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Fashion Studies is a rising subject at The American University of Paris. The Fashion Track of the MA Global Communications, Department of Communication, Media and Culture was founded in 2010. We launched a in 2020 and are currently developing a Major. The Fashion Studies community at 91视频 is very much part of the global Fashion Studies community that we are aiming to connect with and bring together through collaborations, communications and conferences. Fashion Studies at 91视频 takes place as much inside as outside the classroom. You will find events, profiles, links and resources below 鈥 an impression of how 91视频 fosters collaborative explorations and critical thinking on fashion.

Events
Fashion at 91视频

Fashion Talks at 91视频

Fashion Talks at 91视频 is a series of lectures and conversations curated by Professor Renate Stauss and Professor Sophie Kurkdjian. It brings together different voices, experiences and perspectives in fashion. This year's series is entitled: Between Despair and Hope, the movement and space between these two seemed apt to explore fashion this year 鈥搕hose making and wearing it.

  • - Caroline Evans: Time in Fashion (10 March 2021). (Event Summary)
  • - Giulia Mensitieri:The Most Beautiful Job in the World: Lifting the Veil on the Fashion Industry (9 December 2020). (Event Summary)
Fashion Podcast

鈥 The fashion education podcast

Fashion is a great teacher because it provides a fantastic lens to learn about the world and its people, about history, politics and culture. Join Renate Stauss and , professors of fashion theory and fashion design in Paris and Berlin to discover the most inspiring voices in fashion education, their take on the how and why of learning and teaching fashion, their doubts and hopes, their lessons from fashion.

Fashion Cultures and Histories 鈥 Research Seminar Series

This seminar series aims to deconstruct dominant narratives around 鈥淧aris fashion鈥, to contribute to the re-writing of de-hierarchized and de-centralized fashion histories. To do so, it builds on and brings together seminal research, practices and perspectives.

Digital Mulitlogue on Fashion Education 2024:听"On Grief, Exnovation and the Power of Mutual Learning"

鈥榞rief is not the end of things but rather the dark substrate from which great things can emerge.鈥 Nick Cave (2024) The Red Hand Files, Issue #287, June听

Which practices, ideas and expectations do we need to let go? Which ones are not realistic, timely or constructive anymore in the world we live in? How can we turn anxiety or anger into action? Which practices and ideas do we want to unlearn, and which to preserve, strengthen, or learn afresh? In a field framed as innovative and perpetually new, we want to consider exnovation 鈥撎齮he ending of practices and products. The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024 invites us to come together to grieve 鈥 to听acknowledge, accept 鈥撎齛nd act. Come together to explore the power of mutual learning.听

Come together locally whilst learning from and connecting with global fashion learning communities.

The Multilogue 2021 on Fashion Education

The Multilogue 2021 on Fashion Education 鈥 A Conference on Learning and Teaching Fashion in Theory and Practice is a participatory and outcome-oriented space focused on the learning and teaching of fashion at tertiary level. It aims听to explore and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the field and the practices of fashion education. It aims to foster a greater understanding of its pasts, presents and futures 鈥 methods, values and didactic, pedagogic and epistemological questions. This conference thus seeks to inspire mutual learning, collaborative research and shared action 鈥撎齠ashion educations for NOW.听1鈥2 October 2021, online, organized by Professor听Renate Stauss & Franziska Schreiber.

The Digital Multilogue 2020 on Fashion Education

The The Digital Multilogue 2020 on Fashion Education organized by Renate Stauss & Franziska Schreiber brought 300 fashion educators from 40 countries and 5 continents together 鈥 not just to listen but to meet and start multiple international dialogues. It offered a series of short provocations, a conversation and at the heart of it 18 small-scale workshops 鈥 all generously facilitated by some of the most inspiring voices in fashion education and on the edge of it. The rich Proceedings of the Multilogue 2020 have just been published 鈥撎齟njoy the read!

Workshop: Culture(s) de Mode

is a French research network created in 2018 with the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs to develop research on fashion. Directed by Sophie Kurkdjian, it gathers scholars, curators, archivists, designers, journalists, and students and organizes workshops each month.

Student Activities
Fashion at 91视频

Many 91视频 students are drawn to fashion, whether in their personal lives, through academic pursuits or career goals. During their time at 91视频, students engage in a variety of fashion-related activities that support their aspirations, including clubs, fashion week, journalism and more.

Fashion Courses
at The American University of Paris

The American University of Paris provides several pathways to pursue your academic interest in fashion. As a graduate student, you are able to complete the fashion track in the MA in Global Communications and as an undergraduate student, you can complete a fashion minor. Frequent guest lectures and field trips provide a variety of practical, real-life accounts and experiences of the fashion world to supplement theoretical knowledge gained in the classroom.

Studying Fashion
in Paris

To study fashion in Paris you can just look around 鈥 there are endless conventional and unconventional sources of inspiration, experience and knowledge. Here is a small selection of museums, libraries and archives, for more formal explorations.

Museums
  • (MAD)
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  • , Fondation Pierre Berg茅
  • 鈥撎 Mus茅e de la Mode de la Ville de Paris
Libraries and archives
  • (library at MAD)
  • (library at Mus茅e de la Mode de Cit茅 de Paris)