| 回 | 担当教員・担当教員フリーテキスト | 内容 |
| 第1回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Introduction: Course overview | This class will provide an overview of the key issues and concepts we will be covering, such as what ‘theory’ means, the fields of fashion, the time of fashion, fashion in the global era, and fashion and the clothed body. |
| 第2回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Defining fashion | This class will explore the different meanings and concepts of fashion. We will look at the relationships between fashion and clothing; fashion, gender and ethnicity; fashion and tradition; and fashion and modernity. |
| 第3回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
The time of fashion | Fashion is always changing, passing from the in time to the out of time. In this class, we will examine the relationship between the past and present of fashion, and how it relates to the social present. |
| 第4回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Fashion and the global market | This class will examine the changes that have occurred in clothing and fashion since the time of the Industrial Revolution. We will focus on the shift from craft to industrial production, fashion as a commodity, the role of clothing as a social marker, and the rise of ‘western’ fashion as a modern aesthetic. |
| 第5回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Designer labels | Following the emergence of the first fashion houses in the late nineteenth century, high fashion became increasingly associated with individual designers and their labels. In this class, we will examine the idea of originality and how the designer came to be seen as the driver of change. |
| 第6回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Fashion looks | Fashion typically enacts competing desires to conform and to be different. However, the social significance of fitting in and standing out can differ in terms of gender, sexuality, class and ethnicity. This class will introduce the idea of the gaze as a way to understand the social significance of fashion in the world. |
| 第7回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Fashion subcultures | This class will draw on subcultural theory to examine the role fashion played in the formation of social and cultural subcultures in the US and Britain in the 1950s and after. |
| 第8回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Orienting fashion | In this class, we will explore the idea of Orientalism (which denotes the way the East is represented as Other by the West) by comparing descriptions of the aesthetics of Vivienne Westwood and Rei Kawakubo in fashion literature and the media. |
| 第9回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Street style | This class will examine Tokyo street fashion as both a local and global phenomenon, with a focus on transcultural exchange and the social and aesthetic differences between subculture and street style. |
| 第10回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Fashion and gender | This class we will examine the relationship between fashion and gender difference, and use the theory of gender performativity to explore how gender difference is not only represented but also contested and transformed through fashion. |
| 第11回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
The clothed body | This class will explore the significance of the clothed body in the world, with a particular focus on cases when clothing is perceived to be adorning the wrong body. |
| 第12回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Fashion and the Internet | In recent years, social media and ecommerce have had enormous impacts on how fashion is dispersed, perceived, produced and distributed. This class will explore how the Internet has changed fashion at both the global and local scales. |
| 第13回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Final Student Presentations | Students will present their final projects. |
| 第14回 | アダムソン グレゴリー デイル
Recap and class discussion | We will the finish the course with a discussion of some of the pertinent issues and themes that have arisen during the course. |