BUF 3310 – Contemporary Designers and Luxury Markets

Syllabus Overview

Examines the aesthetics of major fashion designers from the 19th to the 21st centuries through lecture and study of museum clothing collections. Students will gain knowledge of historic fashion influences with application to contemporary and future fashion apparel.

BUF 3310 Syllabus

Project overview

Pick one fashion designer in the book, “Who’s Who in Fashion ,”and utilizing the format of your choice, describe what is it about that designer’s “aesthetics” that personally appeals to you? What would you wear from that designer’s collection, how often, and with what purpose in mind? What “look” or “feeling” would that designer’s collection create in you as a person that appeals to you? Why? How do you think you would feel wearing that designer’s collections. Speak in terms of emotional connection, and the extension of your aesthetic. If you were inspired to create your own modern day line of clothing based on that designer’s work, what would you add to it or take away? Why. Describe how this designer’s collection beautifies you. Speak in terms of outer beauty and inner beauty.

Designer project