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History of Fashion

Code 12748
Year 1
Semester S2
ECTS Credits 6
Workload T(30H)/TP(30H)
Scientific area Design de Moda
Entry requirements interest.
Mode of delivery Face-to-face.
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes This UC aims to provide an extended perspective of the History of Fashion, going through its most important periods and thus allowing the student to understand when and why this story truly begins, differentiating it from a more generic course of dress.At the end of the UC the student should be able to identify and locate (in space and time) the periods that marked the history of clothing and fashion; characterize each period according to its context and realize the importance of this contextualization; understand when and why the history of fashion truly begins, differentiating it from a more generic story of the way of dressing; understand the arbitrariness inherent in the practices, forms and concepts worked by fashion; work, individually and in groups, demonstrating understanding of the established parameters; be concerned with the quality of the work submitted (orally and in writing) and the achievement of the proposed objectives.
Syllabus —Differentiation between a History of Clothing and a History of Fashion
Characterization of Fashion as a phenomenon
Identification of its timeline within Western History
Open Society / Close Society
Diffusion and contagion mechanisms
—14/15 Cents.
Specificities and their importance to the History of Fashion
Social, cultural and aesthetically differentiation between pre and post-Middle Ages
—16-18 Cents.
Fashion as a mechanism to build public image and project power
Fashion in the confluence of aesthetics, ethics and politics
—18/19 Cents.
The importance of French and Industrial Revolutions
Fashion democratization: causes, meaning and impact
Haute Couture: Fashion and elitism
Design and industry
—20/21 Cents.
Image and media society
Women condition and fashion as reflection of its evolution and regression
Modernity/post-modernity
From conviction to ideological void
Fashion design and social responsibility
Main Bibliography BALDINI, M. (2005). A Invenção da Moda. As teorias, os estilistas, a história. Lisboa: Edições 70.
COSGRAVE, B. (2013). História da indumentária e da moda. Da antiguidade aos dias actuais. Lisboa: Editorial Gustavo Gili.
DESLANDRES, Y. (1998). El Traje, imagem del hombre. Barcelona: Tusquets.
HAUSER (1989). A história social da arte. Lisboa: Ed. Veja/Estampa.
KOHER, C. (1993). História do vestuário. S. Paulo: Ed. Martins Fontes.
LAVER, J. (1982). Breve historia del traje. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra.
LIPOVETSKY, G. (1987). O império do efémero. Lisboa: Edições 70.
SQUICCIARINO, N. (1998). El vestido habla. Madrid: Ediciones Cátedra.
YARWOOD, D. (1988). The encyclopaedia of world costume. London, Batsford.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2023-07-10

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