ISMAT 22997

Contemporary Fashion

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  Understand the complexity of fashion. Have a historical view of fashion. Understand the relationship between the arts and fashion: communication, production and identity. Identify the concepts and phenomena surrounding fashion in the 20th and 21st centuries. Get to know fashion design professionals in Portugal. Ability to understand the dimension of language and communication that operate through fashion and its relationship with the other and with the imaginary world of contemporary culture.    
• ProgramaProgramme

  Knowledge about current fashion in the world and in Portugal: Implementation strategy for international and national brands, in the transversal market; Vision of local and international identity: French fashion; English fashion; Italian fashion; Japanese fashion; Portuguese fashion; Contact with the reality of national Fashion Designers; 1.    The social relationship between clothes and objects.  2.    Conceptualising fashion, society and the contemporary.  3.    Fashion: symbolic, communicational and cultural element.  4.    Resistance and reinvention - fashion and crises.  5.    Global x Local.  6.    Social movements and their relationship with dress: Feminism, cultures and subcultures, gender and identity in fashion.  7.    Inspiration and copying. Fashion as an agent.  8.    Physical, digital and virtual, fashion as an agent of time and an object of desire  
• ObjectivosObjectives

  Fashion cover various aspects of society: the consume, politics, social fenomena, economical strategies, local costumes, cultural life, demographic evolution, cientific discoveries, costumes and attitudes. Ability to research and work influences; Ability to use different methodologies of data treatment;  
• BibliografiaBibliography

  Baudelaire, Charles 2006, A invenção da modernidade , Relógio d'água; Duarte, C. L. 2004 , Moda , O Que É, Quimera, Lisboa; Duarte, Cristina L. 2006, Moda Portuguesa, CTT, Lisboa; Duarte, C. L. (2005). Moda portuguesa; Dorfles, Gillo 1974, Oscilações do Gosto, Livros Horizonte, Lisboa;  Dorfles, Gillo 1988, A moda da moda, ed.70, Lisboa; Kawamura, Y. (2023). Fashion-ology: Fashion studies in the postmodern digital era. Bloomsbury Publishing; Sklar, M. (2019). This is not fashion: Streetwear past, present and future;  Svendsen, L. (2010). Moda: uma filosofia. Editora Schwarcz-Companhia das Letras.  
• MetodologiaMethodology

  Expository content based on images, text studies and other documents relevant to the field of fashion design. Monitoring the development of the work with individualised assistance.   
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  4
• NaturezaNature

  Mandatory
• EstágioInternship

  Não