History of Fashion

3 Credits

Creativity, a taste for beauty, tradition and imagination have always been part of Italian culture, being key factors in the shaping of its extraordinary artistic heritage, and in the emergence of a specifically Italian style. Students will explore the evolution of Italian Fashion from the fourteenth century through a multi-faceted approach that includes site visits and considers the impact of gender and political structures, Renaissance art, the Florentine silk economy, the emergence of writings on Fashion and style, design experiments connected to the birth of Opera, and Hollywood and Cinecitta industries on clothing, costume, style, and production in our time. Course is taught in English.