PGFS
5150
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201130
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Faculty:
Heike Jenss
In this class students will explore the relationship of fashion and time through the visual and material analysis of fashion in dialogue with theoretical work that investigates concepts such as newness, longevity, authenticity, history, memory, and time. The course places a particular emphasis on the phenomenon of retro and the presence of the past in the contemporary context. By researching and analyzing different uses of the past in fashion design and imagery, including revivals or retro-styles, the morphing of past forms through new materials, sampling, secondhand dress or the reinvention of fashion brands, students will delve into multiple meaning dimensions of the appropriation and recall of history in fashion that go beyond the common association with nostalgia to a more nuanced understanding of fashion and the materialization of time. Readings include the work of authors such as Barbara Burman-Baines, Fred Davis, Caroline Evans, Walter Benjamin, Jean Baudrilliard, Maurice Halbwachs, Vilem Flusser, Boris Groys.Pathway: Fashion StudiesOpen to: Graduate students, with preference given to FST majors
