Understanding Fashion - From Business to Culture, Certificate | Part time online | FutureLearn | United Kingdom
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Discover the business of fashion and understand the cultural impact of the fashion industry with Institut Français de la Mod with this Understanding Fashion - From Business to Culture from the Institut Francais de la Mode by FutureLearn.

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Overview

Curious about how the fashion industry has transformed and shaped Western culture over the last 150 years?

This 4-week   Understanding Fashion - From Business to Culture from the Institut Francais de la Mode by FutureLearn  delves into the fashion world and investigates fashion as both a cultural phenomenon and a creative industry.

You’ll explore the interaction between fashion, society and business with top fashion designers and professors from Institut Français de la Mode.

Explore the emergence of fashion trends

Where does fashion actually come from? You’ll start the course by answering this question and learning about modern fashion and its contemporary relevance.

You’ll explore the rise of the fashion industry during the industrial revolution and evaluate how brands inject modernity into their designs. The course features case studies from top fashion designers such as Chanel and Gucci.

Programme Structure

What topics will you cover?
  • Fashion and modernity: contemporary relevance, ‘Zeitgeist’, and the desirability of the new.

  • Fashion and society: the concept of trends, social distinction and selection, culture and subcultures.

  • Fashion as a language: decoding silhouettes, the genre of fashion literature and fashion press.

  • Fashion and consumption: fashion and gender, the emergence of ‘lifestyle’, fetishism.

Key information

Duration

  • Part-time
    • 1 months
    • 3 hrs/week

Start dates & application deadlines

You can apply for and start this programme anytime.

Language

English

Delivered

Online
  • Self-paced
  • No Attendance
  • Proactive tutoring and support
  • Individual work/assignments (with online group discussions)

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

  • Whether you’re a marketing student intrigued by consumer culture or you’re an experienced fashion professional looking to enhance your knowledge, this course is designed for anyone looking to deepen and specialise their knowledge of the fashion industry.
  • This course will also be relevant to fashion entrepreneurs who need a holistic view of the industry’s key success factors.
  • This course is supported by DEFI.

Tuition Fee

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  • International

    134 USD/full
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    Based on the tuition of 134 USD for the full programme during 1 months.
  • National

    134 USD/full
    Tuition Fee
    Based on the tuition of 134 USD for the full programme during 1 months.

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