the rise of the fashion industry during the industrial revolution and evaluate how brands inject modernity into their designs. The course features case studies from top fashion designers such as Chanel and Gucci.
- You'll be thinking about the relationship between fashion and politics, and asking whether fashion designers and brands have the power to be social actors.
- You'll also explore fashion code and the language of fashion, considering whether fashion brands are creative languages.
- In your final week, you'll investigate fashion consumption and develop your understanding of how it works as a social marker and identity construct.
- You'll evaluate what it takes to create and develop a fashion collection, and you'll look at the intersections between trends, seasonality and innovation.
Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture at FutureLearn Curriculum
Fashion and the rise of modern culture
Getting started
Fashion and modernity: the new as principle
Three conceptions of modernity
Case study: brands and ways to be modern
Test Yourself
Fashion and society
Fashion as a social distinction mechanism?
The functioning logics of the fashion field
The subcultural clothing: a bottom-up model?
Case study: fashion brands as social actors
Test yourself
Fashion as a language
The fashion code
Can fashion creation speak?
How to read a silhouette?
Test Yourself
Fashion, production and consumption
Fashion as an industry
Fashion as consumption
Case study: explaining attempts of the purchase of the little black dress
Alternative consumption, counter-cultures and counter-hegemonic bricolage
General conclusion
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