Fashion Designer Project Dr. Emily L. Newman For this project, you will have the opportunity to learn about one major, international fashion designer in depth. After extensive research (that includes library work, interlibrary loans, documentary viewing – on sites such as Kanopy), you will strive to become an expert in that designer’s work! Each student will give a presentation pecha kucha style, create a handout for the entire class, and complete a reflection worksheet on their experience. Students will chose from a list of designers (found in the following pages), and post their top choices on a discussion board. No more than five presentations can be scheduled for each day. Each presentation should include the following: - Brief biographical introduction to the designer (including life dates, where they worked, training, how they got started) - Key innovations by the designer (did they invent a style of dress or incorporate new materials?) - How do they work? (haute couture, ready-to-wear, etc.) - How can we recognize their work? (styles, conventions, colors, etc.) Key presentation styles: - Your presentation cannot include any text beyond label information (designer name, title of dress/collection, date, location, materials). - Make sure the small amount of text you use is at least 20pt font so the audience can read it. - Your background should be black with white text. After each presentation, the students can show a 4-8 minute clip of either a fashion show by the designer, an interview, or film clip that help clarifies the designer’s perspective and point-of-view. In addition to your presentation, you will also create a handout to be distributed to the class. Think of this as a sheet that provides a brief but thoughtful introduction to the designer, of which your presentation will enhance and elaborate upon. It should not be a written version of your presentation, rather it should supplement it. If you want to include spaces for note-taking, you can. Your handout must include: - Basic life information on the designer - Pictures and brief descriptions on key moments in fashion throughout the designer’s career - Bibliography - Any information necessary for your classmates - Think about the design of your handout: be creative (maybe it is an infographic) and think carefully about the entire design of the project. Grade Breakdown: Presentation 40%, Handout 30%, Research/Bibliography 20%, Reflection 10% RESEARCH: You are required to have at least FIVE academic sources. - Two of your sources MUST be books - While they might be consulted and included in your bibliography, fashion design websites do not count in your final source total. - Good sources: Books, articles from peer-reviewed journals (Academic articles found on JSTOR for example) - Unacceptable sources: book reviews, encyclopedias, course textbook (if you use this, you can include in your bibliography but it WILL NOT COUNT in your final total of sources), Oxford Art Online, dictionaries, WIKIPEDIA, websites/journals without appropriate sourcing or academic background. If you are unsure about the quality of a source - ASK. All sources must be documented fully in Chicago Manual of Style Formatting, 16th Edition (see the class guide online as well as http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html). BIBLIOGRAPHIES: Bibliographies represent the most basic use of citation that one can/should include in one's papers. Even if you have not utilized any direct quotes from a published text, if you have not used notes you must (for academic integrity and legal reasons) follow up your papers with a list of the sources used to prepare your work. The sources are organized alphabetically (by author or editor, or by title if there is no author cited) on an individual sheet at the end of the paper, with every line after the first of each new source indented at least 5 spaces from the left margin. Here are some examples of how bibliographic sources should be organized according to the bibliographic format: BOOKS: SINGLE AUTHOR AND ANTHOLOGIES Author/editor, last name first. Title italicized. Additional editors if any. Volume or edition if any. City of publication: Name of press, year of publication. Examples: Frueh, Joanna. Erotic Faculties. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. Gibson, Pamela Church and Roma Gibson, eds. Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power. London: British Film Institute, 1993. PERIODICALS: Author's last name first. "Title in quotation marks." Name of journal italicized Volume, number (Date in parentheses): page number/s. Example: Eileraas, Karina. "Witches, Bitches and Fluids: Girl Bands Performing Ugliness as Resistance." The Drama Review: The Journal of Performance Studies 41, no.3 (Fall 1997): 122-139. GALLERY AND AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS: Artist/director if known last-name-first. Name of artwork italicized. Running length if a/v. Institution/production company, year made if known. Medium/source type. Example: Lang, Fritz. Metropolis. 