Learning Portfolio Post #5 (250 words) For your last LP Post of the semester, I would like you to reflect on the question “what is fashion?” which you were originally asked to answer in Week One. How has your understanding of fashion changed since the beginning of the semester? Give one or two specific examples […]
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[Intro to Fashion Studies] Posting #4
Learning Portfolio Post #4 (250 words total) Post images of one object from the FIT exhibition “The Body: Fashion and Physique”. What does your object communicate about the relationship between fashion and the body? How does the designer’s investigation of the body relate to your own investigation of the body (through embodied […]
[Intro to Fashion Studies] Inclass Writing #2
Topic: What I consider to be ‘glamorous’, and what object have made me feel that ‘glamour’ To be honest, from my country South Korea, the word ‘glamorous’ is only used to refer to women who have giant curves on their bodies. People only with body like Kim Kardashian were called glamorous and skinny celebrities […]
[Intro to Fashion Studies] Posting #3
Post 2 images from your last assignment, the Dress Practice Log, and post a final overall reflection to your LP. Your final overall reflection should answer these questions: What themes emerged in your dress practice log? What did you notice about daily dress practice that you hadn’t noticed before? How did the dress practice log impact your […]
[Intro to Fashion Studies] Posting #2
Post an advertisement for a fashion brand and explain how gender is portrayed through the clothing, models, etc. Does the advertisement reinforce traditional gender norms or does it subvert (go against) them? Include one quote from Fashion and Cultural Studies to support your answer. A photograph named “Korean Woman” by Wan Lee, displayed by Dior […]
[Intro to Fashion Studies] Inclass Writing #1
“Perhaps we can think of fashion as ‘custom for a time’ and culture as ‘custom over time’.” Culture, which means distinctive way of life of particular group of people and period, is in some way very similar with fashion, which is a prevailing custom of the time, in terms of its definition. Both words are […]
[Intro to Fashion Studies] Posting #1
Choose any two of Christopher Breward’s aphorisms from his forward to Fashion Studies, which you read in Week 1. Explain what each of the two aphorisms means (in your own words) and explain why you agree or disagree with them. “Fashion is gossip. Never underestimate the power of gossip. Semiologists are driven into ecstasies of […]
[Chloe Lee] Designer’s Statement and Process
Designer’s Statement There has always been controversy about what is a good design and what is not – some people say that an artistic and aesthetic object could be an example of good design while others say it can’t be if the object isn’t usable. Personally, I believe that good design should always […]
[History of Fashion] Topic Choices
Date: 1973 Country: South Korea Designer: Unknown Model: Jang (23) Indeed the trend of fashion has been changing rapidly each year, and the rate of change of fashion in South Korea has been unreal. Women were accustomed to wearing Korean traditional dresses called Hanbok until late 1920s, and clothings from western culture that were imported […]