Gillion Carrara

Often fashion refers to history, as it will in this course. We will explore the culture of Europe within the Renaissance era and the fashions created in that time, including the various occasions when men in their uniforms and women in their gowns stepped out in velvets, satins, leather, beading, metalwork and embroideries.

Turner Wilcox, Andre Castel, David Herlihy, Colin McEvedy, William McNeill, Rublack & Hayward, Anthony McIntyre
READINGS:
Excerpts from: Trucco e Bellezza nell' Antichita Rossana ed Cesaris; Fashion as a Cultural Intertext
Michaela Malickova; Pandora in the Box
Lydia Marie Taylor; For A Contemporary Vision of the Other History and Phenomenology of Fashion
Alessia M. M. Giurdanella; Fashion in the Middle Ages
Margaret Scott; Medieval Households
David Herlihy; First Book of Fashion edited by U. Rublack and M. Hayward; Plagues and People
William H. McNeill; Memoirs of Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar; Arms and Armour
Visual Books; Flowering of the Italian Renaissance
Andre Chastel; Medieval Households
David Herlihy; Penguin Atlas of Ancient History
Colin McEvedy; Alla Mensa degli Antichi - the ceramics of the table - collezione Costantini

Students should expect to create around 3 presentations and 3 written essays, a combination of written and visual.

This course is a chronological inquiry into fashion and dress and their relationship to a legacy of visual arts and literature. Content begins with the life and work of nineteenth-century dressmaker Charles Frederick Worth in Paris, and continues through to the modern radical designers of 1960s Paris.

Students should expect to learn about art, decorative arts, literature, and the lives, times and oeuvre of designers. Visits to various libraries are included in the syllabus.

Class content begins with the start of the youth quake of the 1960s and continues until the current day of designers? oeuvres, expanding to such arenas as video art, performance and creation of merchandise.
On occasion, a select number of students will participate with an end of year presentation together with students of the Department of Fashion Design.

This course is a chronological inquiry into fashion and dress and the relationship to a heritage of the visual arts, politics, literature, gender, and equality. Students will gain recognition of primary sources for analysis relating to art and dress in the Ryerson and Flaxman libraries. The SAIC Fashion Resource Center is a fully comprehensive venue as resource for any project. While individually and as a class, conversations are immediate, since surrounded by publications, garments and related materials in the F R C Study room and Wardrobe.

Six assignments progress from the knowledge of history to lives and practices of global designers. Of significance is an exercise of garment examination in the F R C Wardrobe resulting in museum like documentation permitting students to learn vocabulary and accurate assessment. Emphasis is placed on students mastering the skills of writing, presenting visual arts and oral presentation.