124 minutes. Universal Film A.G (UFA), 1927. DVD. For more information on citation style, see: Turabian, Kate L., A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students by Researchers. 8th edition. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. The Chicago Manual of Style. 16th edition. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing About Art. 10th edition. New York: Pearson, 2010. http://library.osu.edu/sites/guides/chicagogd.php http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html http://www.library.arizona.edu/search/reference/citation-cms.html#cmsbk2 https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/717/01/ If you use a program that formats your bibliography for you automatically YOU MUST PROOFREAD. Those programs make multiple mistakes, and you need to make sure that the information is translating correctly and is matching up exactly as needed. Additionally, we are using Chicago Style 16th Style (note-bibliography format). Sample Bibliography: See below. Note that there is one space between entries, and the works are alphabetized by author’s last name. 2nd+ lines of entries is always indented- author’s name is omitted if repeated. Please follow the formatting exactly. Bibliography Aloi, Giovanni. “September 2009, Zhang Huan @ White Cube.” Whitehot Magazine http://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/2009-zhang-huan-white-cube/1952 (accessed August 14, 2010). Anderson, Laurie. Stories from the Nerve Bible. New York: Harper Collins, 1994. Bad Girls (catalog). Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994. Baddeley, Oriana. “‘Her Dress Hangs Here’: De-Frocking the Kahlo Cult.” Oxford Art Journal 14, no. 1 (1991): 10-17. Bolton, Richard (ed.). The Contest of Meaning: Critical Histories of Photography. Cambridge and London: The MIT Press, 1992. Burgin, Victor. The End of Art Theory: Criticism and Postmodernity. Hampshire and London: Macmillan, 1986. -----. In/Different Spaces: Place and Memory in Visual Culture. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. Chave, Anna C. “‘I Object’ Hannah Wilke’s Feminism,” Art in America 97, no. 3 (March 2009): 104-109+. PECHA KUCHA PRESENTATIONS Each student will give a brief presentation (under seven minutes to be exact) about their thesis document. This should include an overview of what was discussed, including the artists and literature researched and how it connects to your larger artistic project. To talk about the paper, each student will present their paper in the style of pecha kucha (20x20), which is a simple presentation format where you show 20 images, each for 20 seconds. The images advance automatically and you talk along to the images. TIPS: • Insert images as usual, resizing them to your liking. There should be very little text, only images or images their captions/title information. Best practice is to fill the screen unless using space for emphasis. • Avoid writing out a script for your talk. Write a simple outline for the big ideas of each slide. The best situation is when you know your topic so well that you don’t even need an outline. Use the outline for planning purposes, then impress everyone without it when you present in person. • Practice your presentation repeatedly until you get it just right. • Let your slides do some of the work. Don’t give all the backstory – just enough to establish context, and enough to be able to make your point. Remember that your slides can do a lot of your talking for you. As an example, let’s say you wanted to talk about your younger self, and your slide is a photo of you as a kid. Compare a line like “This is a photo of me when I was younger” to something like: “The third grade was the worst year of my life” or “I fell in love for the first time when I was eight” or “As a kid, I loved ice cream sandwiches more than my parents.” • No video or audio is appropriate for this type of presentation. • Choose your images wisely and specifically. This is what the audience will be focusing on, so make sure that your images convey EXACTLY what you want to convey. To set PowerPoint to advance automatically: Select all slides in the left, and then go to Animation, advance slide and set it to 20 seconds. To Set Keynote to advance automatically: Select all 20 slides. Click the Slide Inspector and click the Transition tab. Under Start Transition choose Automatically. Enter a Delay of 20. Helpful resources: https://globaldigitalcitizen.org/how-to-make-great-presentations-with-pecha-kucha http://www.usc.edu/dept/education/CMMR/Pecha_Kucha_TipsResourcesExamples.pdf Designers: Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946) Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) Paul Poiret (1879-1944) Coco Chanel (1883-1971) Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) Cristóbel Balenciaga (1895-1973) DAY ONE DAY Madame Grès (1903-1993) Elizabeth Hawes (1903-1971) Cecil Beaton (1904-1980) Christian Dior (1905-1957) Claire McCardell (1905-1958) TWO Charles James (1906-1978) Emilio Pucci (1914-1992) DAY DAY Pierre Card in (b.1922) Hubert de Givenchy (1927-2018) Sonia Rykiel (1930-2016) Halston (1932-1990) Valentino (b.