This learner has completed ID verification. Find out more.
Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture
Institut Français de la Mode (IFM)
Under the supervision of Benjamin Simmenauer, "Understanding Fashion: From Business to Culture" aimed to give students and professionals insight into both the cultural and commercial aspects of fashion.
4 weeks, 3 hours per week
Benjamin Simmenauer
Professor of Fashion Theory and Fashion Brands Strategy
Institut Français de la Mode (IFM)
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Develop transdisciplinary knowledge and expertise aimed at understanding the logics of the contemporary fashion field
- Identify the creative models of the different fashion houses and their conception of time
- Explore the trends diffusion models
- Interpret a fashion silhouette
- Explain the construction of consumer behaviour
Syllabus
- 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.
Issued on 26th May 2022
The person named on this certificate has completed the activities in the transcript above. For more information about Certificates of Achievement and the effort required to become eligible, visit futurelearn.com/proof-of-learning/certificate-of-achievement.
This certificate represents proof of learning. It is not a formal qualification, degree, or part of a degree.