This course explores the ways in which objects and material culture embody personal narrative. Moving back and forth from ephemeral traces of events and experiences to the culturally invested luxury goods that create legacy to the objects that facilitate daily life, this class will use, as its primary references, examples that draw from queer and African American cultures to underscore the potential of objects to tell the stories that not only reflect majority traditions and experiences but those of the disenfranchised, the details of whose lives are often obscured. In addition to readings that will provide background for class discussion, student will be asked to play the roles of detectives, archeologists, and curators at various sites around New York City. Each student will also be asked to create an annotated material record that reveals the public and private lives of one individual. That record may consist of texts, objects or any variety of media chosen or designed by the student. This blogs serves as an archive for the work done in the context of this course and related materials that become relevant to this exploration.

Thursday, October 9, 2014

Fashion and Style Section

New York Times,
The article talks about how fashion shows are sponsored by different companies because of the high cost of having a show presented at Fashion Week. This leads to fashion shows displaying not only their design but also the products of the company sponsoring them. An example in the article was fashion designer Richard Nicoll created a collection inspired by tinkerbell. This collection was made because Disney approached Mr Nicoll to collaborate with them, and in turn the show was sponsored by Disney. This shows how even fashion shows are reliant to have sponsors to have their work to be shown. In turn, this also proves the relentless marketing efforts of different companies to be able integrate their products into different industries. 

Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/18/fashion/the-catwalk-serves-as-a-billboard.html?ref=fashion
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