- Docente: Paolo Ferrarini
- Credits: 6
- SSD: L-ART/03
- Language: English
- 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