Week 1. Fashion as Archive and Repertoire

May, 26: Introduction. Young, Agnes Brooks "Fashion has Its Laws" pp. 46-57  Wilson, Elizabeth "Why do People Wear Clothes?"

May 27: Taylor, Diana. The Archive and the Repertoire p. 16-33. 
Jenss, Heike. Fashioning Memory. “Introduction: Fashion and Cultural Memory.” pp. 1–12
Wilson, Elizabeth. “Fashion & Memory: Unravelling twentieth-century fashion's relationship with memory and perpetual pursuit of the new.” Web.
 

Set up an account in Scalar 
May 29, 5 pm: Introductory Blogpost Due

Week 2. From Imperial Nostalgia to Fashioning the Nation

June 1: Garelick Mademoiselle Coco Chanel and the Pulse of History,  Chapter 4 “Grand Duke Dmitri”, p.110-134
Presley, Ann Beth “Fifty Years of Change: Societal Attitudes and Women's Fashions, 1900-1950,” The Historian Vol. 60, No. 2 1998, pp. 307-324

June 2: Veillon, Dominique. Fashion under the Occupation. Introduction, Chapter 5.

June 3: Garelick, Chapter 10 “Chanel, fascism, and the Interwar Years” pp. 259-296

June 5, 5pm Blogpost 2 Due: Fashion and Nation

Week 3. Fashioning Gender and the Nostalgic New Look 

June 8: Butler, Judith. “Lacan, Riviere, and the Strategies of Masquerade,” pp.43-57 Wilson, Elizabeth. Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity (selections)

June 9: Beauvoir,  The Second Sex pp. 543-578
Gibson, Pamela “To Care for Her Beauty, to Dress Up, Is a Kind of Work:” Simone de Beauvoir, Fashion and Feminism”
Steele, Valerie “The Corset: Fashion and Eroticism.”Fashion Theory 3.4, 1999. pp. 449-473

June 10:  Rabine, Leslie “A Woman’s Two Bodies: Fashion Magazines, Consumerism, and Feminism,” pp. 59-75
Wright, Lee “Objectifying Gender: The Stiletto Heel”, pp.197-207

June 12, 5pm Blogpost 3 Due: Fashion and Gender

Week 4. The Second-Hand 60s and the Stakes of the Retro Aesthetics 

June 15: Jenss, Fashioning Memory, “Icons of Modernity: Sixties Fashion and Youth Culture”, p.37-24, “Vintage Style and Mediated Memories: Sixties DIY,” pp.113-138
Madmen, Season 1 Episode 1 “Smoke Gets in Your Eyes”, Season 2 Episode 5 “The New Girl”

June 16:  Silverman, Kaja. “Fragments of a Fashionable Discourse”, 52-139.
Madmen, Season 4, Episode 4, “The Rejected”, Season 5, Episode 1-2 “A Little Kiss”

June 17: Rosenheck, “Swing Skirts and Swinging Singles” p.161-180 
The Hipsters (Stiliagi, 2008), by Vareliy Todorovsky (fragments)

June 19, 5pm Blogpost 4 Due: Fashion Industry and Film

Week 5. Local Memory and Global Fashion

June 22: Comme de Garcons Post-soviétiques: Demna Gvasalia and Gosha Rubchinsky 
Roberts, Graham “Leader of the Gang: Gosha Rubchinskiy and the Death of Catwalk,” pp. 689-707.

June 23: Rovine, “Nubia in Paris: African Style in French Fashion” pp. 71-105
“Reinventing Local Forms: African Fashion Indigenous Style” pp. 107-155

June 24: Puwar, Nirmal “Multicultural Fashion: Stirrings of Another Sense of Aesthetics and Memory,”  pp. 63-87.
Boris, Eileen “Fashion Works,” Feminist Studies Vol. 43, No. 1 (2017), pp. 169-192

June 26, 5pm Blogpost 5 Due: Local/Global in Fashion
 

Week 6. Retro and Vintage in the Age of Instagram

June 29: Jenss, Fashioning Memory, “Vintage: Fashioning Time,” pp.15-36, 
McRobbie, Angela. “Second-Hand Dresses and the Role of the Rag Market.” 
Perthuis, de Karen, Findlay, Rosie “How Fashion Travels: The Fashionable Ideal in the Age of Instagram,” Fashion Theory, Vol.23. 2019, pp.219-242.

June 30:  Evans, Caroline “Yesterday’s Emblems and Tomorrow’s Commodities: The Return of the Repressed in Fashion Imagery Today,” pp. 93-113 Jenss, Fashioning Memory,  “Investing (in) Time: Collecting and Consuming the Past” pp. 89-112, “Untimely Fashion” pp.139-146

July 1: Conclusions and Final Projects presentations