FASHN 333

Fashion Textiles & History on the Global Stage

This course is offered as a study abroad course in World Class Fashion Centers such as: England, France, Italy, China, Japan, and Vietnam. Students will survey the history of fashion and textiles, period gar - ments, and modern couture collections. The focus is to examine the historical expression of fashion, textiles, and style contained in works of renowned museums and couture collections. In England, the course focuses on two museums, The Victoria & Albert and The Bath. London also offers the Hand & Lock Embroidery School that showcases student work on a global scale. In France, the focus will be in Paris to explore couture collections of fashion houses. In Italy, the focus will be the artistic fashion expressions of textiles in the European fashion capitals of Milan and Florence. China, Japan, and Vietnam of- fer spectacular textiles and the Kyoto Collection of garments. Also, the students will produce notebooks based on their impressions of specific areas of travel. These notebooks will be incorporated into portfolios for use in employment and/or university reviews. The specific itinerary will be determined at travel time. The cost per student to participate in this course will depend on cost of travel at time of bookings.

Units: 3.0

Hours: 36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB