Class Contemporary Fashion

Understand the complexity of fashion. Have a historical view of fashion. Understand the relationship between the arts and Fashion: communication, production and identity. Students must develop relational reasoning between relevant historical moments; know how to produce analogies from events directly associated with fashion and other social contexts.

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;

Mandatory work carried out throughout the semester - one of 20%; another, the Final work, of 60%; Oral Presentation - if it is defined that there is an oral presentation of some or all of the mandatory work, it should be noted that students will have to present their work in a class context, to be defined by the teacher, in front of the rest of the class, subject to questions by part of the teacher or teachers. The grade for this evaluation moment may be included in the final grade of the work or have a separate evaluation.
Debate and class participation - 10%; Attendance - 10%. The submission of a essay or other, until 24h delay has a two point penalization, after that has zero.

Costa, António Firmino da 2001, Sociologia , «O que é», Quimera, Lisboa; Baudelaire, Charles 2006, A invenção da modernidade , Relógio d?água;
Duarte, Cristina L. 2004 , Moda , O Que É, Quimera, Lisboa; Duarte, Cristina L. 2006, Moda Portuguesa, CTT, Lisboa; Lipovetsky, Gille 2006, Le Bonheur Paradoxal - Essai sur la société d ¿hyperconsommation, Gallimard, Paris;