75637 - Latest Trends in Fashion

Academic Year 2016/2017

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Rimini
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Fashion Culture and Management (cod. 8841)

Learning outcomes

The student at the end of the course acquires tools for understanding the dynamics of contemporary fashion design in the context of the fashion system.

Course contents

- From trends to creative innovation: the T.R.E.N.D. method
- The concept of future and its archetypes
- The future evolution of the body
- The role of gender in contemporary fashion
- Emerging aesthetic trends
- Emerging fashion designers

Readings/Bibliography

Future Concept Lab, Morace, F. (a cura di), “Real Fashion Trends. Il manuale del cool hunter”, Libri Scheiwiller, 2007

Raymond, M., “The Trend Forecaster’s Handobook”, Laurence King Publishing, 2010

Khanna, P., Khanna, A., “Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization”, TED Books, 2012

Francesco Morace, “Paradigms of the Future. A Trend Exploration”, Future Concept Lab, 2012 http://goo.gl/xVTGJC

Quinn, B., “Fashion Futures”, Merrell, 2012

Rushkoff, D., “Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now”, Current 2013

Brown, S., “ReFashioned: Cutting-Edge Clothing from Upcycled Materials”, Laurence King, 2013

Augé, M., “The future”, Verso, 2014

Kelly, K., “The inevitable”, Viking, 2016

Assessment methods

Attending students

- Trend research (the briefing will be shared during the lessons)

- Slides presented during the course

- 1 book from the bibliography


Students who do not attend lessons

- 3 books from the bibliography


Office hours

See the website of Paolo Ferrarini