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  MASTER ART & FASHION - "Become a fashion Curator!"
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Fashion entered the museum world. More and more Museums opened their doors to the fashion world. Fashion garments are archived in the same way as art pieces. Fashion exhibitions are not only exposing garments in an historical parcours but in a special created environment in a contemporary context in relation with art or/and socio-cultural studies. ‘Fashion curating’ is a new profession. The course will analyse the 3 different steps of a fashion curator; the first step is the study of the subject and the content, the second step is the space design and the third step is the educational aspect of the exhibition and the translation or educational aspect to the public. We will comment on Fashion Museums such as Victoria & Albert museum in London, The Costume Institute of Metropolitan Museum New York, MoMu of Antwerp, FIT of New York, Museé des Art Décoratifs in Paris and others.

The didactic lessons are held by qualified teachers, who are also professionals with long experience in the world of fashion. Students will be required to make a case study at the end of the 12 weeks.

 
 
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Main subjects are Fashion-, Architecture-, Art, Cultural related. They study the cultural and sociological effects of fashion and art in our society.
The course has some shorter lectures, held by flash professors, individuals or professionals who are experts in their fields.

History of Contemporary Fashion: to analyse resent evolutions in fashion and society.

History of Contemporary Art: ‘Arte Povera’, ‘conceptual art’ are phenomenon of the 20th century. Many more art movements will be analysed in this course.

The relation between art, cultural behaviour and fashion: Fashion designers are inspired by art and artists, but artist look at fashion to express themselves. The body is the common inspiration and in this course we will find cross over in both creative expressions. Artist such as Orlan, Messager, Cindy Sherman and many others will be studied. Contemporary dance movements are in close contact with the fashion world. Fashion designers work for theatre, film, furniture design. All these borderlines between art and fashion will be studied in the course. Other cultural apects such as ‘Japonism in fashion’ are explained in the course.

Editing: catalogues, brochures, websites are important to translate content to a braod audience.

Space design: Related to exhibition design will study space design. The use of a space and the impact on the audience is important for understanding fashion and art. The emotional impacts spaces have on the audience are an interesting phenomenon to study.

Sociology of fashion: Sociology of fashion is a key element to understand fashion movements and changes in fashion.  You will study the symbolic and cultural meanings of fashion in society.

Philosophy: many famous philosophers wrote about fashion. Simmel (1858-1918), T.S. Eliot, Walter Benjamin will be analysed and studied.

Case study of a fashion designer : a final case study of a fashion designer whose collections are inspired by art, politics or art movements will be delivered in a thesis; Designers such as Elsa Shiaparelli, YSL, Hussein Chalayan, A.F. Vandevorst, Martin Margiela, and many others can be analysed in the course.

Field Trips and testimonials: students will visit several museums and archives. Visits will be made to the major Italian Art & Fashion Fairs and testimonials will be invited to speak about their experiences.

 A course conceived for fashion designers, architects, designers who finished their bachelor (3 years) of foundation (2 years) degree and want to specialize in the cultural aspect of fashion.
The course is offered to all students holding a graduate degree (2 years or 3 years). Preference will be given to graduates in art, fashion, design, architecture, philosophy, sociology or advanced Fashion Design students. Fluent knowledge of English is required
 
 
 
Employment Opportunities  
Work as a researcher in museums and cultural institutions in relation to contemporary fashion history.

By definition this course aims to support the individual student to use his or her skills to start a career in the cultural or fashion world as a curator or a trend researcher.


A Polimoda master at this level is likely to attract students who have some working experience - sometimes in the fashion, museum or art sector (although this is not an essential entry requirement).

Certainly the Polimoda brand opens up to students participating on this course a worldwide network of ex-students contacts in the fashion industry and cultural world.

 
 
Admissions  

Admissions are limited to 10 students.
The admission exam consists of:
Written exam auto biographical and motivational
Portfolio
Interview (by phone for International students) with Head of Department
 
Course duration  

6 months
Start : April 2009
Internships for EU students only
 
Cost  
 
You can find information regarding the cost of the course here!
 
 



 
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