Brighton is maybe more known for its pier and laid-back atmosphere, but it has actually got a vibrant fashion department at the local university. Irenebrination will be heading today to the School of Art, Design and Media at the University of Brighton to speak to the Fashion Design students about a very intriguing theme – Fashion Representation.
The talk is conceived as a brainstorming session to provide some inspirations for the students' Fashion Representation project and it will be a catalogue or an archaeology of fashion spaces, places and presentation techniques.
The lecture will move from the early days of catwalk shows and in particular from Charles Frederick Worth, Paul Poiret, Jeanne Paquin, Lucile, Jean Patou, Lucien Lelong and Elsa Schiaparelli and will reach out to more contemporary designers and presentations, touching upon disciplines such as art, architecture, cinema, illustration, interior design, science and technology.
It will look at Haute Couture and ready-to-wear presentations and analyse themes such as modernity and muses, repetitions and variations, fashion parades/fairs as political propaganda, showmanship and current presentation/representations strategies (the catwalk stunt included…).
It may be impossible to teach creativity, but it is surely possible to develop fantasy, invention, imagination and creativity by building links and connections and combining different themes and ideas together, as Bruno Munari used to say, so let's hope the students will benefit from the format of this talk. With many thanks to Mason Jung, Designer and Senior Lecturer in Fashion at the School of Art, Design and Media, University of Brighton, for inviting me.
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