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Fashion, Body and Garment (beginning fall 2004)Fashion, Body and Garment is a unique program offering students the chance to explore individual projects in these areas, examining the space where these worlds collide, overlap and intersect. Engaging the integration of culture, history and style while examining the process of making, Fashion, Body and Garment, encourages graduate students to investigate inter- and transdisciplinary approaches of garment with regards to architecture, performance, sculpture, objects, painting, fiber and other media, using the body as a foundation for covering and adornment.The department embraces both artists interested in the creative examination of the possibilities of body and garment as modes of expression, and returning professionals interested in pursuing advanced studies in fashion design. The ethos of the department is both poetic/creative and pragmatic. Issues of design, materiality, concept, technology, and industry are considered critically and explored for their possibilities. The emphasis throughout is on high-level creative innovation and the development of strong individual projects. Fashion designers, studio artists, architects and designers, cultural and fashion theorists all contribute to teaching and advising. Individual studio work is complemented by focused seminars around issues in body and garment, and students can access the seminar and studio programs offered by the other design areas (designed objects, design with emerging technologies, visual communications, interior architecture), by related fields such as Hybrid Sculptural practices (Ceramics, Fiber, Sculpture) and by the graduate fine art and academic programs as a whole. Students will be encouraged to collaborate with other areas (such as Exhibition Studies) in developing final presentation and exhibition possibilities. Facilities include studio space, a unique shared nucleus/ workstation equipped with industrial sewing machines, cutting tables, pressing facilities and male and female forms and access to computer labs. The Fashion Resource Center houses a hands-on collection of garments, accessories and materials for study. It also includes a well-focused library of books, videos and periodicals dealing with fashion and garment.
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