10448 - History of Fashion and Costume

Course contents

During the lessons some topics will be focused crossing cronological and tematical approach.
The topics will be:
- Naissance/naissances of the fashion
- Italian communes and fashion: shops, awareness of the phenomenon., iconographic evidence
- Fashion, luxory and its rules
- tailors
- Fashion and differences  of place and status (the evidence of Vecellio)
- Fashion and art
- Orientalisms
- Hidden, sacrificed and free bodies
- Revivals
- History of the objects (cases: shoes, hats, bags)
- Fashion and Fascism
- Technologies and fashion districts
- Made in Italy

Readings/Bibliography

you have to:
A) the conaissance of the a manual is required (Manuale di storia del costume e della moda ( di V.Maugeri, Storia della moda e del costume, Bologna 2005 o di S.Piccolo Paci, Parliamo di moda, 3 voll., Bologna 2004)
plus the study of:
B) M.G.Muzzarelli, Breve storia della moda in Italia, Bologna 2011
 and three essays of E.Merlo, of S.Testa and of R. Orsi Landini, da: La moda, Annali 19, Storia d'Italia Einaudi, Torino 2003
C) you must choose among one of these textes:
 
- Saggi di R. Orsi Landini, di P.Ventura, P.Allerston , C.M.Belfanti (in tutto 4 saggi) da: La moda, Annali 19, Storia d'Italia Einaudi, Torino 2003
-  M.G.Muzzarelli, A capo coperto. Storie di donne e di veli, Bologna, iul Mulino 2016.
- M.G. Muzzarelli, Guardaroba medievale. Vesti e socità dal XIII al XVI secolo, Bologna 1999
- S. Grandi - A. Vaccari, Vestire il Ventennio, Bologna 2004 C.M. Belfanti, Civiltà della moda, Bologna 2008 
- E. Tosi Brandi, Artisti del quotidiano. Sarti e sartorie storiche in Emilia-Romagna, Bologna 2009 più saggio di D.Davanzo Poli, Il sarto, in La moda, Annali 19, Storia d'Italia, Torino 2003

-M.Belfanti, Civiltà della moda, Bologna 2008

-E.Morini, Storia della moda. XVIII-XXI secolo, Milano, Sklira 2010
-A Vaccari, la moda nei discorsi dei designer, Bologna, Clueb 2012

During the lessons will suggest possible readings in English

Teaching methods

A selection of documentary, literary and iconographic sources will be introduced and they will be ordered  chronologically. A laboratory will be devoted to the experience of tissues and the deep study of some specific topic.

Assessment methods

Oral examination: a good skill about specificities of Fashion in the Middle Age is required. A written mid-term exam is compulsory.

Teaching tools

During the lectures will be presented topics deeped by using written sources and iconographic sources.

Office hours

See the website of Maria Giuseppina Muzzarelli