ISMAT 22997

Contemporary Fashion

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  Understand the complexity of fashion. Gain a historical perspective on fashion. Comprehend the relationship between the arts and Fashion: communication, production, and identity. Identify the concepts and phenomena that have surrounded fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries. Become familiar with fashion design professionals in Portugal. Develop the ability to understand the scope of language and communication expressed through fashion and its relationship with others and with the imaginary world of contemporary culture.
• ProgramaProgramme

  Knowledge of current Fashion in the World and in Portugal: Implementation strategies of international and national brands in the cross-market. Perspective on local and international identity: French Fashion; English Fashion; Italian Fashion; Japanese Fashion; Portuguese Fashion; Exposure to the reality of national Fashion Designers. Topics: Social relationship between clothing and objects. Conceptualization of fashion, society, and the contemporary. Fashion as a symbolic, communicational, and cultural element. Resistance and Reinvention: Fashion and crises. Global vs. Local. Social movements and their relationship with dress: Feminism, cultures and subcultures, gender, and identity in fashion. Inspiration and imitation. Fashion as an agent. Physical, digital, and virtual: Fashion as an agent of time and object of desire.
• ObjectivosObjectives

  Fashion encompasses various aspects of society in a transversal way: consumption, but also politics, social phenomena, economic strategies, local habits, cultural life, demographic evolution, scientific discoveries, customs, and attitudes. Ability to research and approach fashion in a way that considers all of its social dimensions.
• BibliografiaBibliography

    Baudelaire, Charles 2006, A invenção da modernidade , Relógio d'água; Duarte, Cristina L. 2004 , Moda , O Que É, Quimera, Lisboa; Duarte, Cristina L. 2006, Moda Portuguesa, CTT, Lisboa; Dorfles, Gillo 1974, Oscilações do Gosto, Livros Horizonte, Lisboa; Dorfles, Gillo 1988, A moda da moda, ed.70, Lisboa; Svendsen, L. (2010). Moda: uma filosofia . Editora Schwarcz-Companhia das Letras.
• MetodologiaMethodology

  Expository content based on images, text studies, and other relevant documents for teaching and learning in the field of fashion design. Guidance in the development of projects with individualized support.
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  4
• NaturezaNature

  Mandatory
• EstágioInternship

  Não