The Spectacle of Fashion Media by https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz This week we will look at the various methods used to promote fashion and dress. From early hand drawn illustrations, fashion photography and the fashion show, to Internet blogging, YouTube and SHOWstudio, we will consider how technological changes in visual production and consumption have influenced the way fashion is promoted from couture design to the high street. en-us 2017-10-01 12:25:51 UTC 2023-06-05 12:02:38 UTC hello@padlet.com Seminar Task: rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192752493 The first seminar will introduce your seminar tutor and the rest of your seminar group. Please be prepared to say who you are, why you chose this unit and what (if any) relationship the idea of fashion and/or identity has to your studio practice. 

-       What is the ‘spectacle’ as described by Debord?

-       How and why does fashion media use the ‘spectacle’?

  -       Do fashions or changes in technology influence fashion media?

-       How do you find out about fashionable styles today? 

What methods would you/do you use to promote your own work?

Where do you think the future of fashion media might go?

How do you think the spectacle of fashion impacts upon your own work
]]> 2017-10-01 12:28:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192752493 Street Style Task rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192752647 https://padlet.com/a_slater/azlkx3unb83h]]> 2017-10-01 12:31:56 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192752647 (Debord, 1977 [1967]; paras. 35-37) rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192753741 This is the principle of commodity fetishism, the domination of society by “intangible as well as tangible things,” which reaches its absolute fulfillment in the spectacle, where the tangible world is replaced by a selection of images which exist above it, and which simultaneously impose themselves as the tangible par excellence.]]> 2017-10-01 12:45:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192753741 From Lecture rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192753860 In the C18th fashion models didn’t exist: ‘French dressmakers promoted their work by sending dolls, fashionable dressed in the latest modes, around Europe.’ (Evans, 2013: 12)]]> 2017-10-01 12:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192753860 Considered as first fashion model Virginia Oldoini, Countess da Castiglione’ (from 1856) rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192754397 How has the role of the fashion model changed.]]> 2017-10-01 12:52:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192754397 Highlights from SHOWstudio's Rich Archive of Fashion Films and Interviews rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192755435 https://youtu.be/VhreqfDKwr4"The great thing about the great British Fashion industry, in contrast to that proffered by just about any other capital in the world, is that it's not really about the clothes, it's about telling a story"  Alexander Fury, Dior]]> 2017-10-01 13:06:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192755435 http://showstudio.com rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192756378 THE HOME OF FASHION FILM AND LIVE FASHION BROADCASTING]]> 2017-10-01 13:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192756378 Behind the Scenes of a fashion shoot rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192756772 https://youtu.be/Bl20HTClLt4]]> 2017-10-01 13:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192756772 British Pathe news archive rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192757986 2017-10-01 13:34:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192757986 Louis Vuitton Fashion Show 2012 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axq2F2zn0sI rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192758134 2017-10-01 13:35:47 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192758134 rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192758316 The spectacle … is the heart of the unrealism of the real society … [It] is materially “the expression of the separation and estrangement between man and man” … which has turned need against life.’ 

(Debord, 1977 [1967]; 
paras. 6; 215 )
]]> 2017-10-01 13:37:29 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192758316 Fashion media: past and present 2013 (electronic resource)Book Further reading Bartlett, Djurdja Cole, Shaun, Rocamora (editors) rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192759065 Since their first appearance in the seventeenth century—indeed Jean Donneau de Visé’s 1672 Le Mercure Galant is generally credited as being the ancestor of fashion magazines (see Vincent 2005)—fashion media platforms have proliferated. This is testament not only to the popularity of fashion as a topic of news but also to the crucial role of the media in the field of fashion, for fashion words and images are central to the production, circulation and dissemination of fashion (Barthes 1990 Jobling 1999 Rocamora 2009). 
By mapping key changes in fashion and commodity culture, the fashion media have also cap-tured and produced modernity in all its contradictions. Art and commerce, elite and ordinary cultures, spaces, times, professional and amateur practices meet and intertwine in the field of the fashion media. Today this field is in the midst of deep social and technological changes. Its present, as well as its past, offer a unique opportunity to explore the complex, multilayered nature of the processes that bind design, technology, society and identity together. Yet, and in spite of the now well-established presence of fashion as a topic of academic enquiry, the fashion media remain relatively under-explored. Fashion advertisements, magazines, fashion films, websites and photography are among the media sites discussed as a way of engaging with a range of topics central to the understanding of not only fashion but of society and culture, too. ]]> 2017-10-01 13:44:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192759065 Alix Browne 2017 AnOther Mag rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192762260 “The fashion show is the ultimate realisation of a designer’s vision,” writes Browne. “[It is] a coherent act of creativity that separates those who have something compelling to say – about women, about men, about the world – from those who make nice things for people to wear. It is a moment of truth.” Today, fashion shows are often dullened by constantly flickering smartphone screens, money-is-no-object grandness, rent-a-celeb appearances and thumping techno music, which all seem to prioritise Instagram fodder over the present audience."]]> 2017-10-01 14:15:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192762260 So how can a spectacle translate as a digital/on screen experience when you have to be there to experience it in real life? rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192762449 1990s fashion was all about being there.]]> 2017-10-01 14:17:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192762449 Viktor and Rolf Fashion Show 1999 rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192762931 https://youtu.be/boccaN98V90]]> 2017-10-01 14:21:28 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192762931 How does celebrity endorsement help to create a spectacle? rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192764018 Lady Gaga? Uses her own designs to create a spectacle and generate publicity.

Can you think of any other examples of this type of celebrity spectacle?]]> 2017-10-01 14:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192764018 Chanel is known for its spectacular fashion shows and the Métiers D'Art Collection 2011/2012 rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192765391 Guests were seated at a dramatic long and winding banquet table, surrounded by opulent chandeliers and candelabras; lush over-the-top florals, towers of food, and a simple yet sumptuous colour palette of cream and white]]> 2017-10-01 14:44:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192765391 http://bit.ly/2fAymYK rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192766089 2017-10-01 14:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/192766089 Elevating of clothes and fashion so as to enhance their significance beyond their purpose...and become a representation of themselves rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193751904 2017-10-04 08:47:38 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193751904 About the seminars and Fashioning Identities rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193752758 2017-10-04 08:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193752758 High Street stores and the spectacle rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193774875 anthropologie uk, Kings Road, Chelsea]]> 2017-10-04 10:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193774875 Are there any fashion websites you are impressed by and why? rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193776198 2017-10-04 10:16:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193776198 Asos Fashion Show Feature rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193776587 http://www.asos.com/asos/asos-t-shirt-mini-dress-with-lace-up-sides/prd/8548891?clr=yellow&cid=8799&pgesize=36&pge=0&totalstyles=5417&gridsize=3&gridrow=6&gridcolumn=1]]> 2017-10-04 10:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193776587 http://bit.ly/2fAymYK rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193789450 2017-10-04 11:10:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193789450 rachael.walker@mmu.ac.uk rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193790060 2017-10-04 11:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193790060 Introductions rachael_walker2 https://padlet.com/rachael_walker2/typxr7cfftxz/wish/193794042 Opportunity to discuss issues related to course, lectures and reading        
Ask questions
Engage and understand reading
 Debate
 Learning from others 
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